Ta Da - they are finished

The owls are finished:

They aren't washed or ironed so they are a bit wrinkly, as I don't have any of my stuff with me, so I'm going to send them to Mum as is (Dad is framing them for her).

Here's a picture of all the thread I had left over. The lengths on the left are the untouched lengths, so still the full 6 strands. I thought that was pretty generous thread allowances.

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I had very much wanted to finish off the owls before we left the UK, as they are a present for my mother and my father will be framing them. So the plan was I'd leave them with them if I could. But I didn't quite make it, so hopefully I'll be able to post them off soon. They shouldn't take much longer to finish - I've just got to stay awake long enough and find some decent lighting to work in.

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And the third owl is done. On to the mother owl now.

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And about time - an update on the Owls.

I've just realised I've forgotten to do the backstitch around the beak, so I'll have to try and remember to do that next time I pick it up.

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I have almost finished the first owl. I was hoping to actually finish it before taking this picture, but somehow I just don't seem to find the time to make those last few stitches, so thought I'd put the photo up anyway.

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Here are the owls again:

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Also a little bit more on the Owls.

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I've decided to put this one in my blog. It is a gift for my mother, but she does know about it (I had to show it to her to prevent her buying it herself lol) so it's not that much of a secret anymore. Therefore I figured since it was what I'm currently working on I'd add it to my pile that I can blog about. There is still another gift that I can't show, but I'm not working on that at the moment - I thought I'd finish one of the other gifts I'm working on first, and then see if I can find the threads for it which I must have put in one of those safe places.

So here it is - Owls from Eva Rosenstand (the one with the four owls on the branch):