Sailor Octopuses

Author: Dace Rasa
Difficulty Level: medium

Amigurumi sailor octopuses crochet

Free Sailor Octopuses crochet tutorial by Dace Rasa @three_sugarpeas.

With this pattern, you can crochet sailor octopuses. For this amigurumi project, any cotton blend yarn will work well: Alize Cotton Gold, YarnArt Jeans, Gazzal Baby Cotton, and others. The tutorial includes two different sailor hat patterns.

The finished toy size is about 7-8 cm.

Materials and Tools

  • Alize Cotton Gold yarn: lavender, blue, white, red
  • 2 mm crochet hook
  • 6 mm safety eyes
  • Toy stuffing
  • Needle for sewing parts
  • Scissors

Abbreviations

  • MR - magic ring
  • ch - chain stitch
  • sl st - slip stitch
  • sc - single crochet
  • dc - double crochet
  • tr - treble crochet
  • hdc - half double crochet
  • inc - increase
  • dec - decrease
  • BLO - back loop only
  • FLO - front loop only
  • (...) x n - repeat n times

Sailor Octopuses Amigurumi Crochet Pattern

Amigurumi sailor octopus crochet

Head-Body

Start crocheting the head with lavender yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR (6)
2. inc x 6 (12)
3. (sc, inc) x 6 (18)
4. (2 sc, inc) x 6 (24)
5. (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
6. (4 sc, inc) x 6 (36)
7. (5 sc, inc) x 6 (42)
8. (6 sc, inc) x 6 (48)
9. (7 sc, inc) x 6 (54)
10-16. (7 rounds) 54 sc (54)

Insert the eyes between rounds 9 and 13. The distance between them is 9 stitches.

17. (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
18. (2 sc, dec) x 12 (36)
Switch to blue yarn
19. 36 sc (36)
20. (sc, inc) x 18 (54)

Switch to white yarn and continue crocheting, alternating white and blue.

21-24. (4 rounds) 54 sc (54)
Switch to lavender yarn
25. BLO (7 sc, dec) x 6 (48)
26. (4 sc, dec) x 8 (40)
27. (3 sc, dec) x 8 (32)
28. (2 sc, dec) x 8 (24)
29. (sc, dec) x 8 (16)
30. dec x 8 (8)

Do not stuff the bottom too tightly so it stays flat. Fasten off and hide the yarn tail inside the body.

Tentacles

Turn the body upside down. Attach lavender yarn to the remaining loops and start crocheting the tentacles:

1. 2 sc in each FLO (96)
2. (sl st, sl st, sc, hdc, dc, tr (11 ch, start in the second chain from the hook, 10 sl st), tr, dc, hdc, sc, sl st, sl st) x 8, sl st in the first stitch

Fasten off the ends and hide them inside the body.

Amigurumi sailor octopuses crochet. Tentacles

Hat with Pom-Pom

Start the hat from the pom-pom with red yarn:

1. 6 sc in MR (6)
2. inc x 6 (12)
3. (sc, dec) x 4 (8)
Switch to white yarn
4. BLO sl st to the end of the round (8)
5. BLO inc x 8 (16)
6. (sc, inc) x 8 (24)
7. (3 sc, inc) x 6 (30)
8. (dec, 3 sc) x 6 (24)
Switch to blue yarn
9. BLO sl st to the end of the round (24)
10. BLO sl st to the end of the round (24), sl st in the first stitch

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing.

Sailor Hat

Start from the top of the hat with white yarn:

1. 8 sc in MR (8)
2. inc x 8 (16)
3. (sc, inc) x 8 (24)
4-6. (3 rounds) 24 sc (24)

sl st in the first stitch, ch, turn.
Move the marker here and crochet from the second stitch from the hook:

7. BLO (5 sc, inc) x 4 (28)
Then crochet as usual
8. 28 sc (28)
Switch to blue yarn
9. BLO sl st to the end of the round (28), sl st in the first stitch

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing.

Ribbon for the Hat

Start with the first ribbon: chain 14. Hold the hat upside down, attach the first ribbon, and continue crocheting the line through FLO.

sl st in each FLO (24), hdc in the first stitch, then continue with the second ribbon: chain 12.

Fasten off and cut the yarn tail.

Finishing

Amigurumi sailor octopuses crochet

  • Embroider the mouth, cheeks, and eyes.
  • Sew the hat to the head.
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