Browsing Ravelry remains dangerous. I was looking for a pattern for a black sheep and found several but then I was blown over by a little pattern for a ‘pentapus‘ by Twice Sheared Sheep (hence why it showed up in my Sheep search). A pentapus is apparently an octopus with five arms. It was so cute that I had to start it right after finding it. It also helped that the instructions claimed that he could be finished in an hour (I’m apparently a slow knitter, because it took me a little longer..).
I did make some changes. The yarn was held double throughout. To create the eight legs, I did not increase to 25 but to 24 stitches, (k1,make bobble, k1) repeat 8 times and decreased from 24 to 20 stitches, in the respective rows. Otherwise I followed all the instructions.
The eyes are made by making a knot in some really thick yarn, then knotting it together in the octopus.
I think he’s really cute.
