Bird mobile

I am making little mobiles to sell at a local craft fair. They're all hand-sewn (because I'm not that neat on the sewing machine). I used a simple straight stitch around the edge in a contrasting embroidery thread.

The finished mobile

I used a variety of old fabrics with complimentary colours / textures / patterns.
This little birds are made from the fabrics old, off-cut and previously loved.

I cut out a paper template for the bird's body and for the wings, pinned it onto the fabric, cut it out then sewed it together. When I got almost all the way around I stuffed the bird with 'cushion stuffing' (not sure what the technical word for that is) and finished it off.

So there it is, my bird-y mobile!

Sky baby mobile

Recently two of my friends made a brand new tiny person. I wanted to make something nice for them so I got out my sewing kit and started stitching. We decided on a mobile and wanted it to have a sky theme. So we did a kite and a rainbow...

a sunshine...

hello Mr Sun

 and a lightning cloud (because it's good to learn about good weather and bad)

Mr Lightning-Cloud

and then I threaded them onto ribbon and threaded the ribbon onto an embroidering and there you have it.

An awesome sky themed baby mobile!