This pattern has been on my to do list for quite a while. I really loved them but never really had a reason to make them. I don’t really like having useless knickknacks and despite their cuteness they did not serve a purpose. However, during my knit fabric class someone had mentioned pattern weights to keep down the fabric and pattern in lieu of pins. I saw one girl take out some rather pricey, generic, looking sandbag things and I thought, ” Hey I could make a cuter weight than that!” Hence my swarm of Moonstitches Owls!
Pattern: Moonstitches Owls from her Tutowlrial
Fabric Used: Various Wools and Canvas
Notions Used: buttons…lots and lots of buttons, rice, and polyfill
Pattern Alterations: I made small and big ones!
The Good:
- They are ridiculously cute!
- They use so little fabric that all sorts of fabric scraps can be used up
- I found this template to use for shape and size so I didn’t really have to guess at all
- They work up quick and are very easy to do. The assembly line process is highly recommended if you are making quite a few. Otherwise it probably takes about 10-15 minutes to make one of these once you get the hang of it.
The Bad:
- The template I used produced the little owls. Although cute, I needed something a little bigger for my intended use so I scaled up by about another 50% which got me the larger owls
- When sewing down the nose I went a little too far and tacked it down about mid stomach. I should have placed it higher which would give you a taller, less squat owl. Because they were so squatty I couldn’t put the letters that i wanted to stamp on each one. Ahh well.
The Ugly:
- I obviously lost my mind when I thought to make 17+ owls. Now I didn’t realize how crazy I was until I had finished all the quick sewing and got into the hand work. 17 embroidered noses, 17 hand stitched bases, and 34 hand sewn buttons later I was pooped…surprising I still like them 🙂
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Those are adorable!
You are so ambitious.
Adorable! What a great idea for pattern weights.
TOO CUTE!!!!
Cute and useful! What could be better?
They are so CUTE!!!!
Great! I want to make a whole flock! But thanks for the reminder about all that hand-sewing!
Oooh, Oooh [said like an owl] they are sooooooo cute. I plan to make some…this will resolve my issue at my son’s bday cookout, where the cake display tablecloth always wants to fly away. Oooh, if I can part with them [yours are so adorable] I may let the kiddies take one as a favour(paper weight).
THANKS!!!
They are freajubg cute! They remind me of Pig (if you’ve read Harry Potter, you know who I’m talking about). I use empty spagetti sauce jars filled with decorative sand but these I could definitely do…
I can’t believe you made 17 of these owls! And yet, at the same time, it makes me want to make 17 owls 🙂 They are that cute.
I love these so much; they turned out wonderfully cute. I’ve signed myself up to make 15 bird ornaments (from Last Minute Patchwork Gifts) to attach to holiday gifts, and I’m already wondering about myself….and those don’t require the embroidery.
Hi you owl? LOL! Lovin’ all the stuff you’ve been makin’! 🙂
Those are the CUTEST dang things!!! I need to do a few of those for office presents at Christmas!
Those are the cutest things I have seen in a long time. I love owls!!!
These owls manage to make “ridiculously cute” an understatement! And I am even more impressed that you found a way to make them functional too. Kudos to cuteness with a purpose!
Adorable! But wow, what a lot of work. I’m impressed.
Sooooooooooooo cute!! how long did each one take?
How adorable!
Really cute!!!! I love there!
These are so cute. Really. Damn. Cute. Although in the egg carton they look a little too aggressive. Creepy.
These are really, really adorable and functional too. I hope you are storing them in that egg carton in your fridge=)
Really, really cute! Now I’ve got to replace my little bb weights with these! Or maybe I’ll have some cute owls *and* some bb weights…
my goodness, I must not get out much – those are the coolest things I have seen in a while! Of course, they are probably cute to everyone.
You could do a whole ZOO of critters and pack them into egg cartons (use the 18 or 24 egg cartons) and sell them at craft fairs, fund raisers, even old folks homes!
You could run a contest with one of the little critters being a “winner”. Kind of like the golden Easter egg idea.
Let me know if you can mass produce, maybe you are on to something! good job!
hee! these things are *made* of cute! I like that you made them so colorful and cheery–perfect.
So, so, so cute! They are now on my official to do craft list that nothing ever gets crossed off of…but someday I want to try them.
I have never heard of pattern weights but what a cute idea! I think my mom needs something like that! And me and my grandma….
These are waaaayy tooo cute!
My sister sews and I used to. I think I’ll make some of these as pattern weights for her.