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Flock Bird Mobile - Free Knitting Pattern

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Height: approx. 42 inches For each of my three children, my sister’s gift to the newborn was a mobile to hang over the crib. Her first baby was born in December and it’s my turn to be auntie and to provide the mobile. Since it’s baby who spends most time looking at the mobile, my first design consideration was that it should be interesting to look at from a baby’s-eye view, below. One of my favorite spring-time activities is watching the birds as they go about the busy business of courting and nest building up in the branches of the trees in my backyard. So inspired, I composed the mobile of branches and birds for my new niece to look up at. I disguised the structural parts of the mobile as tree branches using I-cord twigs and garter-stitch leaves. From the branches, colorful birds hang by crochet chains. No two birds are alike, but they are all worked in different combinations of the same eight colors. By substituting a different palette, this mobile could fit in well with any nursery décor. I imagine a version with white birch branches, and baby pastels for the leaves and birds would look beautiful, too. You can use any combination of colors you like for your birds. This is an ideal knit-from-stash project because it uses small amounts of many different colors, and as long as they are of similar weights, they don’t need to be the same yarn. For the branch and leaf colors, 100 yards is more than enough, and for the other colors, 50 yards each is plenty. If you wanted to buy yarn for the project, you could substitute Wool of the Andes in Chocolate, Daffodil, Hollyberry and Winter Night for the Lamb's Pride, the Cascade 220, the Swish Superwash and the now discontinued Blueberry colorway, and the total project cost would be under $20, even with the dowel rod.
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