Easy Owl Basket Crochet Pattern - Cute & Functional DIY Storage for Beginners! Step-by-Step Tutorial

It's Deja, and today we are making this super cute owl basket, one of my most favorite and popular patterns. I'm going to give you materials in just a sec, but I wanted to let you know, stick around throughout the video. I'm going to be giving tips and tricks that aren't in the actual pattern, so that way the basket will look its best. And to do that, to get started, we are going to need... Quite a bit of yarn. We are using four strands at a time for the main body and the reason for that is to make it extremely stiff so that it can stand up on its own. And I love Cascade Yarn's ecological wool. It is a very structured yarn that holds up really well. It is not a superwash though so it will felt so good. Just be careful of that. But it has a ton of yardage. It has 478 yards per hang. So we're going to need two of those because we're, again, we're using four strands at a time. But you can substitute. This is a bulky weight. I've told people that you can substitute with super bulky and reduce your number of strands. So if four strands is just kind of difficult for you to work Use a super bulky and two strands and then when we do the eyes you'll drop down to one strand because on the eyes we use two strands of the wool. But when you are winding this if you're using the exact same yarn because it comes in a hank when you're winding it make sure it is a center pull ball because we're going to use both of these. So wind them both at the same time because you're going to use the inside and the outside of each cake To get your four strands, so make sure that you are creating those as center pole to make your life easier and that you don't have to go rewind it. If you are allergic to wool, you can still get stiff yarn. There are certain types of acrylic that give you a nice stiff stitch as well as other types of yarn. Just make sure that it's kind of, um, when, you know, when you touch it, it's not that soft. Usually the soft yarns are the ones that are more drapey and not as structured. And so your basket may not stand on its own, so if you're looking for that kind of stand-up basket without anything in it, you'll want something with structure. With this, we are going to use a semi-large hook, but with four strands it's not going to seem that large. But this is a 10 millimeter hook. You'll notice in the pattern I say 10 millimeters. I do not name the letter and you'll see if you can see that in The camera that it is stating, it is an N slash P. So depending on the vendor, it will be a different letter. So I just stick with the 10mm so that's what you look for. So this basket is almost like Amigurumi. You want your stitches as tight as possible. So if you're moving up to a super bulky, if you're getting kind of loose stitches with this 10mm hook, Drop it down a size, go to a 9mm because you want very tight stitches. for that structured look. I will link all of this in the description below as well as on the website where you can pull up the free pattern so that you can follow along, but let's go ahead and get started. Okay, I've got my yarn wound into cakes and I think you can see See, just my hands, how big this yarn really is. It is a huge cake. I have two to be able to work four strands at once. Like I said previously, we're going to use the center strand and the outside strand at the same time on both or all four strands together. Okay, I've got my four strands pulled out for my two cakes. I've got a little bit of slack as well. It's not too difficult to unwind this. You're just gonna grab both and pull at the same time and one will roll around from the outside and one from the inside. So it's not too difficult to get your slack. But we are going to begin with the magic adjustable loop. So to do that, we're going to make our loop. So we're just going to cross over, so the working tail over the actual tail, sorry, working yarn over the tail, and we're going to pull up a loop, and we're going to start working around inside of this loop. To be able to close it tight when we finish. We are going to go straight into half double crochets. We're not even going to do a chain. So in order to do that, we're going to yarn over. We're going to insert our hook through the loop. We're going to grab all four strands always and pull up a loop. And with the three loops on our hook, we're going to yarn over and pull through all three. Now a tip with working four strands, make sure that you are pointing your hook down when you pull through. Point it toward your stitch and that will get you through all of your loops at once. So that will keep you from kind of only grabbing one or two loops. This hook size, while it makes pretty tight stitches, it still is not super tight where it's going to give you hand fatigue or it's going to be an issue catching all four loops on your hook. So we are going to do six more of those half double crochets for a total of eight inside of our loop. As you go, if your tail kind of gets a little bit lost, you can pull on that a little bit to tighten up the circle a little more. You'll have plenty of room, so don't worry, and