Ribbon
Medium: Gift wrap ribbon

The weaving felt less elegant than it looks, more like deliberate entanglement.

Pattern is from a little site called icandream.com.

It calls for ribbon that is 3/4″ to 1″ wide and 9-12″ long. Most of the ribbon’s length is cut into four strips, stopping 1.5″ from the end to make the wings. I didn’t have any ribbon wide enough, so I laid four pieces of regular gift wrap ribbon side by side and joined them on the back with a 1.5″ long piece of mailing tape.

There’s no tape keeping the woven body of the bird together. Everything was woven loosely and then tightened up by pulling one ribbon at a time.

I inserted a pipestem cleaner from the Umbrella challenge, and my ribbon bird is now living happily with the umbrellas in my JoyCats vase.