Octopus my way...

Hey everyone, 

Recently, I've made a new plushie. I got the idea to make this type of plushie after seeing it a lot lately on Pinterest and Esty. It's these adorable octopus that are round and oh so cute that sometimes have mustaches or glasses. I really wanted one so decided to make one for myself.

Of course after the egg/turnip plushie fail, I wasn't so confident that it would turn out so well. Especially since it was again a plushie with more of a 3 dimensional form that I wasn't used to. But, I really wanted an octopus plushie of my own so I went for it.

Before I started, I went around looking for tutorials and I had found this particular one on 

google images. Even though it was in japanese I was able to follow the instruction based on the pictures which was pretty neat. 

This is the pic:

Just the pic alone made me more excited to try because it looked so darn cute! 

So, after looking over the tutorial I saw that it was going to turn out tiny because it was meant to be a cellphone strap plushie. 

I didn't want it to be so small so I decided to make it bigger.

I also wanted to make mine a girl so I opted out the mustache.

At first, following the tutorial was easy and I was actually getting the shape to form better than when I made the egg/turnip plushie. 

That was a plus right there.

The only problem I had was that my shape was slightly cube like round, but I didn't mind it was still better than the previous fail attempt. haha

The hardest part I have to say was attaching the 8 legs onto the plushie. That was really difficult as I was not used to attaching 

pieces after the body sewing was finished.

Overall, I think it came out okay. Doesn't look anything like the adorable mustache plushie in the tutorial, but at least it's unique and cute.

Here's how it turned out:

Thank you for reading my post. I hope you get inspired to make something out of your comfort zone, it might turn out better than you expect.

Thanks again and God bless!