Crows!

 

I love crows (I feed a small family group that lives in my neighborhood, and they now recognize me and come to my house sometimes to ask for a snack!)

I’ve made several crows using a pattern by a wonderful artist named Ann Wood. Her website is https://www.annwoodhandmade.com/ This past weekend, I helped a friend make her first crow. She also purchased Ann’s darling owl pattern, which I want to try, too.

I love how they turned out. The most recent one has an open beak, which I carved from a forked oak branch. I used some purple feathers to imitate the iridescence of crows’ wings. They are stuffed with wool, and you make the legs with floral wire. Each crow has taken me about 10 hours to construct.

I’ve also purchased and made a robin (using her Songbird pattern) and a mushroom. You can download PDFs of the patterns, or purchase paper patterns. The patterns have a lot of photos as well as written instructions, and they are very easy to follow.