Keep your knitting needles handy for the latest book from talented toy designer Sarah Keen, and get ready to create more delightful, knitted animals to cherish. Perfect as a special gift for a child, an animal lover or simply to add to your own personal collection, these super safari friends are bursting with character. The projects range from a roaring lion and a mighty elephant to a hungry hippo, a charging rhinoceros and a stylish zebra, with plenty of other cute creatures to choose from, too. All the animals have easy-to-follow patterns, and this book also features detailed techniques, abbreviations and knitting conversions – allowing you to create with confidence. 

Projects include lion, tiger, elephant, rhino, zebra, gorilla, anteater, vulture, hippo, warthog, crocodile.

The latest adorable collection of knitted toys from Sarah Keen takes you on a magical trip through jungles and deserts where you can find all your favourite safari friends. As well as likely characters such as hippos, lions, elephants and monkeys, you can also find patterns to craft anteaters, weaver birds, sloths, meerkats and more. Each animal has a lovely expressive, embroidered face and wears a cute pinafore dress, dungarees or shorts with braces.

Although these toys are accessible to knitters at any level – and there is a comprehensive techniques section at the back for anything you’re not sure about – there is plenty of knitterly interest to be found. Learn how to make the lion’s bushy, loopy mane; the antelope’s twisty horns and the weaver bird’s stripy wings.

Sarah Keen is a freelance pattern designer and finds calculating rows and stitches challenging but fascinating. She is experienced in designing knitted toys for children and also enjoys writing patterns for charity. She has written numerous bestselling books for GMC Publications, including Knitted Farm Animals, Knitted Menagerie, Knitted Noah’s Ark, Knitted Wild Animals, Knitted Farm Animals, Knitted Farmyard, Knitted Safari, Knitted Fairy Tales, Knitted Nursery Rhymes, Knitted Cars and Trucks, Knitted Space, Topsy-Turvy Knitted Dolls, 50 Knitted Dolls and 100 Little Knitted Projects. Sarah lives in Aberystwyth, Wales.