Owl Baby Mobile – Free Sewing Pattern

Transform your kids’ room and nursery into a magical wonderland with a cute owl theme DIY baby mobile! Hang it up high above the baby’s crib or changing table, and you’ll love the personal touch it adds to the room. Even if you don’t have a baby’s room, you can sew one as a gift. I’ve created an easy-to-follow free sewing pattern to share with you all, so gather your supplies and sew it all the way through.

With the step-by-step instructions, you can make a baby mobile with adorable owl characters and a lovely tree design, as well as hearts. Not only will your kids or babies enjoy the enchanting mobile, but they’ll also cherish the love and effort you’ve put into making it. Let your creativity soar and watch your kids’ faces light up with joy as they gaze at their handcrafted owl-themed baby mobile!

It all started with a request to be interviewed and featured in one of Malaysia’s leading English newspapers, The Star, for the Craftypedia column. I’m the cover story of The Star2 with a two-page full-page story and a two-page half-page tutorial on this owl baby mobile. Click the link to read the title “Living and sharing her passion through crafting“.

I designed this “Forest of Owls” woodland theme mobile to share with The Star’s readers. I am so grateful that the columnist, Lee Mei Li, allowed me to share it here.

As many of you are aware, I recently moved into a new home and still have a lot of work to do on the interior design. These two sets of owl mobiles (pink and blue) arrived just in time for my daughter’s and son’s rooms. I’m glad they like it dangling from their ceiling, watching them swing and fall asleep under a dim nightlight.

The owl is approximately 3.5″ tall, and the tree is 5″ tall. Although they are all hand-sewn from felt in this tutorial, machine sewing is also an option. Simple embroidery or sewing with ric rac and lace trim is used to decorate the owls’ bodies.

Aside from using different colors on the owl to differentiate the gender, you can arrange the mobile into two designs. For the pink owl, I arranged them side by side on a twig. For the blue owl, I tied the owls along the embroidery hoop, with the tree in the center.

To begin sewing, download the printable sewing template from the tutorial section below. Sew four owls (or more if desired) with varying facial expressions and hang them from a stick or an embroidery hoop. Then, to finish the “Forest of Owl” baby mobile, add a few hearts and a tree (templates included too).

What Do I Need To Sew Baby Mobile?

The craft supplies to sew the baby mobile are quite simple and are available in major craft stores.

• Felt – pink, grey, white, red, green, brown
• Embroidery floss – pink, grey, white, red and black
• Decorative Button – 2
• Cord/cotton twine – as the string for hanging
• Ric Rac, mini ribbon, lace trims
• Doll polyfill stuffing
• Pins
• Embroidery needle or tapestry needle #24
• Scissors
• Paper or cardstock
• Ball pen

‘Forest Of Owl’ Baby Mobile Sewing Instructions

Download and print the pattern templates on paper or cardstock, cut them out, and trace them on the felts with a ball pen in the color shown in the image.

How To Sew Owl Hanging Ornament With Felt

1. Cut the felt along the inside of the traced lines so that no ugly ink shows on the cut-out felt.
   
2. Layer the white felt eye over one of the pink face pieces and blanket stitch it in place.
   Sew three strips of ric rac trim to a grey body piece using a backstitch.
   
3. Place the nose between the eyes and backstitch it in place.
   Sew on the decorative buttons to serve as eyes.
   
4. Play around with different facial expressions. Here are 4 examples of different owl faces/expressions.
   
5. Align the felt pieces for the head and body’s front and back. Place the pink wings atop the front body piece. Secure with a pin.
   
6. Sew the front and back body pieces together with a blanket stitch, beginning at the bottom of the left wing. Pause just before the top of the body. Sandwich a long length of cotton twine between the felt pieces (with a knotted end to keep the twine in place). Continue blanket stitching along the body’s edges until you reach the bottom of the right wing.
   
7. Fill the body with poly-stuffing and finish stitching the piece together.
   
8. Here are three examples of body designs. You are free to make your own design.
   
9. Sandwich the cord between the head felt piece and the body, allowing it to run through the top of the head. Begin blanket stitching from the bottom of the head and work your way up to the left ear.
   
10. Finish stitching the pieces and stuff the head. If necessary, use a ball pen or tweezer to push the polyfill stuffing into the head.
    
11. The completed owl hanging ornament. Sew a few more with different expressions and bodies, as shown above.
    

How To Sew Tree Hanging Ornament With Felt

1. Cut felt on the tree template, tree/crown, trunk, and small hearts in the same way you did on the Owl.
   
2. Arrange the hearts on the crown of the tree and blanket stitch them in place.
   
3. Layer the tree trunk pieces and blanket stitch the bottom half of the piece together.
   Layer the top half of the trunk on one of the crown pieces and blanket stitch it together.
   
4. Place the second crown piece, align the tree crown, pin it in place, and sew the trunk to it.
   
5. Stuff the trunk with polyfill stuffing. Push the poly-stuffing in with a pen or tweezer. If needed, massage the trunk to even out the lumps.
   
6. Blanket stitch the crown and thread a knotted cord through the center of the tree. Stop about 1 1/2′′ from the end, stuff the crown with polyfill stuffing, and add more to the trunk you just stuffed to make the stuffing even.
   
7. Finish stitching the crown pieces together.
   

Baby Mobile Assembly

Repeat to make 4 or more owls. Finish with a tree and some hearts hung from a stick or an embroidery hoop.

If you make it for your children or a friend’s baby, I hope you enjoy sewing it.

If you need more free patterns on owl-themed to DIY, here is the list:

1. Stuffed Owl sewed from socks sewing pattern
2. Owl Key Pouch Sewing Pattern
3. Owl Coin Purse Sewing Pattern
4. Olivia Owl Card Pattern
5. Amigurumi Owl Mr. Murasaki crochet pattern
6. Mini Owl Charm Crochet Pattern
7. Needle Felted Owl Tutorial
8. How To Draw With 3D Pen

Happy Sewing!