Hello Internet!
April here, to show you how to create your very own decorative owl!
Here I have created an easy step by step tutorial for you guys to follow
Tutorial!
Estimated making time: 1.5 hours
( this was me taking my time, simultaneously watching the dan and phil show on radio one, so I was slightly distracted ;D)
(lighting in my room is awful, sorry)
What You Will Need;
(btw, all these products can
be found in your local haberdashery store and/or hobby craft)
2x black buttons
2x white thick felt ‘eyes’
1x cream thick felt ‘face’
1x brown triangle
2x grey thick ‘bodies’
2x fabric ‘wings’
2x thick felt ‘wings
1x fabric tummy
1x felt heart
1x handful of stuffing
not forgetting the thread
Obviously you can change the
colours of any of the materials needed to create your owl, (its down to
personal taste) I just used what fabric I had left in my scrap fabric box. You may
also need a hot glue gun/ pritt stick, although I have created the whole
project through hand stitching.
Step One- The Body
You will need to blanket
stitch the sides of the owl together leaving a hole to pop in the stuffing, alternatively you could stuff with potpourri if you want a beautiful smelling
owl.
You then obviously finish stitching up.
Step Two- The Wings and Eyes
To make the wings, put you fabric wing and felt wing shapes together,
and blanket stitch around them. Follow this step again for the other wing too.
For the eyes, sew the button on to the white felt circle to
make the eye, and then make stitches, like spokes of a wheel from the button
around the edge of the white felt circle. This I feel makes the eyes more owl
like. Follow this step again for the second eye
This is a front and back view of what your little owl should
look like now J
Step 3 –Putting The Face Together
For this step you will need to either hot glue gun the eyes
to the face shape or sew it, like I have. Then hand stitch the triangle shape
to the face as shown creating its mouth.
Step 4- Putting It All Together
For this part you can stick together your owl with either a
pritt stick or hot glue gun, however you can also hand stitch, which I did once
I discovered my glue had
Dried out.
I used a basic stitch to put together the tummy and the body
of the owl
(If you know you are going to be hand stitching the whole
project stitch the tummy on the felt body before you stitch together the front
and back shapes creating the body)
So, once you have finished gluing/tacking/stitching your
owl together he should look like this!
I also added a tie, so I can hang him
from my wardrobe handle.
This is the finished project! Hopefully you have an
amazingly cute little fellow that you can use to decorate your room with!
Personally I have used my owl
to hang off my ( very dull looking )
wardrobe handle
(just to spice things up!)
You however, could use him as
a decorative potpourri holder to pop in your sock drawer, decorate your room with or simply give as a beautiful handmade gift.
Toodlepip xx
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