L'Owell Owl - Free Knitting Pattern
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Never having knitted anything like a toy before, I wasn’t sure how to go about it. But once the idea took hold, I couldn’t wait to get home and get started. I had some Aspen that I wanted to use because it is incredibly soft and I love the big size of the stitches. I then had to decide what animal I would make. I’d seen knitted bears, rabbits, cats, and even a stingray and an elephant. I figured that if I wanted to be original, I had better come up with something that hadn’t already been done.
I remembered how my friend Melissa (a.k.a. Roxy) tells the kids in the pre-school class that she teaches, that HER favorite animal is the baby owl or owlet. I immediately got started on an owl. I had the idea that I could start with a short I-cord for the beak and work out from there to form a circle for the rest of the face. I used the size of the owl's face to determine how big the body should be. I spaced decreases so that the body would taper towards the feet and still be proportionately tall enough. I made the wings by starting off with one stitch and increasing on one side only. I wanted to mimic the lighter under-feathers, so I worked the underside pieces of the wings in white. To add another texture to the owl, I looped through and tied strands of Aspen along the bottom of the back for his tail and used white again for the under-color.
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