Yesterday our friends Abby and Aaron, who unfortunately moved away a year and a half ago, were in town. They stopped by the house to visit and meet the baby. Abby had knitted this stupendously cute hippo as a gift for the Grifflet. I can’t wait til he’s a little bit more into toys so he can start loving on it.

The hippo looked vaguely familiar when I saw it, and Abby pointed out that the pattern is from this book, which I had laying out on the coffee table. Duh.

I’ve been (very slowly) working on a different pattern from this book, a knitted snake in self-striping sock yarn. I picked the simplest possible pattern to work on, but it’s been slow going because I so rarely have both hands free to do anything these days. One-handed knitting is not really a possibility, unfortunately!