The wings
Brace yourself. It's time. Time to learn the magic loop. Pick up your main yarn color (either orange or blue) and watch this tutorial:
Magic loop giving you trouble? Try this easier chain method instead. It'll probably leave you with a hole in the middle, but that's OK – you gotta do what you gotta do to make a circle.
Whether you made a circle using the magic loop or chain method, give yourself a pat on the back for finishing Round 1. Now make the rest of the wing:
Round 1: | 6 sc in magic loop | (6) |
Round 2: | 6 sc | (6) |
Round 3: | [sc, inc] x 3 | (9) |
Round 4: | [2 sc, inc] x 3 | (12) |
Tip
If you're having trouble seeing the stitches in this teeny tiny magic loop, use the 3 stitch markers that came in your kit and mark the stitches as you make them.
Before finishing the piece, you'll do a few more stitches to seal the wings off:
Once they're sealed off, they're ready to sew on between rounds 8 and 9 of the body, 3 stitches away from each eye: