This octopus was made from the same Adventures in Toymaking book as the elephant. The most fun part of making it was picking out the fabric. The fleece on the top part has little fishes swimming on it and the cotton on the bottom has spirals like suckers.

The worst part of making it was turning and stuffing all those tentacles. The pattern was supposed to be about 25% bigger. It’s pretty big anyway, as you can see, but maybe if it had been a little bigger those tentacles would have been easier to manage.