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Small Owlby Edie Kim

Materials:

- Brown (body) Cream (eyes) and orange (beak) sport weight or worsted weight yarn- Stuffing

- stich holder

- long seaming needle or dollmakers needle if you have them

- 3 mm crochet hook (or slightly smaller than yarn calls for)- Glass safety eyes if you like

Abbreviations:

ch = chain

st = stitchessc = single crochet

dc = double crochet

ss = slip stitch

inc 2 = increase by working 2 sc into one stitch

dec 2 = decrease by working sc into every other stitch ie skipping the stitch directly beside working stitch andinstead drawing through every other stitch.

Instructions:

Head and Body. (brown yarn)

Crocheted in round

This pattern works top down in spirals as opposed to rows.

1) ch 4 connect with slip stitch2) sc 8 st into the centre of the loop3) place stitch holder in the first stitch. Starting from the first stich, *inc 2, sc 1* and repeat the ** till you

reach 36 stitches around in total.

4) bring up stitchmarker and sc straight for 7 rows5) bring up stitchmarker and starting from first stitch *inc 2, sc 1* and repeat the ** till you reach the

beginning of the stitchmarker. This should be 54 st in total but dont be too worried if its one or two off

6) sc straight for 10 rows this is the body of the owl7) now we decrease to make the bottom of the owl bring up stitchmarkder, dec every other stitch straight

through this row this will make a sharp curve for the bottom of the owl

8) bring up stitchmarker, sc 1 row straight,9) dec every other stitch straight through next row10)bring up stitchmarker, sc 1 row straight11)dec every other stitch straight through next row there should be approx 7 sts left and a small hole.12)cut a long tail for sewing and pull through13)stuff body tight with stuffing and stitch up bottom hole.

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Wings (brown yarn) Make 2Crocheted in flat

1) ch 62) skip the 6thch and sc into the remaining 5 st.3) turn ch 1, sc into remaining 5 st4) turn ch1, sc into remaining 5 st5) turn dc into 3rdst 5 times (this makes the curve of the wing) (This is a pineapple technique)6) slip stich into the first stitch cut a long (14) tail for sewing and pull through. Weave ends up the side of

the wing till you reach the top

7) sew to sides of the owl.

Eyes (cream yarn) Make 2Crocheted in round

1) ch 5 connect via ss2) *sc1, ch1 * repeat 6 times, ss3) dc 12 sts, ss and leave a long tail for sewing4) make 2 and sew both onto your owl beside each other.5) At this point you can either sew on glass eyes or stitch on brown ones.

Ear tufts (brown yarn) Make 2

1) ch82) skip the 8thst and dc 7 sts3) ss and cut a tail for sewing.4) Fold in half and stitcth onto owl for ears

Beak (orange yarn) Make 1

1) ch 4 ss together2) leave long tail for sewing cut and stitch onto owl as a beak