Ted loves owls and I’d been wanting to make him one for ages. Then after doing a brilliant training course where I learnt how to do needle felting, I decided to put these newly acquired skills into making him a soft, part felted owl.
I used coloured merino fleece to create the details on the eyes and wings and then felted them together using a tiny, barbed felting needle. Such an amazing technique, I understand how it works but it still blows my mind how quick and relatively easy it is. I created the body using lovely soft turquoise fleece stuffed with filling from an old pillow. The buttons for eyes finished him off.
I made this on Christmas eve 2 years ago and when Ted opened it the next day he cuddled it for ages and he has slept with it ever since. Unfortunately felted items should probably have a label saying “this is not a toy and is for purely decorative purposes” as he has pretty much cuddled all the fleecy bits off and the poor owl looks about 20 years old not just 2! It doesn’t matter though; he still loves his owl regardless of its shabby appearance.
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