yarn birds!
Yarn crafting but rather differently than I've mostly had around here, to be sure!
It was the first library crafting thing I'd been to in . . . a lot of years, really, back at the beginning of December.
An 'everyone' age event, which is probably mostly aimed at 'sure bring your children of any age and also do stuff yourself' honestly - I was the only adult who came alone >.>; - but the librarian running it was super nice and happy to see me and I didn't feel uncomfortable!
(Which is extra nice since it was the first one I'd gone to; if I make it back to one at that library/run by that person again I may actually thank her for being so great about it, I've been to a good few more library events now and had a lot of fun.)
There were like four different crafting stations of different kinds of things (), and outside there was apple cider (non-alcoholic, to be clear XD), and a dulcimer group doing a small concert, which we could hear in the craft room!
I, ah, didn't make my birds the way the instructions suggested:
(I felt the tail needed more, and the legs were a bit odd. I tried adding a hanging loop but . . . that also didn't hang right any way I tried it; I could have made it work but ehhh.)
. . .also the legs in that picture are definitely not pipe cleaners. XD
We had cardboard bird shapes, a tub of yarn, bags of fake feathers, felt, googly eyes, and glue. And a few other things; the pompom I used on the yellow bird came from a pinecone station nearby.
Red is my favourite colour and I started with that!
(After digging through for basically every red feather I could find in the bag. Shreds everywhere.)
Finished up with much less difficulty than that curved body section! (I wound up overlapping the yarn like on a wound yarn ball, which made a 'wing' fold, to tuck the feathers into there.
(The librarian running it oohed delightedly when she saw it; it's a cardinal! it's recognisably a cardinal! At the end, when we were tidying up, she asked if she could take a picture of all three of my birds.)
Blue-grey with a variety of blue and green feathers for the second one, partly because I couldn't find enough blue feathers. . .
I also put more shaping into the white face, of course. And smaller eyes, to fit the size better (in my opinion).
That one was given to my brother.
This is what the bases looked like!
They were cut/burned with a big machine at the biggest library branch apparently? (It has a lot of maker space and tools/equipment.) They smelled like scorched wood. XD
The felt is cut to fit the head there to add stability for gluing the feathers to the crown, mostly.
And this yellow one, with their fluffy crown, I made last and finished up right as librarian announced she needed to start cleaning up in about five minutes. They got sent off to my friend @dawen!
(I feel like you can definitely see the progression of me figuring out what works best and looks best on the birds. XD)
Meanwhile the cardinal. . .
He's propped with some oracle decks on a set of wall shelves right outside my bedroom door!
(I put him there temporarily in December. I have yet to put him anywhere else. . .)
Yes, yes, side-eye me all you want, sir. >.>
I'll keep him both because I think he's cute actually! And . . . it's a happy memory, that evening itself and that it's what gave me the confidence to keep going to more library events, and branching out into other going out to Community things!
