Beginner Octopus

VIDEO TUTORIALS

Stitch Glossery:

• sc = Single Crochet
• sc(x) = Consecutive Single Crochets
• inc = Increase Stitches.
• dec = Decrease Stitch.
• ch = Chain
• sl st = Slip Stitch
• flo = Front Loop Only
• blo = Back Loop Only

Materials 

• 4 mm crochet hook (2-3 sizes smaller than yarn suggests) 

• I Love This Cotton Yarn or I Love This Yarn (acrylic) from Hobby Lobby - 30 yards for 1 octopus with corkscrew tentacles 

• 2 bulb Safety Pins

• 2 (7-8 mm) safety eyes

• Large eye yarn needle

• Fiber fill

• Scissors

Pattern - (detailed pattern)

Make a magic ring

R1: Ch 1, 6 sc (6 sts)

R2: inc into each st (12 sts)

R3: [sc, inc] 6 times (18 sts)

R4: [sc2, inc] 6 times (24 sts)

R5: [sc3, inc] 6 times (30 sts)

R6-8: sc into each st (30 sts)

R9: [sc3, dec] 6 times (24 sts)

R10: [sc2, dec] 6 times (18 sts)

R11: [sc5, dec] 2 times, sc4 (16 sts)

R12 (flo)

Corkscrew Tentacle: = sc, chain 12, turn, inc into the second ch from hook. inc9 (20 st), sl st into last chain, sc into next st (make 8)

or

Popcorn Tentacle: = ch2, 5dc into next st (popcorn close remember to yarn over before closing), ch2, sc into next st (make 8)



Add a smile

• Starting 3 rows above the tentacles

Add the eyes

• 1 row above & 1 row to outside of smile

R12 cont. (blo): [sc2, dec] 4 times (12 sts)

Stuff the body

(Count back 12 stitches so that you know which v to work into for R13.)

R13: [sc, dec] 4 times (8 sts)

Cut about an 8 inch tail, fasten off, weave through flo all 8 sts, synch to close.

Weave in tail, hide tail in Amigurumi.

Adding a Keychain is optional.