Meet our Hippo. She’s smaller than your usual hippo, but she thinks that just makes her cuter and much more cuddly.

This Hippo is suitable for advanced beginner knitters and assumes an understanding of basic stitches and standard knitting terms. Our Hippo is knit flat and sewn together using a mattress stitch.

If you’re new to knitting stuffed friends, or are uncomfortable winging it without strict guidelines (that’s OK, we all need good directions sometimes to help us out) you will need approximately 55 m of medium weight grey yarn for the head, legs and body. With this yarn, use 4 mm (US size 6) needles. You will also need a small amount of black yarn for the face, stuffing (we use ecofil or wool) and a tapestry needle to sew your hippo together. This will let you create a hippo that’s approximately 14 cm (5.5 inches), in length.

The beauty of knitting stuffed friends is that this pattern can be knit in any size yarn with accompanying needles. Generally we find using a size or two smaller needles than required by the yarn allows for the tightness needed when you’re stuffing your finished product.

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