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Mary G
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Posted: March 06 2007 at 8:24am \| IP Logged

Jennifer over at As Cozy as Spring had a mention of this cool embroidery project from Martha Stewart: state birds (this link will give you the basic embroidery directions). Here's a link to the pdf of the birds. These line drawings are so clear you could even use the pdf as a coloring book for state birds!

Pretty cool, huh? Thanks Jennifer!

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Posted: March 06 2007 at 12:51pm \| IP Logged

Thanks for the links! I hope that a project like this will help with the "can't wait for spring" fever that's going around the house.

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Christine

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Posted: March 06 2007 at 1:05pm \| IP Logged

Wow, those are great pictures! How would you transfer that to your material? Is that even what you call it? LOL

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Posted: March 09 2007 at 3:39pm \| IP Logged

Mary, I can't stop thinking about these bird patterns. Pillows, a quilt... Must make something!

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Posted: March 10 2007 at 7:34am \| IP Logged

Theresa in MN wrote:

Wow, those are great pictures! How would you transfer that to your material? Is that even what you call it? LOL

Theresa, you could do it a couple of ways -- print out on your computer and then trace onto the fabric (using carbon paper you can get at the fabric store)
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you could cut a piece of material to fit your printer, iron it to a piece of baking parchment, and then feed this manually into your printer -- sounds crazy, but it works! Then you just peel off the parchment and stitch.

I just really liked the simple lines but detailed pictures she had in the set -- and very cool that it's all the birds so you could do a whole unit on this!

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