My last Christmas post (maybe?)

This is the craft that started my Christmas creating madness and it was almost the end of me! I just wasn't smart enough to simplify them as I should have. I wanted to make an actual angry birds game for my grandchildren. If only I had known that there would be one in stores like Amazon, I could have saved myself hours of work. But I didn't, so I made many of these beanbags for my grandchildren.

I was not capable of designing them so I found this site with a set of patterns. They were much too big, so I copied them at around 50%-67%, but then that caused all kinds of problems. They were sometimes impossible to turn, in such cases as the feather on the red bird's head. They were just too small. Nevertheless they got done and here they are in person.

The black bombing bird...
I made this bigger in size to duplicate his powers.

That bad pig who stole those eggs...

The yellow bird who can be very zippy...

The original red bird...

Once again, the entire clan.

B.T.W. Bryan, this is the clan that you are waiting to arrive.

The reaction...
Worth every moment I spent on it.

Yellow Angry Bird Pillow

When one of my grandsons learned that I was going to make a red angry bird pillow for his brother, he had a request of his own. Would I make him a yellow angry bird pillow? Not surprisingly, the second went together much faster than the first. I have only a few pictures of this sewing project since it uses the same techniques as the red bird pillow. I think I like the yellow angry bird even more than the red. To see the red angry bird pillow tutorial, go here. I cut a 14" square out of a large piece of paper and then folded it in half. I carefully cut a diagonal from one edge to the center on the opposite side (using the fold to know where the center was). I then cut the other side the same way. I ended up with a triangle. I rounded the corners to make sewing easier. I then cut 2 from 1/2 yard of yellow fleece and cut another 4" gusset piece in the same manner as before. I designed the facial features and laid them out before sewing the pillow together as previously explained for the red angry bird. I only stuffed the top half of the beak on this bird. As I said, this is my favorite of the two. Who knows? Maybe I'll find a need to make the rest. We'll see.