The Spool Bird

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This pattern was designed by in 2008, by Michael Fulkerson, who was working as a sewing teacher at Spool Sewing, a fabric store in Philadephia.

Originally designed as a cat toy, a fairly simple 3 dimensional bird. The bird’s design lent itself well to being part of a mobile so to help attract new students to the hand sewing class at the shop Michael made a mobile with several birds perched on sticks and the owners of Spool put it in the window. They took some photos of the mobile and used them to illustrate the pattern which they gave away for free on the Spool Sewing blog. The pattern had “designed by Michael Fulkerson” printed along the top, but otherwise stated no limitation on how it was to be used.

Spool has since closed, and the pattern is no longer available to download.