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Toddler Owl - pattern #1351

7/21/2014

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Back to Halloween and my newest patterns this week.


A couple weeks ago I  posted two blogs about this set of toddler costumes.


Today I'm going to show you how I worked on the face for the owl, and share a couple "oops" I made along the way.

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Owls have been pretty popular lately so I had no trouble finding cute images on line which helped me make my sketch to get started.
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The first thing is to partially sew the hood together and hem the front edge.

Then, I felt confident about the color I wanted the larger eye mask to be, so I appliquéd it on with a small zig zag stitch, but I wasn't sure about the rest, so I cut out felt shapes to experiment.  The black line around the eyes proved to be too strong, I thought.
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So I opted to outline the eye with the same color as the body, a rich mustard yellow.
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The first time round with the zig zag was showing too much of the fabric through the stitches, so I made a second pass.
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It is usually better to do two times with a looser zig zag than once with a super close together one.  Close zig zagging can make the fabric ripple and the more I looked at the stitching around the larger eye mask, it was really bothering me how ripply it was. (look at the photos above) I couldn't steam it out either.  So ... out comes the good old seam ripper.
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And I CAREFULLY picked out the stitches all around the light yellow eye mask, inside and out.
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And restitched it with a looser zig zag.  It's polar fleece and the thread is going over fabric the exact same color, so a close stitch really isn't needed.
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Now for the beak.  Even though the seam allowance was small to start off with, I trimmed it down to about 1/8" so it would look smooth after turning and stuffing.
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Then I stuffed it and pinned it in place.
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And zig zagged around it ... pretty cute!
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BUT!!! &#*%#)!

Dang ... I hate it when that happens! I caught some of the other part of the hood when stitching the beak ... well I'm getting a good workout with the seam ripper ... ha ha!
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Here he is all done.  The wings were very easy.  Separate shapes with batting inside then just hand tacked to the sleeves.


Next time ... the costume corsets and skirts.
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