Apologies and Owls!

Writing a blog is very hard!!! I have been asked to cross stitch a baby sampler for a friend’s baby due in February, so I may not have much time for posts but on the plus side I am doing something I enjoy and hopefully she will be very happy with it!

So to apologise for the lack of posts I am going to leave you with some owls. A couple of years ago a friend of mine bought me a ‘make your own owls kit’ (pictured below). They are incredibly cute and easy to make.

So I made my own template inspired by the kit and made a couple of owls of my own. I have one in white and grey that I use as a Christmas decoration and I have made a few in nice bright summer colours and given them to owl enthusiastic friends! You could even make quite a few and string them up like bunting. So here is the template for my own super cute owls:

I made mine with felt because it doesn’t fray and it comes in a massive variety of colours but you could make them from any fabric. Mine are about 10cm by 7cm but you could make them any size you like. I also cut the body in one colour and the wings, eyes and beak in a contrasting colour.

Cut all the pieces out of whatever fabric and colours you are using. I used fabric glue to attach the pupils to the eyes and the eyes to the top half of one of the body pieces. Glue the wings on either side of the bottom of the body piece and glue the beak in the middle of the eyes and wings. It should now look like this:

I then placed the pieces together and blanket stitched around the outside leaving a little gap, I stuffed the owl and them finished off the blanket stitch. There you go, nice easy little owl ready to go as presents or whatever you decide to do with it.

I added a few stitched details to the wings before stitching it together but I don’t think it is needed. I will get some pictures but at the moment the owl I still have is packed away with the Christmas decorations and I can’t look at them again just yet! I will make another one and pop a picture up for you all later!!!

Well, I will let you know when I finish the baby sampler for my friend and hopefully I will put another crafty post up soon.

(Just to say a big thank you to Mr Timeforcrafts for drawing up the templates digitally for you lovely people out there in Blogland as all my templates are old school and on bits of paper in various folders.)