Amigurumi Crochet Hippo Free Pattern
Hello dear Amigurumi Followers,
Today we share one free amigurumi crochet pattern again for you. As you know, we share new amigurumi free patterns every day. Today’s daily new amigurumi free crochet pattern is Amigurumi Crochet Hippo.
I want to give you some information about this pattern:
A free amigurumi pattern to make an adorable hippo. The finished toy makes a gorgeous gift for kids. You only need basic crochet skills for this project.
Designed and photos by @bumbee_crochet
Materials:
- Yarn: Alize Cotton Gold Tweed (grey) and Alize Cotton Gold (beige)
- Hook size: 2.0 mm
- 8 mm safety eyes
- A piece of grey felt
- Fabric glue
- Black and white embroidery floss
- Sewing needle and scissors
- Fiberfill
Abbreviations:
- R = row
- mc = magic circle
- ch = chain
- st = stitch
- sl st = slip stitch
- sc = single crochet
- inc = 2 sc in the next stitch
- dec = single crochet 2 stitches together
- BLO = back loop only
- F.o. = fasten off
- = 12 = number of stitches you should have at the end of the round/row
- (…) * 6 = repeat whatever is between the brackets the number of times stated
Head
With grey yarn:
- R 1: 8 sc in mc (8)
- R 2: (inc) * 8 (16)
- R 3: (1 sc, inc) * 8 (24)
- R 4: (2 sc, inc) * 8 (32)
- R 5: (3 sc, inc) * 8 (40)
- R 6-7: 40 sc (2 rows)
- R 8: (4 sc, inc) * 8 (48)
- R 9-13: 48 sc (5 rows)
- R 14: (7 sc, inc) * 6 (54)
Insert safety eyes between R 13 and R 14 at the distance of 8 st from each other.
- R 15-16: 54 sc (2 rows)
- Change to beige yarn:
- R 17: BLO 54 sl st
- R 18: BLO 54 sc
- R 19-22: 54 sc (4 rows)
- R 23: (dec, 4 sc) * 3, 9 sc, (dec, 4 sc) * 3, 9 sc (48)
- R 24: (dec, 3 sc) * 3, 9 sc, (dec, 3 sc) * 3, 9 sc (42)
- R 25: (dec, 2 sc) * 3, 9 sc, (dec, 2 sc) * 3, 9 sc (36)
- R 26: (dec, 1 sc) * 3, 9 sc, (dec, 1 sc) * 3, 9 sc (30)
- R 27: 3 dec, 9 sc, 3 dec, 9 sc (24)
- F.o. and leave a long tail for sewing.