Made of scraps of Palette in white, red, brown, orange, green, and yellow. Seamed with blue, and with blue for the eye motifs.

Following LaurenC’s suggestion of skipping round 5 and joining the motifs with SC:

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/LaurenC/happypotamus-the-...

It was only when I got to the nose that I thought of a simple way to make the ends of the seams neater, by drawing a loop through the end of whatever seam abuts the seam I’m working on. D’oh! Well, I went back and used a yarn needle and blue yarn to tidy up a few of the gaps that showed the most.

Since I skipped round 5 I needed to make the ears cup more, so on round 3 I worked only 5 DCs into each chain space instead of 7.

Skipping round 5 made a more petite hippo and REALLY cut down on the hours needed to create her! I think she’s absolutely adorable :) :) :)