A while ago, my old­est daugh­ter requested me to find a pat­tern for an amigu­rumi octo­pus. But no mat­ter where I looked for it, there just didn’t seem to be a pat­tern that could please us both. Because of the rainy days lately, peo­ple are more or less stuck in their own homes, star­ing through the win­dow and so I started to think : ‘If we can’t find a pat­tern, well, then we should just make one up ourselves…’

When you start to look for a pat­tern on the web, typ­ing in words like squid or octo­pus or even cephalo­pod, will get you a truck­load of pat­terns for amigu­ru­mi­fig­ures, but since I’m not easy to please (and nei­ther is my daugh­ter), we found that one pat­tern wasn’t cud­dly enough, the other was dis­pro­por­tional and some oth­ers were just plain fright­ning. As always, I wanted to bring you a pat­tern that was sim­ple to make, quite quick to do and above all, looked really really cute.



After hav­ing drawn mul­ti­ple sketches and with some eras­ing and redraw­ing because of all the remarks of my old­est, bit by bit a lit­tle octo came to life. Com­pletely in a kawaii-​like style, thanks to the lit­tle beady eyes and happy smile.

So go and get your best cro­chethook, gather your bags filled with yarn from the attic and go com­pletely wild with a whole fam­ily of octo­pussies. Give them a flower or a crown to wear and make them even more orig­i­nal. And you’ve made an Octo, be sure to send us a pic or post one on face­book, we’ll make sure it gets a nice spot in the showcase.

Materials used :

as always my trusty 3mm-crochet hook
yarn : annell rapido
a small string of black sewing thread for the mouth, but you could use yarn aswell (the mouth will be a little thicker)
and of course stuffing and 10.5mm safety eyes

It took me about one hour and a half to complete Octo.

you can find the free pattern on my blog : http://www.beestenbende.be/index.php/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=39:amigurumi-octo-pussy-2&catid=10:patronen&Itemid=197

If you don't really know what to do with those yarn leftovers, here's is a cute pattern, that does not take more than ten minutes to make and looks ok with whatever size hook you crochet it with...

After making a whole lot of patterns, I realized I was stuck with all these little bits of yarn, that were just too little to start a new project with, and too much to just discard of it, so I kept it tagging along in a bag, not knowing what to do. Until I saw the animated series Futurama and I was inspired by the brainslugs (If you know the series, you'll be familiar with this creature). So I tried to write down a pattern that is real easy and quick to make.

The materials I used (but you could use about any size) were these :

crochet hook : 3mm
yarn : most of it was Scheepjes-Roma, Annell Rapido or Katja Promo Fin which fitted perfectly with the 3mm-hook
safety eyes : you can choose between sizes, I used 8mm and 10.5mm safety eyes from Lisa & Ed's
Time to make a Slimey : 10 minutes for the small ones, and about 12 minutes for the larger ones.
If you leave the belly from mom's pattern, Slimey will fit perfectly in it

the free pattern can be found on my blog here : http://www.beestenbende.be/index.php/en/patterns/48-amigurumi-slimey-and-his-mom

this is one my newest patterns. For easy reference I just called him Tony Tiger.
If you want to make one yourself, you can find the pattern on my blog : http://beestenbende.be/index.php/en/?option=com_content&view=article&id=52:amigurumi-tony-tiger&catid=10:patronen&Itemid=221
Right now I'm trying to make a female version....



Info :

The safety eyes were bought at Lisa and Ed's
The yarn used : Annell Rapido with a 3mm crochet hook.
this pattern will take an experienced crocheteer 2/3 hours to complete.

Sewing the nose : (this is not included in the pattern)
Just pull a thread from the middle of the nose/mouth-piece to the stitches a little above and come out throught the middle again (repeat several times to achief a cute pink nose)