Meet our Hanging Sloth. She’s cute, cuddly and loves to just hang around. This pattern supplies directions for making our Hanging Sloth.

This Hanging Sloth is suitable for intermediate knitters and assumes an understanding of basic stitches and standard knitting terms as well as understanding the concept for short rows. An understanding of how to sew together stuffed animals is not required, but does make things easier. Our Hanging Sloth is knit flat and sewn together using a mattress stitch.

If you’re new to knitting stuffed friends, or are uncomfortable winging it without strict guidelines (that’s OK, we all need good directions sometimes to help us out) you will need approximately 85 m of medium weight brown yarn, 3 m of medium weight light brown yarn yarn and 15 m of medium weight cream yarn. With this yarn, use 4 mm (US size 6) needles. You will also need a small amount of black yarn for the face, stuffing (we use ecofil or wool) and a tapestry needle to sew your sloth together. This will let you create a hanging sloth that’s approximately 26 cm (10 inches) in length.

The beauty of knitting stuffed friends is that this pattern can be knit in any size yarn with accompanying needles. Generally we find using a size or two smaller needles than required by the yarn allows for the tightness needed when you’re stuffing your finished product.

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