Create your own crochet baby octopus!
List of Materials
Abbreviation
- Crochet hook size 2.2mm
- 5-ply, DK Light Weight (Category 3)
- Stitch Marker
- Tapestry needle
- Scissors
- Poly fiber
- Safety Eyes 8mm
- chain ((ch)
- single crochet (sc)
- half double crochet (hdc)
- double crochet (dc)
- increase (inc)
- decrease (dec) *
- front loop only (FLO)
- times (x)
*to decrease, take front loop of next two stitches, and pull through all loops as normal single crochet
Size of finished product
Height 4cm, width 5cm
Let’s Start!
- Magic Ring, sc 8 (8)
- Inc x 8 (16)
- (sc,inc) x 8 (24)
- sc around (24)
- sc around (24)
- sc around (24))
- sc around (24)
- (dc,dec) x 8 (16)
- Put safety eyes into 5th row and 5 to 6 stitches apart
- dec x 8 (8)
- Tentacle part – each 8 sc please repeat :
- ch7, sl st into 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 3 ch, hdc into next ch, dc into next ch, sl st to next sc FLO
- Stuff doll with polyfibres
- dec x 4 (4), fasten off, and sew in all ends
Notes & Tips
This pattern can be used with any type of yarn, and crochet hook, so it is up to you what you have on hand, I just list down what I have used in this pattern as reference. Thank you for reading this far and hope you enjoy your little octpus 🙂
This tutorial for baby octopus video https://youtu.be/ZusjypdMG7A
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