A useful guide of where I source the different eye sizes and noses I use, including where I buy these cute heart noses
I have many sources for eyes and I own them in all sizes, colors and shapes. However, my favorite to use are solid black ones. They just seem to lend themselves to extra cuteness factor :)
This guide is focused on the tools like hooks and needles. Other useful guides:
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Small to Mid Sized Eyes
- If you want to get a good variety of sizes 6-12mm: (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk)
- For my worsted/dk animals I almost always use 8mm or 9mm eyes. You can buy these in bulk for cheap from ebay.com
Large Sized Eyes
For my larger critters I tend to use button eyes as these sizes are not often available in safety eyes:
- 20mm button eyes (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk): Usually use these when making animals with flutterby chunky.
- 25mm button eyes (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk): I use these with the chunkier yarn like the Sirder Smudge.
Animal Noses
- Triangular noses: (Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk) I usually use 7mm wide noses for worsted/dk animals and 13-15mm wide noses for bigger animals made with chunky yarn.
- Heart shaped noses: These are my favorite to use but are very hard to source. My main source for them is CelloExpress.co.uk. I use the 7mm wide ones for the worsted/dk animals and the 12mm wide ones for the bigger animals. I've recently came across another source for these heart noses in ebay.com.