Octopus — Free Amigurumi Pattern
A free crochet amigurumi octopus pattern with round-by-round instructions, stitch counts and assembly. Worsted weight, 3.5 mm hook, about 9 cm tall.
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Yarn weight
- worsted
- Hook
- 3.5 mm
- Finished size
- 9 cm
An octopus is a round head and eight short tentacles, all worked in the same few rounds. It is a good first project for practising a magic ring eight times over, and it makes a soft baby toy.
Before you start
Work in a continuous spiral without joining rounds, and move a stitch marker up
as you go. Every dec is an invisible decrease.
Numbers in brackets are the stitch count at the end of the round.
Abbreviations: MR magic ring · sc single crochet · inc two sc in one stitch · dec invisible decrease · st stitch.
Gauge is not critical, but the fabric must be dense enough that stuffing does not show through. If it does, drop a hook size.
Head
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
- Round 2: inc in each st around [12]
- Round 3: [sc 1, inc] 6 times [18]
- Round 4: [sc 2, inc] 6 times [24]
- Round 5: [sc 3, inc] 6 times [30]
- Round 6: [sc 4, inc] 6 times [36]
- Rounds 7–13: sc in each st around [36]
- Round 14: [sc 4, dec] 6 times [30]
- Round 15: [sc 3, dec] 6 times [24]
- Round 16: [sc 2, dec] 6 times [18]
- Round 17: [sc 1, dec] 6 times [12]
- Round 18: dec around [6]
Place the safety eyes between rounds 11 and 12, seven stitches apart, low on the head. Stuff firmly before the last three rounds.
Tentacles — make 8
- Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring [6]
- Rounds 2–10: sc in each st around [6]
Stuff only the first few rounds, so each tentacle curls. Leave a long tail for sewing.
Assembly
- Pin the eight tentacles in a ring around the decrease rounds at the base of the head, evenly spaced, then sew each one on.
- Embroider a small smile between the eyes and two pink cheek marks if you like.
- For a baby, embroider the eyes instead of using safety eyes.
Making it a different size
Every stitch count here scales together. To make this 9 cm octopus larger or smaller, scale the magic ring and each round by the same factor — the pattern resizer does the arithmetic and rewrites the increase rounds. To keep the size but use a different yarn, the yarn weight converter shows what changes.