Our Fiber Scraps for the Birds

By Debbie Colgrove, About.com Guide

If you ever find a bird nest on the ground, you'll be amazed at just how good those like critters are at scavenging their building materials. You almost find tarp strings as part of every bird nest in our area... because people use tarps to cover things from the winter weather and then the wind tears apart the tarps. The birds then manage to collect the fibers and use them in their nests.
I made friends with my feathered friends by supplying them with more building material ... and didn't contribute to the landfill in the process!

What You Need:

• A net bag from vegetables such as an onion bag. I've discovered the bags come in various types of mesh or netting. If you've saved up thread, I'm sure the tiny mesh will work fine for the birds to dig out thread. For serger scraps and tiny fabric scraps, the larger holed net bag works great.
• A pile of thread scraps, yarn scraps, ribbon scraps, fabric trimmings or empty the scrap bag from your serger.
• A ribbon or yarn to close the bag and hang the bag

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• What You need to Serve Your Scraps to The Birds
• Fill and Close the Bag
• Hang Your Fabric Scraps for the Birds

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