Hey folks, I’ve got another brand new FREE crochet pattern to share with you today that I’ve designed in collaboration with Woolbox. Fresh from splashing through the swamps, it’s a cute and cuddly crochet Green Hippo!
If you’ve not heard about Woolbox before they are a new online yarn company with a wealth of knitting and crochet knowledge. With the help of different designers, they are beginning to develop some FREE patterns of their own using their brand of yarn – and I’m delighted to be helping them out with that.
You may remember I shared the Blue Rhino, Pink Elephant and Golden Monkey amigurumi, and now we’ve got a fourth ‘Jungle Friend’ crochet pattern to make.
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For my Green Hippo, I used Woolbox Imagine Classic DK (Double Knit / Light Worsted). If you aren’t familiar with this yarn, it’s a smoothly spun 100% anti-pilling acrylic; anti-pilling means that any project you make with this yarn should not ‘pill’ (go bobbly) over time.
Woolbox Imagine Classic DK is available in 26 different colours (and they are adding shades all the time). I just used two different colours for my Hippo; Emerald Green (a rich, vibrant shade of green) and Evergreen (a deep rich green that resembles the foliage of fir trees) with a 3.5mm (US size E/4) hook. Other than that you would need a pair of black 12mm safety eyes, some stitch markers, some toy filler, pins and a yarn needle to sew all the pieces together.
The pattern is available for FREE from the Woolbox as just the digital download for the pattern or as a yarn kit – I’ve added the links below:
The pattern is written in UK terms, but shipping is available to anywhere. If you are not sure about UK terms then you might find my blog post British vs. American Crochet Terms: What’s the Difference? helpful.
If you make up the Woolbox Green Hippo I hope you will share your finished project photos with me on social media (facebook, X (twitter) or instagram), or as a project on Ravelry – I love to see what you make! And finally you may wish to sign up to blog (below) and / or my mailing list to get a reminder when new blog posts, discounts or new pattern releases are available.
Until next time folks! Happy hooking and keep calm and crochet on my friends xx
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