Owls are totally "in", I love them too and I couldn't find a free sewing pattern for one anywhere. The only book which had an owl inside didn't have anything else that I liked. So I sat down and made a pattern of my own.

This owlie was the prototype, sewn from an old office shirt of my husband and some other fabric and felt. For my taste the "valley" between the ears is too deep and so I modified the pattern for the decent version. (See next photo.)