you can always make it wider again if you need to. To count your stitches, we're looking at these Vs here up on the top. So, so far I've made one, two, three. So, if you're not sure how to count those, count that V up at the top. I'm finishing up my last half double crochet and now I'm ready to close my magic adjustable loop. So I'm going to grab those tails and yank on that to close it down. Now I am working the basket in spirals so there are no seams. So we are using a stitch marker. I'll link to this one. It's a nice big one that can fit onto these big stack stitches, but we'll begin row two now. So for row two we're going to be doing two half double crochets in every stitch around. If you're new and you're kind of like where do I begin working, remember use those v's and work backwards. We've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So even though this kind of looks like a V, that is not a stitch. This is the beginning of our stitch. And it's going to be a little awkward on this first join because we're not going to slip stitch. We are just going to start working our next stitch in. So we're going to yarn over, put our hook through those two top Vs, and do our half double crochet. Then, so before I forget, I'm placing my stitch marker to mark the beginning of my round. And then we're going to do another half double crochet in that same stitch. So you'll see if you kind of pull on it, it's going to open that stitch up for you to find it easily. If you're using dark yarn and you're new, don't. Go to light yarn until you get used to stitches because it will be a lot more difficult to see. So again we're going to do two half double crochets in our next stitch. And then we're going to repeat that six more times all the way around and you'll see like sometimes my my slack gets kind of bunched up just kind of kind of tear and just kind of straighten it out for you to keep going so we will meet up at the end of this round after doing two half doubles in each stitch. Okay, I'm at my last stitch, my 16th stitch of round two, and you'll see that my hole is kind of opened up in the magic adjustable loop. Don't worry about it. You can just let it hang. You don't need to keep closing it down. Once you weave in the ends at the end, you can tighten that down and close that hole. So just something so you don't have to torture yourself by keep on closing that down. Or you can close it down and weave in the ends right now if you'd like. But we're going We're gonna move on to round three. So for round three we're going to continue increasing, so I'm going to take off my stitch marker and I'm caught on a little bit, there we go. And then we're going to start off with two half double crochets in that first stitch again. Always remember to place that stitch marker after that first stitch so you don't forget. I really like these because they just kind of slide right on, you don't have to sit there and click blocks or anything like that, so I will link that. Again we're going to do another half double in that same stitch and then our pattern for this round is we're going to place one half double crochet in between each increase. So we're going to do two half double crochets, one half double crochet, and then repeat that. So again we're going to yarn over, insert in the next stitch, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through all three, Yarn over, insert back into that stitch, pull up that loop, pull through all three, then we're going to do one single half double in the next stitch, and pull through all three. So we're going to continue that around for a total, see me trying to get my slack, for a total of, what did we end up with, with 24 stitches, so keep on going around and we'll We'll meet up at the end of round three. And I am on my last half double crochet here. So now we have 24 stitches for round three. We are moving on to round four and we are still increasing. We're going to be increasing for a bit. So this time we're going to place two half double crochets in between each increase. So we're going to take off our stitch marker. We're going to do our first half double and place it back. Don't forget. Then we're going to do another half double in that same stitch, just like all the beginning of our rounds, and then we're going to do one half double crochet in the next stitch, and then one half double crochet in the stitch after. So again for round four, we're going to do two in one stitch, and then one in the next stitch, and another one in the next stitch. So a total of four stitches, and then we'll start increasing again. So we're going to do Two in the next stitch, pull my tails apart here, another one in that same stitch, and then one in my next stitch, and one in a stitch after. So we're doing always multiples of eight. There's eight sections basically of each round. So as we're increasing, we're increasing eight stitches every single round. We're spreading out those increases to keep it circular by placing evenly spaced extra stitches in between. So it's kind of A little geometry behind that, but we're going to continue doing those four. Repeat stitches of two half-doubles, single, and loop. So you'll