Let's Get Creative: Sew Your Own Owl Pillow

By Mermaid Debbie

This adorable little guy is quick and pretty darn easy to make. Whip one up for yourself in a little over an hour. Or, you can spend the day and make a whole "parliment" of owls.

You will need:

• sewing machine
• polyester fiberfill for stuffing
• fabric for front and back of body
• fabric for wings, eyes, feet and beak
• fabric for eye background
• thread
• scissors
• paper bag or other material to cut out pattern
• pencil or pen
• wooden spoon to push stuffing in the tight places

Let's get started!

Draw and cut a half an owl shape on a folded brown paper bag.
(size depends on your bag or your preference)
Unfold and trace owl shape
on another brown paper bag,
as you will need one for the front and back of owl.

Pin owl shape to desired fabric
and cut out, leaving at least a half inch border.
This will be the back of your owl.

Cut wings out of second owl shape.
Set them aside and pin front of owl body
to desired fabric.

Pin wing shapes to desired fabric

Cut out a shape for the eye background
and pin to desired fabric.
I used an old wool sweater that I shrunk.
I love how it turned out.

Sew wings to front of body.

Make little snips all around wings,
just up to the stitching.
This prevents fraying and looks cute.

Wings will look like this.

Trace two circles for the eyes.
I used a little tin of Nivea cream.
Trace two slightly smaller, as well.
As you can see in the image below,
because of the design of my fabric,
I was able to simply use these circles.
Cut out a small beak out of desired fabric.

Assembly will look like this!

Sew smaller circle to larger eye circle.
Make little snips on both pieces,
up to the stitching.

Sew the entire eye piece to front of pillow.
Then sew the beak, stuffing a bit of polyester fiberfill in it,
as you sew.

Cut out two half circles for feet and sew them on,
leaving the straight, bottom edge open.
Snip up to stitching, as shown.

Place right sides of fabric together.
Stuff wings and feet with polyester fiberfill.
Sew front and back of owl together,
leaving a large enough opening in top
to turn owl right-side out.

After turning right-side out,
stuff with desired amount of fiberfill
and hand sew the opening closed.
A wooden spoon handle is handy
to push stuffing down nice and tight.

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Comments

[marti]

OMG, this is the cutest thing ever! My daughter is really into owls right now and she and I will definitely make these together. Thanks so much for the instructions. Happy Pink Saturday. ~Marti

[Beverly]

Happy Pink Saturday, Mermaids.♥ Oh, my gosh! That little owl is adorable. Now if only I could sew. lol