Friends, today we will crochet a very easy hippo amigurumi. Amigurumi is made using velvet yarn. When you use velvet yarn, amigurumi is much easier to crochet. The biggest reason for this is the lack of small details. You usually crochet in a simple way.
Velvet Purple Hippo Toy
Also, hippo free amigurumi pattern is not very big in size. For this reason, if you are going to crochet with normal yarn, it will be quite small. I recommend using velvet yarn. You can make a plush hippo in a very short time. You can see the required materials in the description section. Now let’s crochet hippo pattern amigurumi step by step.
Required materials:
1. Yarn YARNaRt dolce (lilac color); iris yarn (black)
2. Hook 3mm.
3. Eyes 12mm on a secure mount
4. Scissors, white thread, needle, marker.
5. Filler (holofiber)
Abbreviations
MR – Amigurumi Magic ring
sc : Single Crochet
inc : Increase
dec : Decrease
st: Stitch
dc : Double Crochet
hdc: Half Double Crochet
sl-st : Slip Stitch
ch : Chain
Legs
1Rnd: 6sc in MR
2Rnd: 6inc (12)
3Rnd: BLO 12 sc
4-6Rnd: 12 sc
7Rnd: 1 sc – dec (8)
8-9Rnd: 8 sc
Cut off the thread.
We fill it with holofiber.
Arms
1Rnd: 6sc in MR
2Rnd: 1 sc-inc (9)
3Rnd: 9 sc
4Rnd: 1 sc-dec (6)
5-6Rnd: 6 sc
Cut off the yarn, do not stuff.
Ears:
1Rnd: 6sc in MR
2Rnd: 6inc (12)
Body:
1Rnd: 6sc in MR
2Rnd: 6inc (12)
3Rnd: 1sc-inc (18)
4Rnd: 2sc-inc (24)
We crochet the legs:
5Rnd: 4sc-(legs 4sc)-7sc-(legs 4sc)-5sc (24)
6-9Rnd: 24sc
10Rnd: 2sc -dec (18)
11Rnd: 18sc
We crochet the arms:
12Rnd: 4sc-(arms 3sc)-5sc-(arms 3sc)-3sc (18)
We leave a long thread for sewing on the head, fill it with holofiber.
Head:
1Rnd: 5ch
2Rnd: Starting from the second loop: inc-2sc-2inc-3sc-inc (13)
3Rnd: inc-1 sc (20)
4Rnd: 2sc-inc-5sc-inc-2sc-inc-8sc (23)
5-7Rnd: 23sc
8Rnd: 2sc-dec * 4 times -1 sc-dec *2times – 1 sc
9Rnd: 2sc-(1hdc-inc(hdc)*3times)-1 hdc-8sc
10Rnd: 3sc-(1hdc-2inc(hdc)*7times-2hdc-7sc (33)
11-12Rnd: 33sc
13Rnd: 3sc – dec – at the end 3 sc
14Rnd: 2sc – dec – at the end 3 sc
Eyes 8 row between the eyes 2 inc (hdc)
15Rnd: 1 sc-dec
16Rnd: 8dec
Fill the head with holofiber, pull off the hole. Sew the head to the body.
Assembly:
We make a tightening of the eyes and over the muzzle.
Sew on all the details (ears). We embroider the nose (with lilac yarn), the eyebrows with black yarn.
