The Owl dress!

When I was contemplating Newlook 6504, all I could see was an owl on the dress. So I designed my own. Here are a few photos of my process. First I drew an owl and cut fabric pieces to match. It took months because my sewing machine died on the first pass making the eyes. After which I was paranoid. I attempted a 2nd time and had no success. With my trusted thread ripper, I undid the eyes and redid them again with the machine, you can see the final result at the very bottom! It even has owl buttons.