How to sew a hippopotamus: patterns, step by step instructions, video

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

A cool hippo made of fabric or leather is a wonderful gift and a charming piece of furniture. Even a novice craftswoman can make it on her own. All she needs is a hippo pattern, the necessary tools and materials, and step-by-step instructions.

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Today, many teenage girls hang cute stuffed animals from their backpacks. You can make, for example, such a charming pendant.

To work, you will need a hippo pattern.

Still needed:

• fabric in three colors: dark gray, light gray, pink;
• fabric pen (self-disappearing);
• filler (synthetic winterizer, pieces of foam rubber, cotton wool);
• threads;
• needle;
• scissors.

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This is the easiest DIY hippo soft toy to make.

Patterns of all details are transferred to the fabric. Make allowances forseams are not needed. The master should lay the parts as close as possible to each other so that there is as little space as possible between them.

Torso cut their dark gray fabric. To work, you need two of these parts. Spots, muzzle trim and nails are cut from light gray fabric. Pink will be the inner parts of the ears and nostrils. The eyes are made black.

You can not cut out the eyes and nostrils, but draw them or sew buttons or beads on these places.

How to sew a hippo

The detail pattern is finished. It's time to assemble the product.

1. First work on the front half of the suspension. Spots are sewn onto the back of the body. You can make an appliqué with any stitch: overcast or “forward needle” if the fabric does not fray.
2. Then the nostrils are sewn onto the overlay. On it, a mouth is laid with a stalk seam.
3. Now the finished patch is sewn onto the bottom of the muzzle. You can make it flat - this option is suitable for completely inexperienced craftswomen. But more sophisticated dressmakers can put a little filler between the lining and the base. To do this, the seam is not finished, leaving a small hole, but without cutting the thread. A filler is stuffed through it. The hole is then sewn up.
4. The front part of the torso is decorated with pink details for the inside of the ears.
5. It remains only to sew or embroider eyes.
6. The rear half of the suspension is much easier to do. You only need to sew spots on this part.
7. Both halves of the pendant are connected face outward. Along the edge of the part, the already selected seam is sewn together. Whenthere is a hole about a centimeter, sewing is temporarily stopped.
8. Now you need to stuff filler inside the hippopotamus. After that, the hole is sewn up.
9. The final stage of work is the patching of toenails. To do this, each piece is folded in half inside out and ironed.
10. Then the nails should be tacked to the bottom seam of each leg so that one half protrudes in front and the other in the back of the craft.

You can glue spots, nails, nostrils, the inner parts of the ears, but glue them. Then it will take much less time to craft.

Flat hippopotamus with moving legs

This version of the craft is already more difficult. Here you will need to make a separate muzzle of the animal, head, torso and four legs.

The toy hippo pattern and detailed instructions in the video will help you make this craft.

Cutting out parts for a 3D hippo toy

This manufacturing option is the most difficult. It is suitable for already experienced craftswomen. But the result is a voluminous hippo toy.

The pattern of all details is done with seam allowances.

Nuances of the pattern:

1. The pattern of the sides of the body with legs is first superimposed on the material on one side and outlined with a felt-tip pen for fabric. Then the pattern is turned over and circled again. This is how asymmetrical details are obtained.
2. The insert for the back is made according to the drawing with redoutline.



3. The detail of the tummy and tail is made in one copy. Feet can be made from fabric of a different color. But the ears are made in pairs. You will need two parts from the base material. Two more are cut out of fabric of a different color. They will be required to decorate the inner parts of the ears.



4. You will need two parts for the top and bottom of the head. The connecting strip between them is not given in the drawing in full format. The pattern is applied to the fold of the fabric with a dotted line. All these details are cut from the main fabric.
5. The inside of the mouth must be cut out of red fabric, and the teeth - and dense white material, you can use leather or its substitute.

When the pattern for the hippo toy is finished, you can start sewing.

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You can sew the toy inside out. Then then you should turn out all the details there. And you can sew on the front side with an overlock seam.

Sequence of actions:

1. The detail of the tummy with legs is folded in half and either ironed or a mark is placed along the contour at the fold.
2. One half is sewn to the lower part of one side of the body, and the second to the other.
3. The loose top of the torso needs to be sewn with a “forward needle” seam and slightly pulled off.
4. The insert is sewn into the back so that there is a hole in the front.
5. The tail is folded in half. The triangle is stitched along the hypotenuse. Attach the part to the backtorso.
6. Now sew the feet to the bottom of the legs.
7. The finished body is stuffed with filler.
8. The connecting strip for the head is sewn to the top. The edges of the part must match the places marked with crosses in the drawing. Before working along the edge of the strip, you need to pass the “forward needle” seam. Then the thread must be slightly pulled off the thread. This achieves the coincidence of the edges of the parts.
9. The inside of the mouth is folded in half and ironed.
10. The top half is tacked onto the part that has just been worked on, remembering to fix the two teeth in the right places. After that, they are already sewn with the main seam.
11. Then sew the lower part of the head, not forgetting to pull off the edge of the connecting strip in the same way as it was done with the top. The front will be stitched to the inside of the mouth. When basting details, you should not forget about the lower teeth of the hippo.
12. The ears are sewn in pairs: one part is from the main fabric, the second is from a material of a different color. It is necessary to fix them on the head, slightly turning them inward.
13. The hippo's head is stuffed with filler and sewn to the body.

Using these workshops and patterns, you can make cute animals as a gift or decorate your home with designer toys. Hippos will also look lovely as accessories on a purse or backpack, on a guitar or as a key chain.