We knit mittens with eyes and ears for children!

How do you want a small native man to have comfortable clothes, so that he was warm and cozy in it! And it is also desirable that the children's clothes be beautiful and cheerful, combine the developmental or semantic load.

That is why many mummies and grandmothers prefer to make clothes for their own crumbs with their own hands, decorating it with original appliqués, tying up prints with cartoon stories or alphabet. We sew wonderful clothes and little suits for children, we knit children with knitting needles original warm blouses and hats, we untie crochet lacy mitts and knee-highs, collars and frill. And it should be noted that many craftsmen cope with this so artistically, their work is of such a high level that they are often much better than factory ones.

But, perhaps, the first thing we do, only knowing the basics of knitting, is knitting mittens with knitting needles for children. But even such usual children's little things can be made original, decorating them with the help of buttons and additional details. It's amazing, but with very little imagination, it's so easy to turn ordinary gloves into lovely little animals, for example, into mice!

If we knit mittens for children on five knitting needles, after distributing the required number of loops, we evenly distribute them on four spokes, leaving the fifth for work. This process of knitting is called circular, one row includes tying the loops from all four spokes.

Begins knitting from the cuff. It should be connected with an elastic band, about 5 or 6 cm in height. Then, the knitting of the main part of the glove goes on, which is performed most often by facial loops. Later, after acquiring a sufficient level of skill, the knitter will be able to use in the manufacture of the product and other more complex and beautiful drawings.

Having pierced from the cuff 2 - 3 cm (this distance depends on the set size of the thing), you should take 5 - 6 loops on the safety pin to further loosen the thumb. In the next circular row at the place of the removed loops you need to collect as many air and continue tying. Thus, at the location of the future finger of the gloves, an aperture is formed so far.

When the process of knitting reaches the tip of the little finger, the mitten must begin to "close", reducing gradually the number of loops in the row. It is best to do this at the beginning of the first and third spokes, and also at the end of the second and fourth.

If the reduction (tying the two loops together one) does not at the very beginning or end of the knitting needle, but with an indentation in one loop, then you can get a beautiful trimmed scar at the edges of the top of the mitten. The remaining 2 loops on each spoke are pulled off the cut end of the working thread and tied into a knot. The free tip of the thread can be hidden inside the glove, or you can attach a fluffy pompom to it.

Yes, do not forget that we knit mittens to children. Therefore, you can "turn" the product into funny kittens, sewing up the tied up ears to the top of the glove, and on the back side of the mitten, having decorated with a technique of appliquing the cat's muzzle.

If we knit mittens for children for up to a year, then do not need a thumb hole on the mitten. But you should take care that the mittens do not fly off the baby's palm. To do this, some craftswomen sew to the cuff laces or pass the elastic band.

If we knit mittens to older children, then we can not do without finger loosening. To do this, we transfer the loops left on the pin to the needle, from above, through the air hinges of the hole, we get another 8 loops tied to the last loop removed, we evenly distribute them on three spokes, and the fourth one is used as a working one.

We knit a thumb in the same way, in a circle. Having reached the base of the nail of the thumb, we begin to decrease, tying two loops together on each spoke. The very end of the work is similar to how it was done, finishing the basic detail of the mitten.

As you can see, it's easy to tie your sweet little gloves to your kid, it would be patience and desire!