Joy has been bestowed upon our family! My brother and his wonderful wife have delivered their new bundle. A beautiful baby girl (the first girl in our line for a VERY LONG TIME!). She is the spitting image of my brother at her age... My second (of three) brothers is expecting their son in February... the family is stoked to be growing. and I cant imagine better people to be blessed... my brothers are amazing as are their wives.
That brings us to today's project... Owl Pillow for Jocelyn! I wanted to make a gift to present at my nieces baby shower. I wanted it to be unique and thoughtful. So I chose to make an owl pillow. My brother loves owls and everything with owls made it in the shopping cart without delay or question (according to my sister in law). I found a great instruction online for creating one so I begain the quest to create a gift that hopefully will stay with little Josie forever (I still have the baby blanket made for me by my grandmother).
I began by drafting a pattern on an old newspaper. See below. I created the body, Eyes (three sizes), the beak, wings and feet. As shown below. For the pupil of the eye I chose to make a heart to show how much we love our new addition.
The material I used was in my collection of horded fabric. I used a quilting cotton weave for the front of the body in the nursery colors my sister in law used to decorate (Mint green, Peach and Navy Blue). The back and wings are navy blue fleece and the beak and feet are a peach silk lining material which I used a piece of white felt under to give it body some texture. The eyes are felt. The eyes were hand stitched with contrasting thread to give some character.
My favorite part of the whole thing are the looped fringe eye lashes! Don't they just make it!
I drafted up a quick information sheet on the measurements and shapes of the pattern pieces. I tried to make a printable pattern but I am not very good at keeping patterns to scale at the moment. If I would have uploaded the jpgs the pillow would have been HUGE!
Click here to download PDF Owl Pillow Info
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