The possible microscopic realization of interacting boson model {IBM)collective M1 modes is investigated for ' ' Cr and '6'8 6 Fe, using a shell-model space of protons in the I f7&2 orbit and neutrons in the 2p3/2 1 f,zz, and 2p, zz orbits. Distributions of the pair analogues of IBM-2 mixed-symmetry states, and of some g-IBM-2 states, over shell-model eigenstates are explicitly determined. For J =1, the mixedsymmetry SD strength is generally lower than that of the G-pair states, and responsible for most of the low-energy M1 strength. Structures incorporating extended sets of levels, including the M1 states, corresponding to the sd-IBM-2 U(5) DSO(6) &SO(5) dynamical symmetry representations [N -1, 1] {N -1, 1,0) {~) are manifest in the shell-model spectra for ' Fe and Cr. The correspondence with observed levels is discussed.