![]() The Opening Day Parade is scheduled for March 30th. When he’s good and stuffed turn in the raw edges of your turning gap and hand stitch the gap closed with a coordinating thread.31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Upcoming events I use the paintbrush handle or chopstick again at this stage to push the stuffing into the ears and distribute it evenly. The last steps are to stuff your owl with your soft toy stuffing. Turn your owl right side out using a chopstick or thin paintbrush handle end to get gently poke the ears until the tips are out properly. This is so the seams sit nicer when you turn it right side out. Then clip the tips of the ears (without cutting through your stitch line!) and make some small notches in the seam allowance where the ears meet the body and along the curved edges. Step 8: Turn your Owl Right Side Outīefore you turn your owl right side out go around and trim any excess fabric from around the edges of your owl. Place your two owl body pieces right side together and sew all the way around the edge with a 1/4″ seam allowance leaving a small opening at the bottom of the owl for turning (3″ should be sufficient). If they are further to the middle then go ahead and stitch all the way around. If the outer edge of your wings will be caught up in the seam you don’t need to stitch over them at this stage. Sew all the way around the edges of your eyes and beak and along the inner edge of your wings. There are a lot of curves in these pieces so whichever stitch you are using just take your time and stop to pivot and raise your presser foot when needed to reposition your owl. (See image at the end of this blog post – the brown owl has blanket stitch and the pink owl has zig zag stitch)īlanket stitch is a bit slower to do but tends to look more polished and zig zag is much faster but has a bit more of a homemade patchwork look. I’ve used both with this pattern and the owl’s turn out cute either way. You can use either a blanket stitch or a zig zag stitch for this. So we need to secure the edges of our shapes with some ‘raw edge applique’ – which just means we are stitching over the raw edge rather than turning it under first. If you plan on making more than one fabric owl I would suggest using the paper templates to transfer the shapes to cardboard as it makes it much easier to accurately trace the shapes on your fabric for cutting.įusibles like Heat n’ Bond are not like fabric glue – they are not something you can rely on to hold your shapes in place indefinitely. Use the cutting lines (seam allowance included) to cut out the shapes. Print out the free templates (fill in your email below for an instant download file) at 100% scale. Thin Paint Brush or Chopstick (for helping to turn the ears).Awl Tool (optional but very useful if you are using proper soft toy eyes).Soft Toy Eyes & Nose Kit or Two Black Buttons.Heat n’ Bond Lite or an equivalent fusible product.1 piece of cotton fabric approx 3″ x 2.5″ (for the beak piece). ![]() Two pieces of cotton fabric approx 3″ x 3″ (for the eye circles).Two pieces of cotton fabric approx 6.5″ x 2.5″ (for the wings/side body pieces).Two pieces of cotton fabric approx 10″ x 8″ – for the front piece and back piece of the owl.You can also make the fabric pieces below out of more than one piece of fabric or use ‘made fabric’ like I did for the Owl in the video tutorial below. The cutting instructions below are for 100% scale. NOTE: You can easily make different size owls by scaling the paper pattern template on your printer. These are rough guides for the size of scrap fabric you will need in order to cut out the free pattern template pieces at full size. Materials Needed – Fabric Owl Fabric Cutting Sizes NOTE: Printable instructions and a video tutorial are at the end of the post. They are easy to make and a great sewing project for beginners so I thought I’d do a tutorial and includes the free template for cutting the pieces out (see below to get yours!) I made quite a few of these Softie Fabric Owls for the little kids on my Christmas list last year.
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