Cake Toppers...practise 1

Ok so I bought a wedding magazine, I know HUGE mistake, everywhere says don't buy them because they set an unrealistic standard with lots of money to be spent. It is true.

However, I did find these adorable little cake toppers...

cute right? so I found them for sale on this fab website called www.notonthehighstreet.com
Link for the lovely birds... http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/thecottonpotter/product/personalised-fabric-bird-wedding-cake-toppers

If you clicked that link above then I'm sure you will have made a small audible gasp at the price...£140!!!!! Yes I appreciate they are hand made but the are 2 small fabric birds...they wanna be made of solid silver for that price.

So I endeavour to make some myself which are similar (not identical) So first to hone my needle skills I decided to make a rough outline of a fabric bird to see if I could get a general shape.

((before you comment on this shoddy work it was just a 'shape' practise - I loosly hand stitched together just to get an idea and I made if from felt (which is quite stretchy) will need to try some in various fabrics to see what works.

Bird shape template

Cut me out some shapes

Add some wings

 

Stitch together

After much tugging and pulling a little hollow right-way-round bird shell

Bit o'stuffing to plump it out

General bird shape

 

Beak needs to be pointier but you get the idea!