Reversible Crochet Octopus: A Two-Faced Squishy Amigurumi Pattern

💡 Use a 4.0mm (G-6) hook and check your tension often — bulky chenille yarn can stretch stitches wider than expected, so aim for a fabric dense enough to fully hide the fiberfill.

💡 Keep a stitch marker moving up every single round since both bodies are worked in a continuous spiral with no joining — this is the easiest way to avoid miscounted increases in the tentacles.

💡 Work each body half in its own dedicated color from start to finish; there's no color-changing mid-round here, so just focus on consistent tension between your two skeins.

💡 Set aside dental floss specifically for the assembly step — regular thread or yarn can slip on slick chenille fibers, but floss creates a seam strong enough for years of hugging.

💡 Insert your 16mm safety eyes before stuffing is complete so you can adjust placement while you still have access to the inside of the body.

💡 Save the mouth and eyebrow embroidery for the very last step so you can compare both finished faces side-by-side and fine-tune each expression before weaving in your ends.

💡 This pattern makes a squishy, approximately 10 cm plush toy — a genuinely thoughtful handmade gift for kids and adults alike.

💡 This pattern is written in US crochet terminology.

💡 If a decrease is needed, use an invisible decrease — insert your hook through the front loops of the next two stitches, yarn over, pull through both, yarn over, and pull through both loops on the hook — to keep the chenille surface smooth.

💡 Place a stitch marker at the start of Round 10, before the long even section (Rounds 10–18) begins — chenille stitches are hard to see, and getting the right number of even rounds is what gives the octopus its nicely proportioned head before the tentacles start.