A small cable owl with at moss/seed stitch body. Note: the 1st and last stitch of round 1-17, and K4 of round 18 is the background pattern, feel free to increase and/or change it up.
Ideally repeated horizontally. From personal experience, if you want to repeat vertically: - Work row 18 in all K (work the middle 4 sts according on your background sts) - skip round 19. Otherwise the background stitch will get squashed from all the cables and it just looks weird.
Shown with a cast-on count of 10 stitches.