see sometimes you get a little wrapped up. Take your time keeping your strands nice and straight. We have, let's see, we have two there. So we have one, two, and then one, and one more. So I'm going to keep doing that all the way around. So we have 32 stitches. Okay, here we are on our last stitch of round four and we have 32 stitches total and we're going to keep on going to round five where we're going to increase some more. Again, we're going to increase eight stitches. So to begin, we're going to do two half double crochets in the same stitch. Place your stitch marker. And then, as kind of what we've done before, we did one stitch in between, and then we did two stitches in between. Now we're gonna do three stitches in between. So we're gonna do one half double crochet in each of the next three stitches. So that will be our pattern all the way around. We're going to do two half double crochets in the first stitch, and then we're gonna do one half double crochet in each of the next three stitches. So we're going to do that eight times around for a total of 40 stitches. Keep on going and we'll meet up at the end of round five. Okay, here is the end of row 5. We are up to 40 stitches around. We're only going to increase a couple more, but we're going to keep increasing to get a nice big basket. So for round 6, we're going to be doing 6 stitches of a repeat again. So we're going to be doing 2 half doubles in the first stitch. And then we're kind of repeating that pattern we've been going. We did one, two, and three in between. Now we're doing four in between. So one half double crochet in each of the next four stitches. You may ask, why can't I just do all my increases at once, right in a row? Why can't I just do eight? If you do that, you're going to have a big, crazy-looking, not-circular item. So you have to spread them out to keep them circular. Otherwise, you're not gonna have a basket. You're gonna have a strange creation. So we have one, two together, and then one, two, three, four in their own stitches, and that is the pattern all the way around for a total of 48 stitches. So keep on going around for round six just like that, and we will come back for round seven. I think we finished increasing. Nope, we still have one more. Two more, I think, two more to increase and then we'll be done increasing. So I'll meet you at the end of round six. Okay, last stitch of round six. 48 stitches in and our base is getting nice and big. We're going to make it bigger. So we are going to now do... Seven stitches of a pattern, so two half-doubles in the first stitch, for round seven, and then five half-doubles, one in each of the next five stitches. One messed up here. Need more slack. Caught up on everything. Wait, did I say? One, two, three, four, five, four, and five. I am trying to make these stitches as tight as possible so as you work keep really good tension. The tighter you make these stitches the more stiff the basket will be and will stand up on its own so that way you don't have to fill it completely full if you don't want to or just have it as decor. So the tighter you make these stitches it's just like kind of amigurumi. You're making the the stitches, the stitches as tight as possible so again i just did two half double crochets and i'm going to do one half double crochet in each of the next five stitches so again eight times around and then after that round you will have 56 stitches And then we're only going to increase one more time after that and then we're going to start making the whole body of the owl. So keep on going and I'll meet you at the end of this round. Okay, last stitch of round seven. We've got 56 stitches and now we are ready for our final round of increasing. So we're doing eight stitch pattern eight times for 64 stitches. So we're doing two half doubles in that first stitch. Always remember the stitch marker and then one half double crochet in each of the next six stitches. Once we finish this round we are going to start making the body of the basket so we'll just be crocheting half doubles forever for a bit and then we'll shape the basket a bit to give it more of a owl kind of body look to it. So we'll get into that as soon as we finish this round, but let's see, one, two, one, two, three, four, five, and six, five, and six. Again, two half-doubles in your next stitch, and then one half-double in each of your next six, six stitches, and keep on going. You'll do that six more times After this grouping, and then you will have 64 stitches at the end of round 8. And then we will start building our basket. Okay I just finished round eight and you can see the bottom of the basket is huge. That's what we want. Now we are going to work the body of the owl basket until round 17. So we are going to go rounds 9 through 17. just half double crocheting around and around so do not forget your stitch marker. Or you might get lost and you don't want to have to pull back out to your increases to figure out where you are. It's not a huge deal, you know, you can always kind of start from where you started and work your way out to find it, but it's much easier just to keep track. So we are just doing half double crochets