The cardinal is the female bird I have been asked to make over and over again. While I often played with her, the girl’s coloring is so much more subtle than the male’s that I couldn’t find the right felt for the pattern.
This time, I approached the design from a different angle. I chose a tweedy tan color for the body and I “painted” that same felt with blush for the lower wing and with gray eye shadow for the tail and upper wing. Brushing on the powdered color gave it a very subtle look. Enjoy!
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Oh Susan she is lovely! Well done. I need to make her for out tree! Thank you.
Thank you!
So wonderful that you do this for us. I have a pair of cardinals that comes to my bird bath in summer. They always give me a lift.
I am hoping to make this beauty for my tree. If others have completed this project from the pattern, how have you managed to scale it up? My PDF printout seems quite small compared to the chickadee pattern I completed last year.
I may have designed this smaller than earlier patterns. You can try to print at 110% or 120% and experiment with the sizing that way.