Little Owl- Summer Mini Amigurumi Crochet Along Day 11

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Day 11 of the Summer 2023 Mini Amigurumi Crochet Along, only one more day left after today. I know there is already a bird included in the crochet along with the eagle on day 5, but today is another member of the bird family, a little owl. 

Owls are an animal I definitely associate with being in the woods, although since most owls are more active at night and they tend to blend in pretty well with the trees I don't feel like they are one you see very often. But that being said I still decided to include an owl in the crochet along.

I mean, to be fair most of the animals I have included aren't really ones that you see often, just animals you might see. I have seen plenty of snakes and squirrels, a couple of moose (luckily only from a distance or from inside the car) but never a bear, although my sister saw one once when we were camping in Yellowstone when we were kids. She was pretty terrified but I was kind of jealous of her, although I'm sure I would have been terrified too if I had seen it. 

The owl is crocheted in the same way as the other animals, the big difference being that I used a larger size of safety eye for the owl. I tried keeping it the same size as the other designs in the series to keep it uniform, but it just didn't look right. So instead of the 6mm eyes I used for all of the others, the little owl uses 8mm eyes. It would also look cute with colored eyes, but the only ones I had on hand were too big for this small of an amigurumi. 

You could use any colors you want for your owl, obviously, but I chose a light gray-tan color. I used white as the contrasting color for the face and stripes on the wings. If you were to make a brown owl you may want to choose a tan color for the face and stripes instead. Or you could make it all white and add black to the wings for a snowy owl look. I didn't try to go with the coloration of any type of owl in particular and mostly chose the color I did because I felt like I had too much tan in the set already and wanted a different color. 

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How to Crochet a Little Owl

Finished Size: about 3" tall sitting

You will need:

• medium weight yarn in white, yellow, and whatever color you want your owl to be (sample made in Loops and Threads Impeccable in Putty and Red Heart Super Saver in Soft White and Saffron)
• G crochet hook (4 mm) 
• 2- 8 mm safety eyes  
• Polyfil fiberfill
• yarn needle
• stitch markers 
• scissors

Instructions:

With the owl about half of the pieces are made with a magic ring and worked in the round and the other half begin with a chain (sometimes a very short one), it is indicated in the pattern which way each piece is made. The eyes are added to the face piece rather than to the head like they normally are, If you don't want to make the face and just want to add the eyes to the head, just add them in the same place as all of the other animals in the set (between rounds 13-14 of the head).

Body/Head

Make 1 with main body color yarn, beginning with magic ring

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)

Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)

Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)

Rounds 4-8: 1 sc in each st (18 sc)

Begin stuffing and continue stuffing as you work

Round 9: sc2tog around (9 sc)

Round 10:  2 sc in each st (18 sc)

Round 11: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (24 sc)

Round 12-15: 1 sc in each st (24 sc)

Round 16: [sc2tog, sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (18 sc)

Round 17: [sc2tog, sc in next st] repeat around (12 sc)

Round 18: sc2tog around (6 sc)

Finish off, weave in ends

Face

Make 1 with white yarn, beginning with magic ring

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)

Round 2: 2 sc in each st (12 sc)

Round 3:[2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (18 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Attach safety eyes to the face just above the center and toward the edges

Beak

Make 1 with yellow yarn, beginning with a chain

ch 2

turn, sc in second ch from hook 

Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing 

Stitch beak to the face between the eyes

Ear Tufts

Make 2 with main color yarn, beginning with a chain

ch 2

turn, sc in second ch from hook 

Finish off and cut yarn, leaving long tail for sewing 

Stitch the little ear tufts to the top of the head

Wings

Make 2 starting with main color yarn, beginning with magic ring

Round 1: in mr, ch 1, 6 sc (6 sc)

Switch to white 

Round 2: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next st] repeat around (9 sc)

Switch to main color

Round 3: [2 sc in first st, 1 sc in next 2 sts] repeat around (12 sc)

Switch to white

Round 4: sc2tog around (6 sc)

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Flatten the wing and sew one to each side of the body

Feet

Make 2 with gold yarn

*the feet are made by crocheting a chain and slip stitching in some of the chains to make each of the "toes" similar to a picot, at the end you will single crochet in the first chains that you made

ch 4
turn, sk the first 2 ch from hook, sl st in next ch, [ch 3, sl st in the first of the 3 ch you just made] 2 times, 1 sc in last ch from the starting ch

Finish off and cut yarn leaving long tail for sewing

Sew the feet to the bottom of the body