around and around in every single stitch, one in every stitch, or 64 stitches each round. And then when we get to the end of round 17, we are going to do a little shaping. And do a little bit more basket, and then we'll be making eyes. So go ahead and go watch some TV and make all these rounds, and I'll see you at round 18. Here we are at our last stitch of round 17. So now we are ready to start shaping our basket. So we should have a nice big basket already, and you can see with the tight stitches that it's standing up on its own. So next we're just going to shape it just slightly to give it a little bit more kind of like an owl look if you know owl has a look. So we're going to decrease eight stitches around so kind of what we did increasing we're going to do the opposite and we're going to decrease evenly all the way around. So to do that we're going to start with our decreases first so we're going to yarn over and we're going to do it HDC two together so we're going to do technically two half double crochets but in one to decrease these two stitches so we start that by yarning over inserting into our first stitch of our round Then we'll have three loops on our hook. Then we're going to yarn over again and insert to the next stitch and pull up a loop. And now we have five loops on our hook. That's why I like long shafts. You'll see them if you go download the pattern. I'll talk about why I like long shafts on bigger hooks because a lot of yarn you need a lot of room. So next we're going to yarn over and we're going to pull through all those. So remember to get through the stitches easy, point straight down and pull through all of those stitches. Kind of wiggle if you need to. Don't forget to place your stitch marker. And then we're going to just half double crochet in the next six stitches. So here's where that last stitch was Now we're going to go into the next one. And we're going to repeat that pattern eight times all the way around. So we're going to hdc two together and then half double crochet in the next six stitches. And that is going to reduce our round 18 that we are on by eight stitches, giving us a total of 56 stitches again. Got here one, two, three, four. I should have pulled more slack. Trying to make it through these six without having to pull. I'm going to need to pull. Hold on one second, you guys. Let me pull some more slack real quick. So we had our HDC two together, and then one, two, three, four, five, six. So we're just going to repeat that around again. We're going to yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, go into the next stitch, and pull up a loop. And then yarn over and point down and get through all five stitches nice and easy. So keep on going around. With your HDC two together and then HDC in the next six stitches and we'll meet up for round 19 where we are going to do a little bit more shaping. Here I am at the last stitch of round 18 and we're ready to do one more round of decreasing. That's going to bring us to 48 total stitches, so we're going to start off again with a HDC two together. So yarn over, insert in your first stitch, yarn over, insert in your next stitch, yarn over, and pull through all five. And then how we did six stitches in between each decrease, we are going to now do five stitches in between. So we're gonna have one, And five. Okay, so again, for this round we're going to do kind of a six stitch repeat, but we're going to do an HDC two together, and then one, two, three, four, five half double crochets after that. So again, this will bring us to 48 stitches. And then that will be the end of the decreasing, but we're gonna increase back up one more row after this before we just kind of continue on. So come back around, finish row 19, and we'll do row 20 next. And now we're moving on to round 20. So we are going to increase back up to 56 stitches. So this will just give it a little bit of a innie and an outie. So we're gonna do Two half double crochets in that first stitch and this should be a pretty easy one to remember because we kind of just did it. We're going to do two half double crochets in one stitch. So last time we did two half double crochets into two stitches to turn it into one. So then we're going to do five more half double crochets. So just like what we did the round before except we're increasing instead of decreasing. So we're going to do Two half doubles in that first stitch and then five more, one in each of the next five stitches. We're going to do that eight times, so we're going to bring our total back up to 56 again. So again, two half double crochets in the next stitch. And then one half double crochet in each of the five stitches after that. So keep on going. After that it's going to just be going around around but we'll get back together at the end of this round just to go over it real quick. Okay last stitch and now we are ready to just do a few more rounds of normal half double crochet. So we just finished round 20. We're going to go on to round 21, which is just half double crochet in every stitch around, as well as the rest of the basket, except for the very last two stitches, just to finish it off. So we're going to work