Fabric Owl Tutorial by Eva Dobilas

Hi there, it's Eva here today with a fun tutorial.  If you came joined us in this month's blog hop, you have seen my little fabric owl.  Well, since so many of you loved it and even asked if I would have a tutorial for it, I decided why not?  Sure hope you enjoy this.  As I mentioned in my original post, I saw this owl on Pinterest, so I had to create the pattern for it myself, and I am sharing it with you, so you can just print it out and have fun at it.  Here is what you will make.

So, let's begin.  All you need is fabric, thread, buttons, scissors, hot glue gun and little flowers for embellishment. Of course in this case I used Samantha's Riley Blake fabrics.

Here is the pattern.  Just click on the picture, save and print.  It should come out as the size I made it in.

Here are the items I used to create this owl.

First step is to cut out all the pieces.  After working on my project I realized I missed the beak of the owl, however it is in the downloadable pattern, so you won't miss a thing.

Next you need to sew the orange fabric piece on with blanket stitch.  If you don't know how to do that, I did a little google search and found this for you, just in case.  Blanket stitch tutorial

Next you do the same with the eyes.

Than it's time to stitch the beak on.  I only used one stitch, just to secure it, as my eyes will be stitched over it anyway.

Time to sew the eyes on.  I used regular stitches for that.

Than add the button eyes and you can see this owl come alive...fun isn't she?

 

For stuffing you can use all kinds of things, I didn't have anything special, so I just used some cotton makeup remover pads.

And here is what she looks like stuffed....LOL

Finally to create the bow, I folded the circle in quarter and hot glued it, so it stayed like these two and just glued them on her and added the little flowers.  If you want you can trim the bow a little bit, as it seemed a little big for my owl.  Remember, this pattern was very organic, kind of evolved, as I worked with it.

And here she is all finished with her BFF.  Aren't they cute????

 Well, hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  Hope you create one of these little guys and if you do, I sure would love to see.  ENJOY!

Silhouette Build a Damask Set

Well a great idea came through on my Facebook fan page on Tuesday from Angela Thomas, for a Silhouette die design, and I ran with it. (I still have other requests on my list that I haven't gotten to...so there is a good chance your request will still be created, if I told you it's on my list. However, as an artist, I sometimes get carried away with one idea, and it spawns another...then another, and soon I am on a snowball of ideas--growing and gathering more as it goes. When that happens, I can't stop...as that is all my mind can think about. Building a damask just happened to be one of those ideas.)

Angela asked for a damask pattern that she could make a stencil out of...something where the pieces could be bigger so that she could stencil her wall. So I started making pieces for a damask...then one flourish inspired another...then a string of related borders...then soon, I had all these pieces I could use to build a damask. So I tried to decide how I would arrange them, and realized that there were endless options. So I decided that I would just give you the parts and let you decide how to arrange your damasks...or use the pieces independently as elegant flourishes. I'll start you off with some inspiration with some patterns I came up with...the pieces that I used...and then you can duplicate or make variations of the samples I show. To make a pattern use as many or as few of the pieces as you want, duplicate and reflect pieces...ungroup the designs and use just parts of the images if you want to simplify the look. I was planning on a project to go with these designs...but my husband just told me we are going camping today (we are a very spontaneous family), so that will have to wait until next week. But just to get you started...here are some of the patterns that I created...






I would LOVE to see what you come up with and how you use these pieces. So please send me a picture of your project when you finish show I can share your inspiration with others here on my blog or here. PS...there is no right or wrong way to do this, so feel free to explore and get creative!