Cute Hippo Trio Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Three chonky hippos in a row and each one is doing something completely different. Left hippo has thrown his head back and his mouth is wide open, solid laughing energy, teeth showing, motion dashes shooting out like hes suprised by his own joke. Middle hippo is standing upright with big round eyes and pink rosy cheeks, looking alert and happy like he just heard his name called. Right hippo has given up entirely and is lying down, eyes shut, little stars drifting above. Ocured to me when I was digitising this that these three cover basically every mood Ive had on a given day.

The bodies use dense tatami fill stitching in a warm caramel brown with an orange-brown shadow layer on the lower halves and around the legs, which is what makes em look properly round and three-dimensional rather than flat. Pink satin fills on the cheeks and that gaping mouth interior, thick black outline holding everything together, and tiny white highlights on the eyes. Seven colours with 6 colour changes and at the largest 8.51-inch height the stitch count hits about 24k, which is pretty manageable for the detail level.

I made this one for a customer who needed a safari nursery set last august, she wanted three different panels for a cot mobile. She stitched each hippo separately in the smallest 4.51-inch size on white felt rounds and said they held up perfectly. Now I get messages from parents doing full safari room sets and people making stuffed animal name cushions.

Use cutaway stabiliser because the density on the body fills is high enough that tearaway can shift under tension, especially on the biggest sizes. Stitch on white cotton, cream canvas, sage linen or sky blue jersey for nursery pieces. Try the 2.62-inch width on a bib, the 5.01-inch on a cot pillowcase. Avoid busy patterned fabric because the hippo bodies are fairly similar in tone and theyre gonna wash out without a plain ground. Text me if your machine is struggling with the open-mouth teeth section and ill check the underlay settings.