rounds 21 through 27. Just half double crocheting around and then I'll come back at the very end to show you how we're going to fasten off the basket and then we'll move on to the owl eyes. Okay, I'm at the end of round 26 and now we just need two more stitches to finish off this basket. The reason why we're doing these stitches is because if we just fasten off we're going to have this big offset because we're working in spirals, so we're going to do two stitches to bring that down. So the next stitch we're going to single crochet, so just insert your hook, yarn over and pull through, and then the stitch after we're going to slip stitch. So insert, pull through, and then pull through on your hook. So that's going to bring the stitches more in line with the rest of the project. And then after that, we're going to fasten off. I'm not going to do another like an extra chain fasten off. I'm just going to pull this along so that I can get a tail to weave in, cut it, and then that way also when I weave in, I'm going to bring it down even more. So I'm going to weave it down this way. You'll need a pretty large needle for weaving in. This is a really nice large eye for very bulky yarn so this will work perfectly to get all four of these strands at the same time. But I'm going to kind of bring it through so I'll mimic this Y when I come through. I'm just going to bring it through an extra stitch down there so that way it's going to pull through and give it just you know not so much Have a bulky look as you work through and weave in your ends. So just kind of go back and forth with your needle to weave in all of your ends. The more you go back and forth, the better it locks in. If you just kind of run it straight, like in the camera, you just run it straight, it's more likely to pull out. So it's much more secure when you go up and down and all around instead of just in a straight line. So I'll continue to do that. I'll weave in my end down there in the middle and tighten the hole and then we'll move on to the eyes which are kind of the most important part of the basket because that's what gives it personality. Okay so for both eyes the first three rounds are the same. It's the fourth round where we actually create kind of little flares that are going to be different for each eye so that way they're both facing. the right side because if i just did two of the exact same eyes i would have to flip one which would make it look kind of strange but i'll show you how that looks on um when we finish one of the eyes but to begin we're going to do six single crochets with two strands only so now i've just kind of i'm still working i'm using two um my two Cakes, but I'm using just the center pull portion of it now, just so that I'm not pulling from inside and outside the whole time again. And you'll see how much yarn I have left over. So I've had people in the past that say that they don't have enough of the eco wool. They're not making their stitches tight enough. So if you're making your stitches tight enough, you will have plenty of wool left over. So just a little note there. So to begin, we're going to do six single crochets. Into a magic adjustable loop. So we have our tail, we're going to flip our yarn over to make a loop, we're going to insert through that loop and pull up a loop, and then we're going to do one chain just to anchor it in there, and then we're going to do six single crochets into this loop. So we're going to insert, pull up a loop. Yarn over and pull through two. You'll notice we're still using the same size hook, we're not changing it. These stitches are going to be a lot looser than our other basket stitches. Three and six and this is going to have a much longer tail. or you know a semi-long tail so that way we can attach the eyes to the basket so make sure that your tail is pretty long and we're not going to crochet it into the eye we're going to leave it loose so that we can use it for sewing so we've got our six stitches we're not joining we're going to be working in spirals again so our next round we're going to do two single crochets in every stitch around so we're going to place that stitch marker on the first stitch so we don't lose track All of my strands here. Place the stitch marker. Again, if your hole starts to open up, don't worry, at the end you can pull it closed again. We're going to do two stitches in the first, two single crochets in the next, and two single crochets in each stitch around for a total of 12 single crochets. Okay, here's the last of my 12 stitches. Cut in my stitch marker. Alright, now we're moving on to round three. We're almost done with the first eye. Okay, for round three we're going to switch up our stitches. So we were just doing two single crochets in each stitch around. Now we're going to switch to two double crochets in each stitch around. So we're not going to do any beginning chains or anything. We're just going to yarn over, insert our hook, pull through the first two, pull through the second two, and then place our stitch marker. And then we're going to do another one in the same stitch. We're going to continue that all the way around. So we have 12 single crochets that