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What’s on my hook: Crochet Owl Pillow (and a sorta tutorial)

I love owls and I’m surprised I haven’t actually crocheted other owl-related projects before. But when I saw this post on Crochet Concupiscence, I fell in love with the little owl toy stephaniedavies made. I couldn’t find a pattern for a similar project anywhere that was free, so I just made my own version as I went along.

My favorite part are his little feet!


Now, for an explanation of how I made him:

I had a 12×12 pillow form in the closet and I went 5 inches with the colored stripes, and 7 inches with the white.

Basically, the colored half is all single crochet. In hindsight, I should have done half double crochet because this part took forever! But I like the look of the tiny stripes.

His little neck ruffle is just a double crochet scallop that I did in the front loops of the last colored row. Then the first row of the white star stitches were done in the back loops of the same colored row.

His body is made with the star stitch, which was my first time ever using this stitch. I like the way it looks but it’s hard to get the first one of each row going when you start yarning over on the tiny chains.

His wings are just half circles and his nose is actually a circle too but I sewed it on in a triangle shape with a little stuffing inside.

The white part of his eyes are 3 rounds of double crochet.

Then I raided my button stash and was so pleased to have those big blue buttons that matched his wings!

His feet were made using this tutorial.

Then to close up the bottom, I finished off the white yarn with a super long tail. I slip stitched across until I came to the first foot, then I then attached a needle to the yarn and whip stitched through both the white and orange attaching the foot. When I came to the white again, I grabbed my hook again and slip stitched to the next foot and did the same thing for the other foot.

The end!

What’s on my hook: Crochet Owl Pillow (and a sorta tutorial) is a post from: Habitual Homebody
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