Crochet a Zoo: Fun Toys for Baby and You

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Crochet a Zoo by Megan Kreiner brings the magic of the animal kingdom to life with charming and easy-to-follow patterns. This book offers a variety of adorable zoo animals, including elephants, lions, and pandas. Each pattern is carefully crafted to create lovable amigurumi toys that can be used as gifts or cherished playtime friends.

Title: Crochet a Zoo
Author: Megan Kreiner
Publisher: Martingale, 1994
Photographer: Brent Kane
Pages: 83
ISBN: 978-1-60468-273-1
Available from Amazon.

Fantastic Zoo Animals to Crochet

Crochet a Zoo by Megan Kreiner features more than 16 playful zoo animal crochet patterns. The book provides step-by-step instructions for making these amigurumi toys. Patterns are included for elephants, lions, pandas, and more. Each pattern is designed to be approachable for beginners, with helpful tips on the best materials to use and how to assemble the toys. These cute little animals make great gifts, decorations, and playtime companions.

Crochet a Zoo includes 83 pages of fun to make toys. Patterns have been included for a variety of zoo animals.

Zoo Animal Crochet Patterns

• penguins
• harp seals
• walrus
• polar bear and grizzly bear
• panda
• lion and tiger
• rhinoceros
• elephants
• hippopotamus
• zebra
• giraffe
• primates
• giant red kangaroo and joey
• zookeepers
• zoo food

Also included are sections about types of stuffing, noisemakers, felt and thread, safety eyes, needles, hooks, stitch markers, handy tools and slicker brushes.

The stitches you will need to use to Crochet Your Zoo Animal are demonstrated in a Crochet Stitch overview section with handy diagrams and written instructions. There is also a section to explain the embroidery stitches used to embellish your projects.

I found some excellent tips included in the Finishing Instructions – like how to close holes in your projects, how to hide yarn ends, how to cut out your felt pieces, how to line up facial features and how to attach body parts.

The written instructions in this book are fantastic and include stitch counts at the end of each row.

I plan to make many of these little animals for my children. Darla loves the Primates and Drew loves the Elephants 😉 I love the Penguins!!

Crochet a Zoo Pattern Images

Crochet a Zoo is available to purchase on Amazon.

Martingale also has this cute little video to show you some of the animals included in Crochet a Zoo.

Crochet a Zoo Video

A special thanks to Martingale for providing me with a review copy of this book! All images used with permission from Martingale and their Photographer Brent Kane. For more information about Martingale – visit their Website, Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter !

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Happy crocheting!

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