I am absolutely in love with birds. In fact, my username and the name of my blog is a reference to magpies, my favourite bird: pica is the genus of magpies! When I started making crochet patterns, I knew that I wanted to make birds somewhere down the line. And I thought a set of bird-themed coasters would be a cute idea!

And thanks to the book Birds of Alberta by Chris Fisher and John Acorn (a book I pretty much lived by when I was younger) I’ve got a whole bunch of ideas for different birds to turn into coaster form.
So the first in the Bird of Alberta Coasters line: the Black-Capped Chickadee! A staple of Albertan (and much of North America) life, these cute little buggers are a common sight even in cities. I think my favourite time to spot them is in the winter, when they turn into little fluffy puffballs.

I won’t be releasing these patterns as individual printable PDFs because I intend to bundle them up in my very own Bird of Alberta book. So please wait for that!