Cute Big-Eyed Owl Embroidery Design, Sketchy Owl Pattern

Heres the cute big-eyed owl, a 7.5 inch sketchy character piece that looks like somebody scribbled it into a notebook on a slow afternoon and then realised it was actually really good. Two huge round eyes take up most of the face, theres a tiny orange triangular beak in the middle, and the best part has to be the wild curly tufts of feathers shooting off the top of its head like its just woken up from a nap.

I drew the whole thing in a pen-and-ink sketch style. Scribbly hatching across the body for the feather texture, messy uneven outlines, little curly squiggles around the head where stray fluff sticks out. Mostly black and soft grey on white cotton or linen, with two pops of warm orange for the beak and the lil claws.

Last week a customer messaged me a photo of one stitched onto her sons cream pyjama top and the surprised eyes had her whole family laughing at breakfast. The catchlights in the pupils give the owl proper personality. Definately leans cute over scary, the kind of owl a kid would draw and love.

9 sizes, stitch counts run from 21k on the 3.5-in petite up to 53k on the 7.5 inch, 5 colours total. Density sits at 992 so Pop medium cutaway behind, no tearaway. The hatching is running stitch and the dense scribble fill on the body is tatami, so the texture stays clear without smushing together.

Stitch this on cream cotton, sand canvas, oatmeal linen or pale grey twill so the black scribbles read clean. Skip black fabric, the body lines vanish into it. Hoop tight and slow your machine on the curly hair tufts, those tiny radial curves want a careful pass. If your hoop wont fit the biggest size just ping me, ill resize it for ya tonight.