Baby Bird Birth Sampler

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Congratulations to my friend and his new baby. I finished this in January.

The original pattern here had green birds and I changed them to Eastern Bluebirds. It was pretty fun to figure out how to do the female vs male plumage on those, and then the babies have yet another configuration before their full colors come in. I changed most of the rose colors and then obviously added the baby text. I changed a bit of the stitch placement so there's a lot more partials and less color "spilling" out of the outlines.

Featured in my Flosstube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cFS7rymGt4

The last piece on here... I wish I had more, like, definitive answers for where this pattern originated from. It's a magazine called The World of Cross Stitching but I took that original pattern and I redid a bunch of the colors for it so this is the other birth sampler that I finished. And this is a surprise for the mom. So I changed up all the colors on the roses, I changed the colors of the birds, this is stitched - again, the camera's not going to like it - but it's stitched on sparkle fabric (Oh! You can kind of see!) that I actually bought so that I could stitch the Hannah Alexander, uh, those small sewing motifs. I bought this fabric for that. And then, he had a baby, and I was like, "Well, put all of that aside, you know, for months, because I have to stitch this for your kid."

Color Total: 37
Size: 7.5 x 7.5 inches
Time: 48 hours
18 Count White Opalescent Aida

Pattern by https://www.etsy.com/shop/worldcrossstitching/ with modifications by me