Sparrow's
Cottage
Paper mache or wooden bird house (4” x 4” x 7”)
22” dowel
White craft paint
Hunter green bias tape-2 pkgs.
Yellow bias tape-2 pkgs.
1/6” Black satin ribbon-4 yds.
Scroll braid-1/4 yd.
Yellow organdy ribbon-5 yds.
6” x 8” fusible interfacing Grid
Quilter pins
Silk English ivy
Ceramic pot
Styrofoam®
Spanish moss
Hot glue gun & glue sticks
Tacky glue
Craft wire
Birds
Silk flowers
8” x 10” foam board
1. Paint bird house and dowel with white paint. All areas that are not going to be covered with bias tape will need a second coat. (See photo) Let dry.
2. To create claboards on house, begin glueing first row of bias tape at bottom edge of bird house, starting at back corner. Glue tape around entire perimeter of house. Cut tape.
3. Continue gluing tape row by row until you reach the roof, overlapping tape as you go. (See photo)
4. Measure the corners of your house from the bottom edge to the roof line. Use this measurement to cut four lengths of bias tape.
5. Glue these to the four corners of your house to hide edge. (See photo)
6. Cut front door opening of house and small opening for perch.
7. Cut 3 inches from painted dowel.
8. Glue end of dowel and push into perch hole.
9. Glue scroll braid around door opening and perch.
10. Glue a strip of green bias tape around entire perimeter of base of house.
11. Trim around roof line with yellow bias tape to hide raw edges of claboards. (See photo)
Pinwoven Roof:
Our roof surface area is 6 x 8. Be sure to meaure your roof before cutting materials. The finished weaving should fit on top of the roof only. If the dimensions of your roof are larger than ours, allow for that when purchasing the fusible interfacing and foam board. Also, you may need to make extra copies of grid and tape them together to accomadate your project.
1. Center grid on foam board.
2. Center interfacing, fusible side up, over grid and pin.
3. Cut 17 - 7” pieces of black satin ribbon. These are your warp strips.
4. Lay each warp strip between grid lines and pin ends in place. Use pin dots on grid as your guide and be sure to angle pins outward from fusible interfacing.
5. Thread shuttle with green bias tape and weave through the warp - over, under, over, etc. Once bias tape is woven through all warp strips, cut tape leaving 1/2” on each end. Slide strip down warp to bottom of pattern at pins.
Bird House Assembly:
1. Cut a piece of styrofoam to fit in the bottom of clay pot and hot glue in place.
2. Find center of styrofoam, hot glue one end of dowel and push into styrofoam.
3. Wrap organdy ribbon around top rim of pot. (Approximately 1 yard)
4. Find center of bottom of bird house and make a hole.
5. Insert dowel into hole in bird house and slide house down until dowel hits roof.
6. Insert ivy stem into styrofoam and arrange around dowel and house.
7. Hot glue flowers to ivy. (See photo.)
8. Hide styrofoam with spanish moss.
9. Tie a bow with remaining ribbon and tie off with wire. Attach bow to pot.
10. Decorate house with birds.
Grid for Pinwoven Roof
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