If you know Little Crochet Farm, you know already that I love to create chubby animals! Chubby lion is the favorite from the crowd, chubby bunny super easy and cute and take a look at the chubby frog prince, he is amazing! Last week was the Chubby Unicorn and Chubby Tiger turn and today, I introduce to you the Chubby Hippo!
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Chubby Hippo free amigurumi pattern
Materials:
- 2mm crochet hook
- For this chubby Hippo I chose two shades of gray. Light worsted wool (DK).
- Black thread for embroidering the eyes.
- Stuffing material
- Scissors
- Sewing needle.
- Or, you can use safety eyes! The position is at the end of this post.
Finish size: 8cm or 3 inches
For a low cost, ad-free printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here!
And on Etsy here!
CHUBBY BODY
With gray yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
4 rnd (2sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
5 rnd (3sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
6 rnd (4sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
7 rnd (5sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
8 to 15 rnd 42sc
16 rnd (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
17 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
18 rnd (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
19 rnd (2sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
• Stop here for stuffing the head
20 rnd (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten off and hide the remaining tail inside the toy.
EARS
Start with dark gray
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
• Change to light gray
3 rnd (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing it.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
NOSE
With light gray yarn chain 7. Skip the first chain and start,
1 rnd (5sc, 4sc in the last chain, 4sc, 3sc in the last chain) Total 16sc
2 rnd (1inc, 5sc, 1inc, 1sc) repeat 2 times Total 20sts
3 rnd (1inc, 6sc, 1inc, 2sc) repeat 2 times Total 24sts
4 rnd 1sc, 1inc, 7sc, 1inc, 3sc, 1inc, 7sc, 1inc, 2sc Total 28sts
5 to 7 rnd 28sc
8 rnd 1sc, 1dec, 7sc, 1dec, 3sc, 1dec, 7sc, 1dec, 2sc Total 24sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing it.
LEGS
With dark gry yarn start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd 12bpsc
• Change to light gray color,
4 to 6 rnd 12sc
• Cut the yarn, fasten off and leave a tail for sewing it.
• Make four in total.
ASSEMBLY
- Sew the ears between rounds 5 and 6.
- Embroider the eyes in round 6, leaving 6 stitches between each other.
- Start sewing the mouth between rounds 8 and 9, and finishing between rounds 14 and 15.
- For the nose lines, embroider two lines in the 4th round of the mouth, leaving 4 stitches between them.
- Finish by embroidering the mouth between rounds 1 and 2 of the detail!
- Sew the paws under the chubby body, taking the last round as a guide to be in the middle of all four legs.
- TAIL: Insert the light gray color yarn in the central part of the back chubby body and chain 5. Make 4 single crochet, cut the yarn and fasten off.
Congratulations!!!
Your Chubby Hippo amigurumi is ready!
I hope you enjoy this pattern, and if you have any questions or comments in general, leave them in the comment box below.
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See you next time!
Love,
Ana
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