"Make it yours" - owl clutch bag

You can vote for my owl in Deby's contest here:
Contest vote link.


As I said before I wanted to do more bags for the "Make It Yours" Sewing Contest. This is my second try at it.Here are the links to the pattern and contest rules ( pattern is free, entering the contest is optional ):

• Pattern 
• Contest 

For some time now I wanted to try do my own owl bag. I've been putting down on a list all kind of ideas for it but I didn't had the courage to try it until today. Deby's pattern seemed pretty good for it and I already had a try at the pattern so I had the confidence needed to make a few small changes. Some of this ideas involved a lot of work but I took the easy way... I took out all my fabric and start looking for prints I can use. Here are the fabrics I selected :

Here is how I did it: ( the picture not the best - it was night .... )

I did another copy of the pattern, folded it as the final bag will be and start drawing... After that I did 2 small cuts in the pattern :

Take a look at the picture with the 2 pattern unfolded and overlapping to get a better understanding:

The new pattern I folded in half and cut. Kept one part and used the other to cut out smaller pieces ( wing, eye, eyebrow ):

Note that because of this I now have to cut the fabric, the lining and interfaces on the fold:

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After this I took the eye and the wing patterns and try to find something in the printed fabrics that I can use. After mixing and matching I decided not to use the exact patterns for eye or wing and completely dropped the eyebrow. Here was the preview setup:

I cut the extra fabric and and sew the eye and the wing on main fabric of the clutch. I also added some eyes for toys.

From here I just followed the pattern instructions with only one exception. I didn't let the seam open in the middle for reversing but more on a side:

the result seemed a bit to plain so I glued a few felt accents.

The final result: