Owl you’d like to hear some music?

Craftiness! And even more than that…hand-stitched craftiness! I’m personally not a huge fan of anything that brings my fingers any closer to a needle, but I wanted to fiddle with something while I was watching a scary episode of Stargate Atlantis.

I was able to use leftover fabric for the front, back and lining and then felt for the rest of the bits. I’m still not sure about the closure. The pattern I was working off of used a snap but I don’t know how to attach one of those, so I used a simple flap. It’s not the most effective but it’ll do. If I make this pattern again I’ll probably do a button. Depending on how hard this one is to open and close, I might add a button here. The felt was much easier to work with than I thought and now I really want to go back and find all the tutorials I skipped because they were felt projects. Looking at the pictures, it’s very easy to tell that I could benefit from learning some stitches (and maybe cutting a straight line). But since I don’t really know any stitches, and considering that I was hiding behind a pillow from the scary aliens on the TV, it’s not half bad. I really like the design and while it’s a bit bigger than my mp3 player, I like the size of the owl so who gives a hoot if it’s a bit roomy. I’m ready to load my mp3 player into its new cute little home and stay up all night listening to tunes.