we're working into and we're doing two double crochets into each one. So we'll have 24 double crochets at the end of this round. Go ahead and work two double crochets in each stitch around and then we'll come back. For the final round, we'll do some other special stitches to give the owl its very distinctive eyes. Okay, here we are at the last two stitches, and now we're ready for round four, the final round for the eye. So we've got kind of a little pupil and a big round around the outside. So for round four, we're going to do a little bit more increasing before we start the flares on the eyes. So we're going to start off with two double crochets in the next stitch. You don't really need the stitch marker because it's the last round, so unless you want it there to be able to work backwards, if you need to remember how many stitches you've done, go ahead and place that and that'll help you so you can count backwards if you need to if you get distracted. So we've got two double crochets in the first stitch, then we're going to do one double crochet in the next stitch. So we're going to continue this pattern six times total, so five more times. So we've got two double crochets, one double crochet. Two double crochets again, and then one double crochet. Do that four more times, and then we'll come back to create the flare. Okay, here is my last double crochet of those six increases. Now it's time for the eye flare. So our next stitch is going to be a treble. So to do a treble, we're going to do two yarn overs. We're going to insert the hook into the next stitch, pull up a loop. And then we're going to work off two loops at a time, so this is the next highest stitch after a double crochet. Pull off the first two, pull off the second two, pull off the third two. So there's three, three loops, treble for three. Then, we're going to do a double treble in the next stitch. So that's going to be three yarn overs, and then we're going to insert into the next stitch, Pull up that loop and work off two at a time again. So I don't know why they don't call this a wobble or something, but we're gonna do four work offs and it's gonna bring out that flare even more. Then to make it even more flary, so our next stitch is going to be a picot. I don't know how to say that correctly, but what it's going to do is going to create like a little point on the end of that. So we're going to chain three. We'll do them fairly tight. You don't want them super loopy. And then we're going to slip stitch into that first chain that we made. So it doesn't really matter which loop you go into. We're just going to slip stitch. And then that's going to give us an even more of a point over here. Then what we're going to do is we're going to chain five. So again, make these pretty tight. Don't make them super loopy. Three and five. And that's going to bring this back down. So that is. The next stitch to bring all of our tails back down here and then we're going to slip stitch into sorry wrong one into the bottom of our double treble stitch so the same stitch that we did our double treble in we're going to slip stitch into that stitch and then we're going to fasten off that. Again you can make your tail nice and long to help sew the outside of the eye to the basket. So this one, I want to make it even longer, because I want to go all the way around. Make sure it's really good. Okay, so... Here is the first owl eye. So as I said before, we're going to do and then you kind of close that off there to make it a little smaller. What I said before, we're going to create the first same three rounds and then we're going to do something different for the opposite eye flare. You could make two of these and just flip it but as you can see it looks totally different on this side And if you like this side better you could make you know your two different eyes and then pull them to this side. But to get the same look we got to do round four slightly different. So go ahead and make the beginning round three of the next eye and then we'll work through the flare when we come back. Okay I'm on the last double crochet of round three. Now I'm ready for my flare on four. So we're going to be working backwards because on this guy, we did our flare at the end, but to get this thing going the right way, we've got to start our flare at the beginning. So to do that, we're going to first slip stitch into our next stitch. We're kind of working backwards from the last round. Then we're going to chain five. Again, don't make them super tight or super loose, just the size of a double treble. We've got that. Next we're going to do our peacoat and I'm going to kind of block off this chain five because the next I have to do three more chains for the peacoat and I don't want to get them confused. One thing I want you to do is make this first chain pretty tight. Because when we go to slip stitch into it, it's going to pull out a lot. It's going to pull on this chain 5 and I want to keep the stitches that are between the double treble and the chain 5 close together. And if you make this picot kind of loopy, it's going to kind of pull apart. So we want to do it nice and tight for slip stitching and then