This is what I came up with: Three Wise Owls<\/p>\n
Remember: (1) Leave a 2 cm turning gap at the bottom of your owl and (2) fold and glue the beak of your owl down before <\/span>filling with rice.<\/p>\n Thanks again to Xue.<\/p>\n Hope you enjoy making your owls…I don’t think kids can ever have too many wise friends.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s getting close to school holidays over here and I’ve been looking for new sewing projects for my holiday workshops. Recently I saw some owls on Xue’s blog which I really admired – her work is really beautiful – it has that understated Japanese refinement and everything about her blog has a really lovely feeling … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,104,112],"tags":[134,98,119,145,180,148,127,130,150],"class_list":["post-3772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-toys-and-games","category-sewing-projects-for-kids","category-tutorials","tag-boy-craft","tag-christmas","tag-craft","tag-mothers-day","tag-owls","tag-sew-together-grow-together","tag-sewing","tag-sewing-project","tag-softies","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"sewing](\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_6885.jpg\")
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\nTemplates are always a bit fiddly. It took me several attempts to get the template below just right so that the owls didn’t look a little “odd”. The size given, 10 cm X 10.5 cm, is the size of the Papa Owl. The curves give you good ears and a nice round body, but if you want a different look or character, just play around with a few versions. My owls are filled with rice which gives them stability and a nice weight to hold. Actually, it sort of gives them their realness.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_6855.jpg\")
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\nTo give the owls a flat base I fold the ends under as in the photo below: (so glad there are photos to explain this sort of thing!)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_6878.jpg\")
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\nSo that’s my very quick, very condensed tutorial.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sewasoftie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/sew2Btogether2Bgrow2Btogether.jpg\")
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