I made this sweet little bird from an recycled t-shirt and a pattern from the book Sweater Surgery.  Instead of using fiberfill I used dryer lint, which worked really well except for having to pull some long pieces of hair out of it.  I used the bottom half of a snap for each eye.  The beak is made with a piece of dark t-shirt fabric, but I don’t recommend that since it’s a little floppy.  I’ll either use fabric stiffener or perhaps sew some fabric to this piece, considering it a base, to strengthen it.  I hand stitched all the pieces, which took a few hours while multitasking on other things.