Green hand-dyed canvas creates a lovely underpinning for this month’s owl. You could also use sage green canvas or the green vintage canvas.
In this piece I used
- Watercolours in Potpourri
- Dinky Dyes silk in 69 Swan Valley
- overdyed #8 perle cotton, probably Needle Necessities
- Grandeur in G826
- Olde Willow Stitchery Linen in 225L Rebekkah Green (no longer made)
- two four-hole gray buttons
Trace the outline of the owl onto your canvas. Remember that the owls and the tip of the top triangle are represented by dots and transfer them as well. From the middle dot, draw two diagonal lines to make the top triangle.
Make the eyes by attaching the buttons at the dots.
Stitch the triangle in Tiny Knitting, below. This stitch really looks like knitting because the slant of the stitch changes in each column.
Stitch the face in AA Variation, below. This is a Skip Tent variation from Julia Key Snyder’s book Backgrounds & Such. Make each of the short rows as Backstitch, i.e. in straight lines.
Stitch the left side of the body in Moorish Variation, below. I used Watercolours for the Diagonal Scotch and Dinky Dyes for the Tent.
Stitch the right side of the body in Clapboard Gobelin, below. I used Watercolours for the Tent and Grandeur for the Gobelins.
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