Song Bird Mask

The third in my Bird Mask Series.

Adult
14”w x 10”h cm /35.6 cm w x 25.4 cm h
G hook/4 mm
1.5 oz/42.5 g worsted weight yarn
Gauge 4 rows/5 sc = 1”/2.54 cm

Child
F hook/3.75 mm
0.8 oz/22.7 g DK weight yarn
Gauge: 6 rows/6 sc = 1”

I love working with the Etimo hook G -- wish I had one in other sizes.
The purple pink is Elann's Peruvian High land Wool The Firecracker Heather
and Fedora are Knit Picks Wool of the Andes.

AKUA BIRD MASK

I was emailing my sister about a new "friend", a red cardinal that chats, sings nearby,
and makes his glorious red self visible. There was another, a larger female that i sued
to see outside my kitchen window regularly. It took awhile for me to figure out what she was, and that she was a female of the same species. Last night this idea cam to me and I couldn't stop until I finished it. I took a few notes along the way, but at a certain point it's easier to just make it than to write.

Flying Bird and Hope's Birds

I saw a bird that was knit, that I coveted. I searched the web for bird patterns, knowing I had looked before, and found the Peace Dove and Caroline's Birds.

http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com/birds.html
I did a riff on Caroline's Birds, unable somehow to follow the pattern, and invented my own wings. I've yet to do the Peace Dove.


http://web.archive.org/web/20070624023221/http://home.wideopenwest.com/~sag55/dove.html

But both of these handsome objects are much bigger than the little flying pin I saw. And I am so delighted that after three tries, I have a version that I like and a pattern that I've written.



Watching the return to Narnia and Prince Caspian last night, I worked on the pattern for the sitting bird, which
reminded me of my parents, and following Marlo's lovely example, I'm naming the pattern Hope's Birds for my mother, whom I love and miss greatly. She was an exquisite creator of wearables with an unerring eye. The Hope's Birds pattern will be posted soon and for free.