we get our point. So we've got pretty close stitches here. So this is what it looks like if you're too loopy. See that big gap? So we want it nice and tight. Okay, next we're going to do our double treble. I want to keep my stitches as tight as possible on the hook when I do my yarn overs because the double treble has a tendency to kind of poof out, like you'll see how these loops will start getting bigger as we're working them off. So we're going to do three yarn overs, we're going to insert back into that same stitch, and we're going to pull everything tight before we start. So I want the hook laying right on top of the eye. Then we're going to work off two stitches at a time, again pulling tight, keeping the loops close together. As you can see, this one's starting to get a little big, but what we can do after we finish this stitch is spread these out a little bit. We can pull these a little looser to make this one not as loopy. One other tip is you'll notice that these two stitches have a little bit of a gap Compared to our first eye, that is because of how this was a beginning chain and this was an ending chain. So what we're going to do at the very end is just take a piece of yarn if it bothers you and just connect these two up at the top and then that's going to put them close together just like the others. So not a big deal, that is your extra tip so that you can make your eyes look the same. So we're gonna go ahead and keep working our way down. The opposite way of what we did for the first eye. So the next one is just a treble. So we're going to yarn over twice and work into our next stitch and pull off two at a time. That guy. And then we are going to do our increases that we did for round four. So we're going to do the double crochets increasing by doing one double crochet. So we're going to kind of go backwards. We're going to do one double crochet first and then two double crochets in the next stitch. So instead of starting with our increase and then doing one double crochet, we're going to do the reverse of that six times. Okay, so again, we're going to do one double crochet in our next stitch, and then two in the stitch after. So we're going to do that for a total of six times to finish off this increasing portion, so go ahead and do that six total times, then we'll come back at the end to finish off the eye. Okay, here is the last double crochet. And then to finish this off, because we can't just fasten off because then we'll have this weird jump here, we're going to slip stitch into the next stitch to bring that down and in line. Then we'll fasten off here. Again, make it nice and long so you can sew it in. And then I'm going to give you a tip about the eyes really quick. So if you're finding that your eyes are not coming out the same size as you work one and then the other, Say maybe because of gauge or whatever, instead start each eye, so do the front and outside of a cake if you've got two. Do round one, then round one, round two, round two, round three, round four, round four. That way you will have. More closely matched your gauge because you're working the same back and forth rather than one whole eye and then the other eye So that's a quick tip So again to make this eye this less gappy here Go ahead and just use a little piece of yarn and put that together and then you'll get that nice and the same We're gonna go and attach these to the basket one other thing if you accidentally got some yarn that is A little floppy and your eyes are kind of like maybe droopy or anything like that, they're not standing up, because you're going to attach pretty much everything but the flare. If you're finding that it's droopy, starch it before you attach it. You can go and use some spray starch and get it nice and tight, or you can put a little piece of wire in there. Whatever you want, if you're finding that those are not standing up on their own. But this ecological wool is great, you can see it just stands up on its own like no problem, but I can Move them and make them flop if I want to but they do stand up great on their own. So let's go attach the eyes and put on the nose and finish our basket. Okay we've got the basket ends all woven in. Now we're ready to attach the eyes. So go ahead and get the long around eye tail. On a yarn needle, and then what we're going to do is we're not going to worry about the first eye, it's the second eye that we want to make sure we're placing the right distance apart to get the look that's in the pictures, but for the first eye, you basically want to line it up with the top of the basket, but with the eye flare, Up and above the basket because that is not going to be sewn on so depending on where you want your offset from the end of the basket I'm just putting it in the back. You could put it you know where the eye flare is totally up to you but we're going to use our tail and we're just going to work around the entire eye to attach it. So you can do a back stitch, front stitch, whatever, but I'm going right underneath my stitch and around the post. So that makes it pretty indistinguishable. So you're just going to continue to do that all the way around, you know, make sure that