When my granddaughter was about a year and a half old and my daughter got out the Christmas decorations that year, she came across a couple of white felt beaded birds that I had made for her a number of years before she was married. Well, my granddaughter fell upon those two birds and played with them until the feathers fell out! Something about those birds just spoke to her.
And it was the same thing the next year when my daughter unpacked all the Christmas decorations. So I started making her new ones of different colors each year and she just loves these little birds.
My mother gave me the pattern. In about 1965 she made probably a dozen of these birds and she has had them on her tree ever since. I always liked them, hence my making them for my daughter probably 20 years ago now.
This bird is the 2010 edition of Samantha's Bird. I like to think that maybe someday they will hang on her Christmas tree and maybe another little girl in the family will love them, too.
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