Autumn Owl Amigurumi

Summer is coming to an end and so it is time for fall decorations. I searched through all my yarn in my Big Bag I came across this wonderful autumn yellow wool. Perfect for an Autumn Owl Amigurumi. And it is fast and easy to make, too. You need 10 parts altogether: body (head), ears, eyes, wings, feet and a beak. That’s it.

The body and head are made in one piece. As usual you start with a Magic Ring and crochet in spirals, in- and decreasing as needed. After 29 rounds you are finished with the first part.

Before you close it though you need to fill the body with a little bag of rice for weight and fiber fill. Of course you can leave out the rice, but the weight makes the owl stand up much better.

You can use a small piece of cloth or even a paper handkerchief. Put some rice in the center and close it with a string. Then cut excess fabric.

Place the little bag in the bottom of the body and stuff around and on top of it with fiber fill.

Once you have stuffed the body close the top by holding both sides together and crochet through two stitches at once. Now you have the finished body/head.

Now you only have to make the little extras. The ears and wings are in the same color, but actually you can choose any color you like. Maybe you want more contrast and take a darker brown. I stayed with my yellow. The ears are really just tiny cones made in four rounds.

For the wings you crochet circles, fold them in half and crochet the sides together. Just like the ears they only take 4 rounds, but they start with 2 more stitches.

Next thing to do are the eyes. Basically they are the circles from above, but you use different colors. You start with a Magic Ring in black then switch to the eye color (I used glitz yarn) and finish with white. That’s all.

Finally you make the feet and the beak. Funnily enough the feet consist of 3 beaks crocheted in one piece. 🙂 I chose orange for that, but again you can use any color you like. After 3 chain stitches and two single crochets you are finished with the beak.

For the feet you do the same as for the beak, but you continue crocheting and repeat the pattern twice. There is your first foot. Now do the second one.

Finally it is time to put the pieces together. I started with the ears and eyes.

Then I added the beak. That looked pretty good already.

But as you can see the owl really needs wings and feet, too. So I added them as the last step.

Now your Autumn Owl Amigurumi is finished. Isn’t it cute? So how many are you going to make? I am still counting. And it’s great for using up all your left over yarn.