This 12-page PDF contains THE BASIC BODY SHAPE AND THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE HIPPO. Check out my Ravelry Store for all the other Furry Friends.

I give loads of detailed information in my patterns with hints and tips and tricks.

I have designed this pattern to have almost NO SEWING!

This pattern is written to be very beginner friendly. I have a FULL PHOTO TUTORIAL at the end of the pattern. There are 5 full pages of photos at the end with step-by-step visuals to make this a very beginner friendly pattern.

For the more advanced crocheter, these work up in under 2 hours for me!

These small toys range in size from 9-12” and require minimal materials and time.

Most of my toy patterns are made with 4-ply worsted weight yarn scraps like Red Heart Super Saver, Caron One Pound and Impeccable Yarn.

This set of patterns was born because through the years I had obtained a giant storage bin full of “fur” type yarns that I wanted to de-stash. My stash included almost every brand of eyelash/fun fur yarns like Lion Brand Fun Fur, Red Heart Fun Fur, Eyelash Ice Yarn, Bernat Bling Bling, Patons Cha Cha, an unmarked furry ribbon yarn and more. A lot of these were unmarked and I am sure discontinued, but I also worked some of these up with Scrubby Yarn that you can purchase as I write this. Hobby Lobby carries a wide variety of fun fur yarns as well.

You can also use this pattern with some newer yarns currently on the market. This pattern is very adaptable to many yarn types.

Materials required/recommended:

This pattern series uses a wide variety of yarns and types of yarns. Many of my fur yarns were unlabeled and therefore I have no idea how much I had, but for the bunny pattern I used 142 yds of fur. The bunny probably is the most yarn heavy pattern in this series, so I would suggest having at least 142 yds and to be safe 150 yds per animal. Many patterns here won’t take that much. For example, the chick and duck won’t take that much since they don’t have ears to make. On the chick, I didn’t have a whole skein of Red Heart Scrubby Cotton (145yds) and used all of what I had left.

To give examples with newer yarns currently on the market, I used Bernat Forever Fleece (9.9 oz/280g/194yds/177m) and Red Heart hygge (hoo-gah) (8oz/227g/212yds/194m) and had plenty of both of those left. You can probably get almost 2 animals from one skein of the RH hygge yarn.

To use the furry yarns, I always held a second strand of yarn at the same time. So, you will be holding two strands of yarn together for most of these examples if using a furry yarn.

Hooks: The hooks you will use will vary slightly depending on your yarn. You want to use a hook that will work for your yarn and give a nice animal with no holes when finished. I found that with my tension, I used my size H/5mm for most of the animals. I held one strand of 4-ply worsted weight yarn mentioned above and one strand of whatever novelty yarn that I had for most of this collection. I also used my H/5mm hook for the elephant which is the Red Heart hygge yarn and the hippo which is the Fleece yarn. These two yarns are labeled bulky and super bulky, so if you struggle with that hook and yarn, you may need to bump up one size. I will give more details on the sizes and materials for each animal in the pattern.

Additional Materials: You will also need a yarn needle big enough for your yarn, stuffing, and safety eyes if you are using those. The safety eyes that I have used are 14-20mm.

I use US Crochet terms.

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