Fabric birdhouse decorations – Don’t you love walking into homes with exciting things on the wall? It’s often what makes a house unique and homely.

The stuff on the wall or the mantle gives the home personality. It doesn’t just have to be pictured on the wall. You can hang things like these gorgeous fabric birdhouses.

A fabric birdhouse looks fantastic as a wall decoration and costs little. I made several fabric birdhouses at once and displayed them in a cluster. They look great.

How to Make Homemade Fabric Birdhouses to Decorate Your Home

To make one of the fabric birdhouses even more special, I used the fabric of an old favourite patterned shirt.

For another fabric birdhouse, as I love to upcycle jeans, I made one of my birdhouses in denim with fabric with a bit of a Scandinavian feel.

*To embrace the tropical trend, I have since updated the Birdhouse with a new tropical fabric birdhouse. It uses tropical fabrics, and it has an entirely different roof from this one.

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What You Need to Make Fabric Birdhouses

• Stiff cardboard (I use old Amazon packaging)
• Fabrics – preferably more than one pattern
• Wadding /batting, you are best using a thin one.
• Glue gun or Fabric Mod Podge glue
• Crewel Wool or embroidery thread
• Embroidery needle
• Scissors or rotary cutter
• Twig for perch

How to make the Fabric Birdhouses

These birdhouses were made from an old cardboard box, so they featured under B in the A to Z of upcycling crafts.

First, cut out all the bits for the birdhouses.

1.. Cut the cardboard into seven pieces according to the template. (Fabric Birdhouse template pdf download). You can make the Birdhouse the same size as the template or change it to your preferred size.

2. Next, using the template, cut out the wadding. You only need wadding for the Birdhouse’s front, back, and sides. Then w,ith glue, stick this wadding to the appropriate bits of cardboard.

3. Using something small and round like a shot glass or large coin, draw a circle on the front of the Birdhouse.

Cut out this circle to make the entrance. Directly below this circular entrance, pierce the wadding and cardboard to make way for a twig perch.

4. Cut out a fabric piece for each of the seven cardboard pieces. Use the template as your guide b,ut allow at least a 1cm border for each piece of fabric.

Next, the glueing bit …

5. There should be eight cut pieces of fabric. Glue these to the appropriate pieces of card by wrapping around the card and glueing the overlap on the back of the card.

6. Next, cut the fabric at the front of the Birdhouse to be tucked into the circular entrance. Blanket stitch around this hole. Pierce the material where you made a hole for the perch and stuck your twig in it.

Putting the fabric birdhouses together..

7. Hand-stitch the front and back to the sides of the fabric birdhouses with crewel wool (or embroidery thread). A basic stitch that will join the pieces is all needed. You can either loosely stitch the birdhouses’ top and bottom or glue them.

Top Tip: Try not to make your stitches too neat. The childlike style of the stitching adds to the charm of these birdhouses.

8. To finish off, bend the roof piece to create a pitched roof. Attach the roof to the top of the Birdhouse with glue and secure it with pins whilst the glue dries. At the same time, pop in and glue the base and top pieces.

Finishing off the birdhouses..

All you need to finish the Birdhouse is a little fabric bird to clip. Other decorations, such as a pom-pom trim, can be added.

As mentioned, I made one out of denim scraps, too, as I love repurposing and upcycling my old jeans.

These fabric birdhouses make a gorgeous homemade gift. I have had several requests to make them for family and friends.

By making them in fabrics, they are effortless to personalize, which you know will reflect the decor and taste of the person you’re making them for.

I warn you; they are an addictive craft. I have made lots of birdhouses over the years. They do look good together in a group. Using different fabric scraps is fun; they are an excellent thing to make with fabric scraps; you’ll find many more fun hand-sewing crafts here.

By the way, if you are a bird lover, then you might want to check the unique collection of free vintage bird prints on Pictureboxblue.com

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