{"id":17899,"date":"2017-06-22T08:13:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=17899"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:46:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:46:42","slug":"owl-collection-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/owl-collection-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Owl Collection crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for a pattern that’ll give you a spectacular result thanks to some clever new techniques and tricks? In that case, I think you’ll love my new design: the Owl Collection<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Owl Collection is a clever low-sew design: the head, body, legs and wings are all crocheted as one piece, giving you an elegant bird silhouette with the perfect owl posture and an effortlessly smooth result! This concept has been over a year in the making, and I hope you’ll agree it was worth the wait…<\/p>\n

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About the Designs<\/h2>\n
Fun Fact:<\/strong> Owls’ eyes are fixed in their sockets, so they have to turn their entire head to look in a different direction!<\/div>\n

I’ve used that fact in my design to let you choose any direction for your owl’s head to be facing: to the left, right, or straight ahead. Don’t you think a pair of matching owls, facing in opposite directions, would make a lovely bookcase or mantelpiece ornament?<\/p>\n

I’ve designed the pattern to give you endless options: by varying the colours, the direction the head is looking, and the facial embellishments, you can make your own customised owls! Although I used black eyes for my sample owls \u2013 it fits better with the PlanetJune style \u2013 you can use coloured eyes (try any shade of orange or yellow) to give yours an unblinking owlish stare.<\/p>\n

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Make them to match a real breed of owl, or more cartoony with brighter colours and oversized eyes – it’s up to you. My samples are loosely based on real types of owls, and you can switch out the colours or add more detail if you want to represent a specific species more closely. A flecked yarn (for example I used Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice<\/a> in Grey Marble for my grey owl) is an easy way to give a realistic mottled result.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact:<\/strong> Owls are divided into two families: Strigidae (typical owls) and Tytonidae (barn owls). With this pattern, you can choose appropriate colours to make any of the typical (true) owls.<\/div>\n

Note:<\/strong> I’d love to design a barn owl too, but to make it look right it’d need lots of colour changes and special shaping to make the distinctive heart-shaped face, so that’s a challenge I’ll have to save for some future point in time!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are a few examples to get you started, if you want to base your owls on real species:<\/p>\n