Shuttle, size 40 Lizbeth #114 Sea Shells, 2 shuttles CTM. So, I happened to run across the tat-a-long from 2008 that Jane Eborall did, and it was a hippo. Since we’ve had a new baby hippo at our local zoo this year, and have enjoyed seeing it’s videos as it learns to do things -so cute - I thought I’d give it a try. Jane’s tat-a-longs always push the envelop and force you to learn new things -hope I can keep up! I had no idea at all how much thread, so wound 2 shuttles CTM with 5 arm stretches on each… we’ll see. UPDATE: Plenty of thread on my tiny tiny shuttles, with plenty left over :)

OH! and I followed Mike Myers lead about doing an ‘open mouth’ version.

I learned so much, thanks to Jane Eborall’s cunning split ring wizardry!

You can download the pdf for one concise pattern, here: http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/Hippo.pdf -but the day by day tat-a-long actually has more detail, as there is a graph for each day of a small area to do.

Day 1: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-1-of-first-...
Day 2: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-2.html
Day 3: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-3.html
Day 4: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-4.html
Day 5: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-5.html
Day 6: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-6.html
Day 7: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-7.html
Day 8: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-8.html
Day 9: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-9.html
Day 10: http://tatitandsee.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/day-10-last-par...