Knits for baby

Yes, another knit post!  I promise I will post something about sewing in the upcoming weeks.   I hope to do a quilt update/post after next weekend. I should have some time to work on it.  So its knits for now!  With all the sinus headaches I have been having this week, I took a break from my sweater and decided to do some quick knits for the baby.  I found an adorable frog hat with mitts on ravelry and decided I would give it a try!   I am pretty happy with the results and we plan on bringing baby home in the hat and mitts.  I still have socks I want to make to go along with the ensemble.

The one thing I have to state , as others have stated on this site, there are no instructions for the eyes which makes it difficult. I will tell you how I sewed my eyes on and you can see if its helpful or not. For me I found the whip stitch took me a try or two to get it down.  I found a very helpful video which shows the best way to do it.  This stitch is used to sew the white of the eye to the green of the eye.  Here is the link to the Whip stitch   http://www.ehow.com/video_4940669_sew-whip-stitch.html

So once I sewed the white of the eye to the green of they eye, I then made a seem from the white of the eye to the bind off stitches. This made a tube.  At this point I stuffed the eye. I placed the open end of the tube 8-10 rows down from the top and began sewing.  I tied a knot in the end of my yarn and went up through the hat to the bind off stitches  I did this 2-3 times just to get the eye attached. I will tell you, starting the eye is really hard and a third hand could have helped.  Once I got some of the eye attached I used the mattress stitch to go around the out line of the eye all except the front.  Once I got to the front I then pushed the white of the eye back to where I liked the look best.  This makes the eye more round.  Once I found the desired location of the eye, I then attached the front by sewing from inside the hat through the green line at the bottom of the eye. Just sewing up an down to attach.  Keep sewing the mattress stitch on the other side and your eye is attached. Just push the rest of the yarn inside and weave in ends.  I didn't think to take any pictures, but I will try to make some time with leftover yarn to post pictures so you can see what I did.  I hope many of you found this helpful!!!