There is a blue jay in my yard...

...that sits on the fence and taunts poor little Maddie during her outside time. Maddie is an indoor cat who absolutely loves to eat clovers and because I love her, I let her go outside (highly supervised) to eat clovers. Since spring has sprung, the blue jays are out in full force sitting there starring and squawking at Maddie.. It's quite annoying. And Maddie just sits there and chatters at it. I'm sure she would attempt to attack it if I weren't so quick to usher her in once the stare down starts, but really I don't need to deal with a dead bird, or more likely a pecked cat.

Last time I was home my mom was in the middle of re-decorating her bathroom. She had found a craft on a blog that made these little three dimension birds out of scrapbook paper. Needless to say, those things turned out really ugly. That blogger? She must be a paper magician. I felt like I just got fooled into buying something from an infomercial, and all I had to show for it were gluey hands. Anyways, these paper birds were adapted to a fabric version...and were suppose to be easier. So out of curiosity my mom went and found the original fabric pattern...harder my ass! The patter can be found at Spool Sewing.

I must still be learning, because my bird was no where near as cute as the examples on Spool Sewing's sight (so much better than my lame paper one though!)...but it works, especially for my purpose. Because, unlike my mom who wanted her's to decorate, I wanted mine to give to Maddie. I wanted to make a cat toy. And I did. I decided to use some of the leftover fabric from the apron I made for my mom. I used the red fabric for the body and the fortune cookie fabric for the belly.  Unfortunately, the camera is still dead so no pictures of it today. Don't fret though, one day there will be photographic evidence, as I plan to make some more! And I may even include homegrown catnip in those!

But what's a post without a picture? Here's Maddie. She's a cat.