Sharing this special collection with you, the Safari crochet animals! This collection was created especially for my baby girl, with the help of you, readers from Little Crochet Farm. A while back, I asked about which collection should I create for her, and the majority of you voted for a Safari crochet Animals!
Today I share with you this beautiful Hippo amigurumi! One more free amigurumi pattern for the Safari Animals! The collection has 12 crochet animals that slowly will start coming out online! I hope you have some fun crocheting these animals!
update: Zebra, Elephant, Giraffe and Lion are online!
Hello there! My name is Ana! Welcome to Little crochet farm.
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Hippo free crochet pattern
Materials:
- 2mm crochet hook
- Schachenmayr Catania Sports Yarn weight colors. Or, any sports weight yarn colors light purple and gray.
- 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: 18cm or (about) 7 inches.
For a low cost, ad-free and printable pattern, you can find it in Ravelry here!
And on Etsy here!
HEAD
With purple 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 rnd (6sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 48sts
9 to 17 rnd 48sc
18 rnd (6sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
19 rnd (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
20 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
21 rnd (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
• Add stuffing material.
• Cut the yarn and fasten it off. Leave a long tail for sewing it.
BODY
With purple 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 rnd (6sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 48sts
9 to 23 rnd 48sc
23 rnd (6sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 42sts
24 rnd (5sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 36sts
25 rnd (4sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 30sts
26 rnd (3sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 24sts
27 to 30 rnd 24sc
• Add stuffing material.
• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
NOSE
With purple 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 rnd 1sc, 1inc, 9sc, 1inc, 3sc, 1inc, 9sc, 1inc, 2sc Total 32sts
6 to 8 rnd 32sc
9 rnd 1sc, 1dec, 9sc, 1dec, 3sc, 1dec, 9sc, 1dec, 2sc Total 28sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten it off, and leave a tail for sewing it.
EARS
Start with light gray,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
• Change to purple
3 rnd (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
• Cut the yarn, fasten it off, and leave a tail for sewing it.
• Make another one following the same instructions.
PAWS
With light gray start,
1 rnd 6sc in a magic ring
2 rnd 6inc Total 12sts
3 rnd (1sc, 1inc) repeat 6 times Total 18sts
4 and 5 rnd 18sc
6 rnd (1sc, 1dec) repeat 6 times Total 12sts
• Change to purple,
7 to 15 rnd 12sc
16 rnd 6sc crocheting the sides together, closing the paw.
• Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
• Make another four in total following the same instructions.
• Leave a small tail for sewing it.
TAIL
With purple chain 8. Skip the first two chains and start,
1 row 2dc, 2hdc, 2sc
•Cut the yarn and fasten it off.
•Add a couple of purple strings on the end of the sc, making a little puff at the end of the tail.
ASSEMBLY
- Introduce two rounds of the body inside the head. Sew the head taking the second round (counting from top to bottom) of the body.
- Sew the top paws in the first round of the body, just right on the edge under the neck, leaving 6 stitches between one to another.
- Sew the down paws in round 10 of the body, leaving 15 stitches between one to another.
- Sew the tail in the central part of the back in round 11.
- Sew the snout between rounds 10 to 20, or, two rounds above the neck.
- Sew the ears between rounds 6 to 8.
- With an embroidering needle, embroider the eyes in round 9 (or one round above the snout) of the face leaving 5 stitches between them.
- With the same thread, embroider the eyebrows on two rounds above the eye, taking the length of 2 stitches.
- OPTIONAL: with pink yarn, make two little lines on its cheeks, two rounds under the eye, and 1 stitch away from the snout.
Congratulations!!!
Your Hippo crochet animal 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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