Owls on Parade

Here are more Owls strutting their stuff and flourishing their feathers at the Lytham St Annes Day School with Lizzie Wall on the previous Saturday (read post here).
We hope that you enjoy their little parade and perhaps gain an insight into the many different effects you can create using fabrics that you may not normally have chosen.

What a pretty Blue Owl, above. Using very fine pointed embroidery scissors will help you cut out fanciful shapes and even cut and remove small pieces to create 'air flow' throughout the feathers. The same blue fabric has been used on the whole owl but care has been taken to select different parts of the pattern for the each body part. The orange leaves are a nice touch to make a little pop of colour in contrast to the blue.
Below, pink floral elements make for lovely wings and cutting long pointy pieces at the end give an arm and hand like appearance to the wings giving this Little Owl character.

This blue bubble type fabric may not at first be the obvious choice for feathers, but as you can see from the image of the lovely owl above, blue 'bubbles' work very well in this context.
Here is this Wise Owl again, below, in all his/her majestic glory. Adding a little green onto the beak also works very well.

A green clam shell type fabric, shown below, also becomes 'feathery' in appearance when added to the chest of this sweet little Green themed Owl below (this fabric was also used as leg feathers on an owl in this post).

Here is the owl again, showing green chest feathers to full effect and the addition of green lightning shapes on the lower body add a unique but still owl like touch.

A flamboyant Blue Owl, above, looks lovely with the pink flower fascinator and pink leg feathers. Perhaps a little more is needed?

Yes, that it..... a few more blue feathers on the body and we are good to go!
Thank you to Lizzie and all our members for displaying their work here for us.
One last 'Owly' post is coming up.