Project #8: Blue Octopus

The octopus was a request from Emma, who had been wanting an amigurumi doll and finally chose an octopus from the Lion Brand site in turquoise, her favorite color. I used this free pattern and this yarn in "Swimming Pool" to make the doll... "Swimming Pool" was the closest thing I could find to turquoise in a 100% cotton yarn***, but it is variegated. I wasn't too excited about that initially but I think it turned out cute. I didn't realize then that they do make a solid turquoise yarn... they just didn't carry it at the store I was visiting that day. Pooh!

Oh well, to add a mouth &/or hair bow or NOT to add said accoutrements? I'm still undecided... and what of eye lashes? I'll have to think about this.

Anyways, the body was the easy part. Tentacles just give me handcramps. There are a few things I wish I'd done differently but I'm still okay with it overall. I usually use poly-pellets to stuff the body and fiber-fill for any extremities but because of how the doll is closed in this particular pattern, I shied away from the pellets. I could only envision thousands of tiny beads spilling everywhere and me flinging Emma's poor octopus into a wall... So I stuck with fiber-fill and was a little too generous with it. So... octopus is nice and bouncy. but still cute.

***I prefer 100% cotton for amigurumi but the pattern didn't call for it. This was just a little slice of my psychosis in action.