leftover lace tinypotamus
Finished
March 15, 2014
March 22, 2014

leftover lace tinypotamus

Project info
Happypotamus The Happy Hippo by Heidi Bears
Crochet
SoftiesAnimal
me, I hope
small :)
Hooks & yarn
2.25 mm (B)
Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace
328
Red-purple
Woolie Ewe in Plano, Texas
Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace
328
Red-purple
Woolie Ewe in Plano, Texas
Debbie Bliss Rialto Lace
328
Pink
Woolie Ewe in Plano, Texas
Knit Picks Shadow
14909
Gray
Knit Picks
Notes

UPDATE: next time I will use a smaller hook with this yarn! there was more openness than I generally like in a stuffed animal, although he is still very cute, and somewhat tiny!
I did stuff him very very full, and did run out of the light pink, so used the lipstick pink on 3 pentagons (one is under his chin, the other two are the eye pentagons). I also ran out of the basalt heather when I got to his muzzle and used some opal heather on the muzzle. It’s very close in color, and hardly noticeable in the indoor light in my apt… although bluer in natural light. The eye color change helps soften that transition too, I think. I also did add a tail.

My phone had difficulty photographing the true colours and made him look much more washed out than he is.

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made with leftover laceweight yarn from my recently completed Chocolate-Covered Cherry Colour Affection, and some leftover laceweight from my Foggy Haruni.

I suspect I will run out of the light pink I’m using for the flower part of the ---gons, but I will make as many hexi and pentas in equal measures in the light pink and then use the medium pink for the rest and mix them in when joining together.

So far I’m loving the tiny size, even though I could have easily used a smaller hook, the one I’m using is working well… will see how it fills out when the fluffing is put in.

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  • Project created: March 15, 2014
  • Finished: March 23, 2014
  • Updated: January 18, 2016
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