Supplies you will need:

• fabric scraps for body and wings
• yarn for hanging loop
• yarn for birdy legs
• decorative button for loop
• two buttons for eyes
• two buttons for feet
• embroidery floss for wing
• poly-fil or wool for stuffing

Cut out two body pieces and two wing pieces using the pattern pieces. Center the actual size wing pattern piece on the back side of the wing fabric. Fold the fabric around the pattern piece and iron. Slip the paper pattern piece out. I’m sure there are better ways of doing this but it is what I ended up doing, feel free to do this however you wish. Place the wing on the right side of the body piece and using a running stitch, attach the wing to the body (I removed two strands of the embroidery floss and used the rest so that it would not be too thick). Make sure to leave a small opening in order to put some stuffing into it. Repeat for the other side. Add a small amount of stuffing into the wing and then finish stitching it up. Crochet a chain of approx. 40 stitches (you can make it shorter or longer depending on where you want to hang it) using your hanging loop yarn. When you chain your last stitch, using a slipstitch, connect it to the chain about 2/3 of the way down. Finish it off leaving a tail long enough to stitch your button on. Using the tail, thread it through your decorative button and secure it to the chain behind the button. Crochet another chain using your leg yarn (I was using a thicker yarn so I only needed four stitches) to the length that you want. Finish it off leaving a tail long enough to stitch a button on. Thread the tail through your birdy feet button and secure to the chain behind the button. Repeat for the other leg. Place bird bodies right sides together and sandwich the decorative hanging loop in the middle. You want the single chain (the bottom, not the handle part) peeking out the top of the birdy head. Pin around the birdy making sure that the hanging loop is in the middle so as not to be accidentally stitched when joining the two sides together. Using a 1/4” seam allowance, machine or hand stitch all the way around the bird leaving an opening at the bottom big enough to turn and stuff the bird. Turn the bird right side out and stuff. I used a small chopstick to make sure the stuffing filled out the beak and tail. Take a needle and thread that will blend in with your main body fabric and start stitching up the hole making sure to add the legs in as you go. Take a moment to breathe, we’re almost done. Grab your eye buttons and some thread that matches the buttons. I stitched the eyes by holding both buttons in place and starting at one side, going through the button, through the head, and through the other button and just stitched them both on at the same time. When I was done I wrapped the tails of thread around the buttons to hide them. You are now done with your birdy. I hope you enjoy him.