The Bower Bird has Landed!

Ooooooooooooooo this is more than a weeny bit exciting, don't you think???!!!!

More than a year and a half has passed since I first created and shared this design.

So many of you have waited extremely patiently for me to arrive at pattern-sharing time, and there have been a few hitches and delays along the way. Your patience and understanding has been very, very much appreciated.

I've been working very, very hard this week taking lots of additional photographs, re-working some elements of the finished design, trying to remember long forgotten details (how did I make that sunshine?!).

And while I have grafted, I have thought a lot about the process of designing, creating, sharing and  inspiring. Putting it all out there into the Big Wide World so that these little crochet birds become very much more than the written lines of a pattern.

They turn into a wonderful, joy-filled Global Connection, something that I hope will bring creative happiness to many hundreds of you all over the world.

I like to think about you making your very own Bower Bird, selecting colours, working those stitches, creating a piece of decorative crochet that will make you smile broadly.

I want you to have as much fun as I have! I want you to jump up and down with excitement when your first bird hatches!!

So......I have spent countless hours writing up a full-blown tutorial for this project. I warn you now that it is very, very long. No detail has been left unexplained. There are ninety nine pictures. And over five thousand words. I want you to feel like I am sat right next to you, chatting through the pattern to you, helping you every step of the way. I am with you in spirit, I am right there in your hooky hand. Enjoy.....I really hope you enjoy every single minute.

The pattern is HERE. Yaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the original Bower Bird ta-dah post is HERE, in case you feel like you wish to revisit.

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ps I thought you might like to see ALL the Bower Birds that have been made in my studio workshops this year. Thank you SO MUCH to all of my lovely workshop ladies for working my pattern so beautifully and encouraging me to share it here on my blog. Your flock of birdies will provide a lasting visual inspiration here on Attic24............

Oh, and one last thing.....I've not yet had time to create a printer friendly version of the pattern, but my lovely hubby tells me it's possible to make a PDF pattern file which printers approve of, he says he'll help me do it. I hope you can be patient a little longer for that technical jiggery pokery to happen. At the moment the tutorial is in no way printable I'm afraid, unless you wish to make a Bower Bird Book, it is waaaay too long. But I promise I will do the PDF thingy as soon as I can.

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♥...more little snippets from the Attic...♥

About the Bower Bird

French Bower Bird :: Ta-dah!

Comments

[Kellie]

I love these!! Thank you so much! I can't wait to make some!!!

[suely gomes]

Seus trabalhos são muito lindos Parabéns

[Mary Bickford]

Your blog is a joy to read - always! I don't crochet, but love seeing all your projects. I have told many ladies I know that crochet, to check out your blog!

[Silvana]

Thanks for the tutorial Lucy! Your Bower Bird's so adorable ♡♡♡
Silvana

[Karen]

Thank you!!!

[Carolyn Jackson]

Hi Lucy, Thank you and J so much for such a great pattern, I was able to print out the pattern and watch on my tablet as well and I am thrilled to be able to say a bower bird has now landed at my place and has pride of place sitting atop several crochet blankets, he has also been photographed. !! Thankyou for all your hard work.
Cheers from NZ Carolyn.

[Mink]

Thank you! I've been looking forward to this pattern so much - thanks to your other half as well for pdf-ing it :)

[Babben]

Just love your birds :-)

[Rachel]

Oh my word, sooooo excited. I can't wait to start this little bird, the ironing pile is definitely going to have to wait 😀😀😀😀. Thank you so much, I have learnt such a lot since following you and feel totally inspired x

[Stella]

WOW! Fantastic Lucy - 35 pages of Heaven!
I'm off to peruse & have a cuppa.
Enjoy your cup of coffee (Donation on it's way) xxxxx

[Simple Things]

Thanks soooo much Lucy!! You are one fabulous Lady. I shall have no time to make this now the summer hols are looming but will await this make in September when the post holiday blues tend to hit! Am shouting you a coffee or two by way of thanks for your generosity ;o) J9 x

[Jo]

A big thank you Lucy. I appreciate the hours you give to doing things like this. Jo :-)

[victoria]

Love the Bower Birds. Will certainly download the PDF when it's ready. I will have to learn how to crochet in order to make it but learning that craft is on my list. Just now I'm working on learning to knit.

[Louise]

I love your blog Lucy, as does my sister.
Looking at the array of birds I realize it would be a fabulous way to represent our beautiful Australian parrots. The royal blue and crimson, for example, is the Crimson Rosella to a tee! Louise, Queensland, Australia

[freddie]

thankyou so much Lucy for the bower bird pattern. My clever other half helped to print off the relevant pages. As you say the whole post printoff would just about be a book. Off now in the hot hot hot spanish weather to make my first birdie. I plan to make a flock of them and hang them from my shady fig tree, each with a bell attatched to bring me joy when I sit out of the sun Lots of love F.

[Devika]

Thank you, Lucy! :)

[lee]

thank you, Lucy.

[Kathy]

Thank you, Lucy! You have an amazing generous spirit. You are spreading so much crochet goodness around the world. That is powerful!

[Kim W]

Squee, Yay and Hugs to you! Thank you so much. I am so excited to try this! Your work is creative and inspiring, and your generosity is wonderful. Words cannot express how grateful I am not just for the Bower bird, but for all that you do. I know J and the Little People must be quite proud.
hugs,
Kim W.
p.s. My mandala did not make it to Yarndale this year, but my prayers and good wishes are still with you.:)

[JULIE CARTWRIGHT]

Thank you for sharing Lucy, I have not started mine yet but plan to make some at the weekend.
best wishes
Julie.C

[Cathy at The House with The Blue Door]

Thank you Lucy for your generosity and hard work. I won't be able to start a Bower Bird until next week when the school holidays start, but I'm already planning colour combinations - can't wait! x

[Robina]

You deserve an award for services to crochet - a CBE, MBE or maybe we'll just make you a Dame!

[sooz]

Thank you SOOOO much for sharing your pattern, I can't wait to make my own bower bird!

[Amanda from the US]

Hi Lucy! Thank you for sharing your creativity and your life with all of us out here. Your pictures of England are beautiful. I've been twice but never to your neck of the woods. I have been crocheting all my life. When I happened upon your blog I had a life-changing "duh" moment. The colors! The colors! It was one of those moments when the obvious smacks you right in the head!! Your blog has gotten me out of the acrylic-blah-Vanna-White-ripple-afghan rut I've been in. Already, I've whipped out a Garden Granny Square blanket for my granddaughter, a Jolly Bag, and yesterday two Bower Birds. Thank you! Enjoy some coffee on me. Wish I were there to share it with you!

[Iris]

Yay,thank you so much for sharing this pattern, I can't wait to try it. I've recently made one of your little birdies to hang up and it was so much fun. Making these birds may well become my holiday project...