I posted a pick a few weeks ago of some amigurumi octopi I made. The smallest are from a club crochet pattern, but the larger ones I designed myself from that pattern. These are those patterns! My description for how to do the mouth might be a little hard to understand, so I recommend looking at the original pattern's video if you get lost.
Row 3: [sc, inc] around (18)
Row 4: [sc 2, inc] around (24)
Row 9: [sc 4, invdec] around (20)
Row 10: sc 9, switch to eye color: mini bobble, switch to main color: sc 2, do mouth by slst into work in a circle (everytime I've made this I've done a slightly different circle, aim for 7-8 slsts) then sc into those slsts, back to the body stitches: sc 2, switch to eye color: mini bobble, sc 5 (20)
Row 12: in the front loop only: [slst,{ch,dc 3,slst},slst,{ch,dc 3},slst] around (20)
note: the different placements of the slip stitches is intentional, and makes it possible to get 8 legs (tentacles in the original pattern though that's technically incorrect terminology) out of 20 stitches, alternatively you could decrease to 16 st in the previous row and do the tentacles as in the original pattern, though the octopus may look a little too pulled in
Row 13: in the back loop from the previous round: [sc 2, dec] around (15)
Row 14: [sc, dec] around (10)
cut yarn, use yarn needle to run tail through stitches of final row, pull closed and hide tail
Row 3: [sc, inc] around (18)
Row 4: [sc 2, inc] around (24)
Row 5: [sc 3, inc] around (30)
Rows 6-10: sc around (30)
Row 11: [sc 13, invdec] around (28)
Row 12: [sc 5, invdec] around (24)
Row 13: sc 15, switch to eye color: bobble, switch to main color: sc 2, do mouth by slst into work in a circle (everytime I've made this I've done a slightly different circle, aim for 7-9 slsts) then sc into those slsts, back to the body stitches: sc 2, switch to eye color: bobble, sc 3 (24)
Row 15: in the front loop only: [slst,{dc 2, tc},{tc,dc 2}] around (24)
Row 16: in the back loop from the previous round: [sc 2, dec] around (18)
Row 17: [sc, dec] around (12)
cut yarn, use yarn needle to run tail through stitches of final row, pull closed and hide tail
Row 3: [sc, inc] around (18)
Row 4: [sc 2, inc] around (24)
Row 5: [sc 3, inc] around (30)
Row 6: [sc 4, inc] around (36)
Rows 7-11: sc around (36)
Row 12: [sc 16, invdec] around (34)
Row 13: [sc 15, invdec] around (32)
Row 14: sc 20, switch to eye color: bobble, switch to main color: sc 4, switch to eye color: bobble, sc 6 (32)
Row 15: sc 23, do mouth by slst into work in a circle (everytime I've made this I've done a slightly different circle, aim for 8-10 slsts) then sc into those slsts, back to body stitches: sc 9 (32)
Row 17: in the front loop only: [slst,{dc 2, tc},{tc,dc 2},slst] around (32)
Row 18: in the back loop from the previous round: [sc 2, dec] around (24)
Row 19: [sc 2, dec] around (18)
Row 20: [sc, dec] around (12)
cut yarn, use yarn needle to run tail through stitches of final row, pull closed and hide tail
Row 3: [sc, inc] around (18)
Row 4: [sc 2, inc] around (24)
Row 5: [sc 3, inc] around (30)
Row 6: [sc 4, inc] around (36)
Row 7: [sc 5, inc] around (42)
Rows 8-12: sc around (42)
Row 13: [sc 19, invdec] around (40)
Row 14: [sc 8, invdec] around (36)
Row 15: [sc 7, invdec] around (32)
Row 16: sc 20, switch to eye color: bobble, switch to main color: sc 4, switch to eye color: bobble, sc 6 (32)
Row 17: sc 23, do mouth by slst into work in a circle (everytime I've made this I've done a slightly different circle, aim for 8-10 slsts) then sc into those slsts, back to body stitches: sc 9 (32)
Row 19: in the front loop only: [slst,{dc 2, tc},{tc,dc 2},slst] around (32)
Row 20: in the back loop from the previous round: [sc 2, dec] around (24)
Row 21: [sc 2, dec] around (18)
Row 22: [sc, dec] around (12)
cut yarn, use yarn needle to run tail through stitches of final row, pull closed and hide tail
And there's all the variations I've made! Once you've got a feel for the patterns, feel free to play around with the placement and size of the eyes and mouth till you find your favorite version
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