The Non-Sewer's Adventures with Colorful Stuffed Birds

In my quest for more bird-oriented projects, I stumbled across this cute stuffed-mobile project from Spool Sewing:

Totally adorable, right? Well, I don't have a baby, but I could definitely make something like this for ME! Luckily, Spool even offered a free pattern for the stuffed birds that you can download here.

Ok, now I'm gonna need to detour here a bit.

As we all know, I am a NON-sewer, so the instructions on the pattern were completely useless to me. The bird is in two pieces - the body and the belly. The instructions basically say to pin one piece to the other and sew together. Say...what? Pin what to what? I seriously sat staring at my two pieces of fabric for over an hour trying to figure out how to sew this damn bird. Finally, I decided to stop overthinking it and just take the instructions literally and just sew the two pieces together. Uh, yeah...

...I sewed the bird's belly to his back... Whoops.

So, anger ensued. Why would Spool offer this awesome pattern and then leave us non-sewers stranded?! Then it hit me--if I was confused, maybe someone else out there in the blog-o-sphere was, too? Or maybe, just maybe, someone wrote a step by step tutorial...? Off to Google! And, there, amidst all of the other useless links, was this one from Struggle Sews a Straight Seam. Pictures and step by step instructions for all of us without a scrap of sewing knowledge. Exit anger, enter calm and appreciation for the talented blogger who took the time to write the tutorial!

So, of course I sewed up a bunch of birds. At first I stitched a bunch of little ones:

And then a big mama one...

Bents even got one that didn't turn out!

I'm still working on trying to get them look a little better. I can't seem to get their breaks to turn out pointy enough...they sort of look like little stuffed horses with tails how they are now. And, I'm not really too sure what I'm actually going to DO with them once I have a bunch of them stitched up...grown-up mobile, perhaps??