How To Crochet Animal Eyes
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- Crocheted Eyes For Amigurumi
I love seeing the different ways crocheters add facial features to my patterns. Different interpretations of eyes, noses, and mouths can give each creation such original expressions!
Adding eyes to amigurumis can add a lot of personality to a project. For the most part, many people – myself included – like to use safety eyes. But sometimes safety eyes aren’t easy to find or they’re a little more costly than you might like. Or maybe you’re just unsure of how they will hold up in a toy given to a baby or small child. A great alternative to using safety eyes is to crochet your own! My friend, Linda, crochets all of the eyes for her creations, and she helped me create the following tutorial for you.
When making eyes for a “normal” sized amigurumi (not one of patterns from my Big Hugs or Little Explorers collections), you will use black yarn (or your preferred color) yarn and a smaller hook. Linda uses double knitting or 4-ply yarn (in the US, DK weight yarn is a perfect substitute) and either a 2.5mm or 3mm hook (a C hook will do). Choose a yarn that isn’t too fluffy – cotton seems to work quite well.
Animal Eyes Mosaic Crochet Square
Work either 6sc or 8hdc into a magic circle. Try these in various combinations to give you different size eyes. Join with a slip st or an invisible join (cut your yarn leaving a length for sewing it to your project).
Take some white crochet thread (or non-fluffy thin white yarn) and using a yarn needle, bring the needle up through the magic circle and round the outside of your black crocheted circle (where your join was made) and push your needle back up through the magic circle again. Do this 4 or 5 times. Tie the white ends together on the underside of the eye to keep the white stitches tight. This is probably the trickiest bit.
Then take your black yarn again and work a few stitches over the end of your white stitches so that you get a complete black border. This method should give you a neat white highlight, and you might be more likely to get two eyes that looked the same than when just embroidered with white yarn!
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Sew the eyes on after stuffing the head using the ends of the white thread to secure the eye in the correct place and then stitch round the outside using the remaining black yarn. You can always sew a few extra stitches round the outside if the eye doesn’t look quite round or you decide it needs to be a little bigger. You can also add eye lashes, like in this Annie the Angel.
If you want to add tension to the eyes, just take some matching black yarn through the head & up through the magic circle and down within the eye. Then take the yarn back through the head and come out at the same point you started from. Tie the ends together in a knot and use a yarn needle to thread the ends back into the stuffing of the head.
For larger projects like Bella the Little Teddy Bear from my Little Explorers collection, you could add a bit of color (brown) by sewing your colored eye onto the larger white circle in place of the safety eye.
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For even larger eyes for a bigger project (Linda used a 5mm hook and James C Brett Flutterby yarn for her Sally the Little Hippo) , you could try using a worsted weight yarn and a larger hook.
Just by using different stitches, yarn and hook sizes you should be able to crochet eyes that will work with any of your crocheted projects.
I hope you found this tutorial interesting! Please make sure you send some love to Linda for helping out with this post! You can find her on Facebook!
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My name is Carolina Guzmán. I'm the crochet pattern designer behind One and Two Company. I hope that your crochet hooks never stop dancing in my little world. View all posts by Carolina GuzmanHi everyone! I wanted to share today one of my favorite alternatives to plastic safety eyes when making amigurumi. And bonus, they are fast and easy!
I have made some with worsted black yarn but it just didn't meet the look I was going for when the eye needed to be on a smaller scale.
There are many reasons we look for an alternative to plastic safety eyes. The most popular reason being the recipient of our beautiful creation is a little one under 3.
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I now make most of my amigurumis with plastic safety eyes because my kids are over this age and the fact that they pop in quickly!
With that being said though, I have to admit I love the look of using crochet thread. By the time I'm done, it was worth a few extra minutes. Here's an example from the Amigurumi Cow Pattern!
To make these I used a 2.25mm hook (2.5mm should work just fine too) and size 10 black crochet thread. I also use some white to add a little reflection from time to time for added detail.
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I know a lot of you may have embroidery thread/floss on hand and this can be used too, however, it is thicker so you may want to bring it down to 4 ply instead.
On an off note, I absolutely love crochet thread! The beautiful color selection they now come in are amazing! I use them often to make tiny flowers like in these hair clips.
Ok, back on track now...... these eyes work up fast and can be sewn on your amigurumi project before or after you close the head. You can also easily add eyelashes as you sew them on!
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I used the 12mm size below for my Cuddly Caterpillar pattern! It was perfect to add a bit of reflection and detail!
NOTE: For any of the sizes chosen below, fasten off at the end and be sure to leave a long tail to sew onto your amigurumi project
To add a reflection take a small amount of white crochet thread and pass through a stitch once or twice as pictured below, secure and fasten off.
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I told you they would be easy! Be sure to PIN this tutorial to pull it up for a future project you would like to use them on.
Be sure to join the Grace and Yarn Crochet Groupon Facebook! You can share your projects, favorite patterns and ask any questions you may have along the way.Find your existing way of making eyes for your amigurumi boring? Or maybe you just want to switch things up and see what other options there are for making crochet eyes. Look no further for 10 creative ideas to use for amigurumi eyes!
Here I have some tried and tested ideas for eyes and some that others have used that are on my wish list to try. Either way, keep these suggestions at the back of your mind so that when you start on your next amigurumi, you have ideas to experiment.
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I split them into 2 broad categories which are either you use an external accessory to attach to the amigurumi or you use a specific crafting technique to place the eyes onto the amigurumi. Let's get started!
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This is where most amigurumi crocheters start off with because it is relatively easy to get hold off and it gives a nice glossy dimension to the yarn. Most would start off with safety eyes, I used glass eyes at one point, recycled cloth, googly eyes or button eyes. I will go through them in further detail below.
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Since here we mentioned about making then these are some ideas on techniques to create eyes, which could range from crocheting, sewing, embroidery to even felting techniques. Even if you are not familiar with these techniques, sometimes they are worth experimenting to try out new styles for your amigurumi!
Let's talk about commonly used safety eyes, other ideas like using cloth for eyes and even though I have not tried them myself, thought to add in googly eyes and buttons as eyes too.
Plastic safety eyes sizes can range from 3mm all the way to 30mm. Most commonly for palm sized amigurumi I would pick 4mm while for larger plushies perhaps 6mm.
Positioning Amigurumi Eyes
They come with thick stalks attached to the back, which means that sometimes (depending on yarn weight), direct insertion into the face is not easy. So my preference is to crochet around it so that the stitches are tight and the eyes are secure.
There is also a washer component at the back, meant to secure down the stalk and once it is clipped down along the ridges of the stalk, it is no longer removable. Even though they are definitely safer for children to play with, sometimes the stitches may come loose and the eyes may fall out.
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