My first stuffed animals/my shop mascots I made
I wanted to make a boy and girl owl, one for me and the other for my husband. I spent some time going to craft stores such as Michaels and Jo-Ann fabric and craft stores to find cute types of fabric and decorations which would make cute owls. At each store I found something unique I loved and wanted to use on my first mascots.
I wanted to make a boy and girl owl, one for me and the other for my husband. I spent some time going to craft stores such as Michaels and Jo-Ann fabric and craft stores to find cute types of fabric and decorations which would make cute owls. At each store I found something unique I loved and wanted to use on my first mascots.
These are the materials I gathered together before starting to sew. I got some different colored cloth for the different parts of the bodies with cute patterns on it. For the wings I used some blank pieces of different colors. The eyes, nose, and feet I made out of different colors of felt. I took a checker board cloth for the stomach, since I liked how the tummy would look. I added some flower decals to the stomach to brighten it up and add some more details. Some basic things to make a couple of cute animals =)).
I cut out the owl designs before sewing the pieces together. I didn't use any tracing forms, everything was sketched free hand. I wanted to make sure I had all the pieces cut out properly, and I wanted to see what the owls will look like before I started sewing. This allowed me the chance to play around with where the owls will look or how their feet will be placed . The front and back of the owls are of two slightly different colors, I liked the difference in the color scheme. I decided to add the red bow to the girl owl during this step.
Here are our mascots finished. It took me few day to complete all the sewing and stuffing. I changed the eyes around a bit so that the boy owl would be staring at the girl owl. When I started sewing the owls, I hadn't realized that the owl would need to have a bit of space open to stuff the owls near the wings. The stuffing was a little difficult, as I had to stuff the whole owl from only the small holes where the wings came from. Once the wings were stuffed, I sewed them shut and then sewed them to the stuffed body by hand. This was my longest project I have done, because I didn't exactly know what I was doing, and I had to figure it out as I went. And then our mascots were done and ready to be cute =))
If you like my mascots, and you would like to have one of your own, contact me and I will be happy to make it for you.
This is my email: ivankaslittletreasures@gmail.com
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