Owl cushion

Poor MrM.  Not only did his favourite wool sweater get attacked by evil moths, but his wife decided to make it into a whimsical owl cushion, useful only for getting in the way when you want to have a nice sit down.  It is quite cute though.

Please excuse the creme egg wrapper shrapnel in the foreground, unnoticed until I uploaded the photo.  There may have been a small amount of wanton, unbridled creme egg consumption going on over the course of this weekend.
Anyway, the jumper was found on Thursday in holes.  A shame, since it was rather a nice jumper.  However, never one to eschew an opportunity to have a look at Pinterest, I searched for recycled woollen sweater craft.  Several very lovely things appeared, including a completely awesome cuddly peanut.  However, a rather sweet, very plain owl caught my fancy, so I based my own creation very loosely on that.

First of all, I washed the jumper at 90 degrees.  It came out tightly felted, and the size of a jumper for a small boy. I drew the outline of an owl.  Let's pretend I meant for it to come out "primitive", as they say.  It was strangely satisfying cutting through the felted wool.  It's very thick, and doesn't fray at all, so made a good, clean cut.

I used felt for the eyes, beak, wings and feathers.  I added a few scraps of Annali fabric which I had left over after cutting the many, many hexagons for my quilt-in-progress.

We have named the owl Olwyn, and she is going to live in one of the armchairs we have acquired from Great Grandpa for the new house. Well, she'll live there until someone chucks her off so they can sit down, which seems to me to be the fate of all cushions...