Octopus Pendant Crochet Pattern

Octopus Pendant Crochet Pattern by Ternura Amigurumi

What Is Being Made

This pattern creates an amigurumi octopus pendant standing approximately 30cm in height. The design combines crocheted spheres with wooden embellishments to form a decorative toy pendant suitable for bags, keychains, or display. The octopus features multiple colored components including a main body and coordinating accent pieces.

Project Type and Craft Technique

This is a crochet amigurumi project, a Japanese technique for creating small stuffed toys and decorative items through spiral crocheting. Amigurumi construction involves working in continuous rounds to build three-dimensional forms that are then stuffed and assembled. The octopus pendant demonstrates fundamental amigurumi shaping through increases and decreases that create spherical and dimensional shapes.

Crochet Stitches Used

The pattern employs essential amigurumi stitches to construct the piece:

• Chain stitch (ch) – used for foundation and structural elements
• Single crochet (sc) – the primary stitch for building dense, tight fabric in amigurumi
• Increase (inc) – creates additional stitches to expand the piece and form rounded shapes
• Decrease (dec) – reduces stitches to taper and close sections, essential for creating spherical forms
• Slipped stitch (s.t/dwarf point) – used for joining rounds and finishing edges

Materials and Tools

The octopus pendant requires specific materials to complete the design:

• Yarn: 100% acrylic wool in multiple colors – white, lilac, green, and black – with a thickness of 2mm
• Crochet hook: 2.5mm size, essential for working with the 2mm yarn weight to achieve proper gauge and tight amigurumi fabric
• Stuffing: Synthetic filling for padding the crocheted forms
• Embellishments: Plastic eyes (size 10), 4 wooden spheres measuring 16mm diameter, and 1 wooden ring measuring 3.5cm in diameter
• Finishing tool: Wool needle for weaving in ends and assembling components

Difficulty Level and Construction Method

Rated as medium difficulty, this pattern is accessible to crocheters with foundational skills. The construction begins with magic ring technique to start spheres in the round, then progresses through systematic increases to expand the shape, maintains stitches across middle rounds, and concludes with decreases to close the form. The pattern demonstrates the spiral crochet method characteristic of amigurumi, where work continues in continuous rounds without joining or turning.

Pattern Structure

The pattern includes detailed abbreviations and instructions for creating multiple components. Spheres are constructed in green and lilac colors, beginning with a magic ring foundation of 6 single crochets, expanding through increases to a maximum of 18 stitches, maintaining that width through several rounds, then decreasing systematically to close the piece. Each component is stuffed before final closure, creating firm, dimensional shapes suitable for assembly into the complete pendant.