Button Up Birdies 4 - Ornaments - Counted Cross Stitch Pattern - PDF Download

Collect all 12 of Cathy Jean's new monthly ‘Button-up Birdies’, and by next year your Christmas tree will be covered with these adorable ornaments! The May Bluebird is getting ready to settle down to domestic bliss as she feeds her tiny babies a juicy worm under the pink apple blossoms. The eighth Birdie is a glorious Goldfinch picking strawberries under a spray of June blossoms. Summer is coming and the berries are luscious! What a wonderful birdie to make you think of warmer weather.

All Button-up Birdie ornaments are quick and easy to stitch so you can use them for other gifts as well. They are designed with gentle overdyed cottons and many different silks in soft shades. Stitch the dozen and use them in a quilt or wall hanging! Finish the way you see, or use your own imagination!

Collect ALL TWELVE.. watch for the next chart with two more birdies!

May Bluebird

• Design area: 48h x 33w (3.4”high x 2.4” wide)
• Model: 28ct Cashel Linen, 'Dirty Linen'
• Cut fabric: 8"h X 7"w

June Goldfinch

• Design area: 48h x 32w (3.4”high x 2.3” wide)
• Model: 28ct Cashel Linen, 'Dirty Linen'
• Cut fabric: 8"h X 7"w

Suggested Materials

• Gentle Art Simply Wool - Brandy (golds)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Black Crow (blacks)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Blue Jay (blues med dk)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Butternut Squash (yellows lt)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Grape Leaf (greens med)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Gingersnap (coppers)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Maple Syrup (brown med)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Tarnish Gold (old gold)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Tea Rose (pinks)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Presidential Blue (blues dk)
  
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Baby Spinach (greens dk)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Brandy (golds)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Oatmeal (creams)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Bittersweet (oranges)
• Gentle Art Sampler Threads - Tin Bucket (greys)
• DMC #3 Perle Cotton #840 - beige brown
• Weeks #2224 - Squash (yellows dk)
• Weeks #1269 - Chestnut (browns dk)
• Weeks #2258 - Aztec Red (reds)
• SJ Designs petite bead #1838
• Mill Hill seed bead #03501 - gunmetal 
• JJ Micro Mini Round Buttons - pink
• JJ Micro Mini Round Buttons - cream
• JJ Micro Mini Round Buttons - peach lt
• round wood buttons
• 19 gauge wire
• 28ct Cashel Linen, 'Dirty Linen' 
• #24 tapestry needle
• #10 short beading needle

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