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PRETTY BIRDS: 18 Simple Projects to sew and love
By Virginia Lindsay

This is a darling book perfect for you to use all those fabric scraps or dive into your felted wool sweater stash and stitch up a cute flock of birds. Not only can you use these little birds for decoration there are tons of ideas on how to use them in functional ways. The publisher is providing 5 copies of the book you can enter to win by leaving a comment here, Running Press Facebook page here: http://gvwy.io/r47otz , enter using the Rafflecopter giveaway or popping on over to these blogs and entering there!

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3/2 Lorelei’s Blog

3/3 FaveCrafts

3/4 S is for Sewing

3/5 Lori Greenberg

3/6 Killing It As A Grown Up

3/8 Pretty Things Blog

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Comments

  1. It would be great to teach my 9-13 year old kids in Thackerville 4H Sewing Club!

  5. they are so cute! I would love to win this for me, lol. at the rafflecopter it says leave a blog post comment below but it won’t let me do anything. maybe it means here? I keep my fabric scraps, I haven’t found anything to do with them just yet.

  7. Since I’m not on Facebook, it looks as if I am limited to posting comments on the blog tour for entries. I would love to win this book. That owl on the cover is adorable!

  8. I would love to have a copy of this book and try my hand at making some of the birds. Of course, I would want to embellish them with embroidery and beads if possible, lol. Thanks for the opportunity.

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