you're kind of keeping everything flat so that nothing, it doesn't get bunched up as you go. And then after we finish this portion, And you're going to want to kind of go maybe not totally all the way around because you still want to get your middle eye sewn on. So once you get it on there, you know, a decent amount, head through with your center eye. And remember you can pull your eye shut if it was kind of opening up. And then we're going to go kind of in and out around the eye. So just to kind of like in the same fashion that the stitch already looks so it doesn't create any kind of different look to it but that will secure that on there. So go ahead and attach this first eye and then we'll be a little bit more careful with the second eye to get it right where we need Okay, we've got the first eye attached and now we're going to place the second eye. So you'll see in the pattern that it says to put it two stitches apart, so kind of like right where the center of the eye is. You want to go one, two, and then place your next eye and that'll give you a good amount in between and then for our nose. So make sure that you're taking your time to line it up So that it is, the eye flares are matching up, the look of it is matching up, so take your time and then you're going to attach it the exact same way. So I'm going to do that off camera so that way I don't mess it up while I'm trying to show you, but same thing, you're going to stitch around and stitch the center of the eye, and then we'll come back and we'll make the nose and we'll be done. Okay, I've got both eyes attached. Now, and we're ready to do the nose. So you're going to do it between the eyes and you're going to make a triangle. So it's really up to you how big you want to make it. For the one that's in the picture, it's about two rows high. And it looks like it's about, you know, right at the bottom third of the eyes. So it's totally up to you how you want to make it. And, you know, this is... Because you're going to make the triangle first, you can go back and look at it and see if you like it. So if it's looking not how you want it to look, I should probably start the other way so the tail's in the back, then you can go and adjust it and make it look just how you want. So I'm going to just try something to begin with and see how I like it. It might be a little different from how I did it the first time. Let's see, I want to kind of get it right. in the center here so i'm gonna go into this actual stitch just a little bit here to help me anchor it. do a triangle first see how i like it. is that big enough for me? kind of small actually i think even though i did two i might want to go a little bit bigger let's see i don't know i kind of well what i can do also once i make the first triangle i can then Make it even bigger without having to take everything out by just coming down and going right over what I did. So let's do that because we can always pull this out if we're not liking how it looks. Yeah, I think I want it a little bit bigger, so I'm going to go with that. Then what you're going to do is you're just going to fill in the space with more long stitches. So you're just going to keep going into that center stitch. So you can either keep that outline and go right below it or, you know, pull one of the yarns how I've got it going, but you're just gonna go back and forth filling in that stitch. So I want it to be like a V and not just like straight across, so I'm gonna kind of overlap them a little bit to get that look. I'm not sure if I like how this one strand is out, but I'm gonna stick with it for right right now and see how I end up liking it at the end. Okay, I'm gonna talk about this strand right here. It's okay, actually. I want to get another strand up here because it's kind of missing right there. One more right here. Hopefully wool sticks to itself so it won't be hard to weave it. All right, I like it. Yes, that will work. So do what you like, you know, do a couple tries. If you don't like the first one, it's easy to just yank it out and start over. So but for me, I like that nose. That's going to be our nose. So let's go fill this guy up and take a look at the final product. And that is the owl basket. It is all complete. I actually added one more strip over there on top of the nose to give it two strands. I was just not quite digging the one strand, so you can do that as well with the other end of your yarn if you still have some left. But this is the pattern. I hope you guys liked it. I would love for you to share what you've made so be sure to tag me on everything. All my links are below. I'm going to be releasing all of my paid patterns for free like this. Eventually it will take me a while but if there is one that you just can't wait for and you want me to push it to the beginning of the line be sure to leave me a comment. So that I can take that into consideration for when I make the next one, so be sure to hit the like, subscribe, share this if you know somebody else that would enjoy making this, and hit that notification bell so that you don't miss out when I release my next free pattern. 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