Tolle -the Octopus

Tolly sitting relaxed

Tolle with a water pot

 Tolle doing his home work

 Tolle having a car ride

 Tolle in school

 Tolle on a train ride

 Tolle preparing rotis

 Tolle riding a bike

 Tolle stuck atthe level crossing

Tolle waiting for the train to pass

This was a bath Mitt pattern and I converted it into a toy.

Materials
Size 8 or 4 mm needles
4 ply yarns of any color
Blunt tapestry needles used for knitting

Body
Cast on 44 stitches
Knit 36 rows st.st
Row 37 : k2tog,K4- repeat to end
Row 38: purl
Row 39: k2tog,k4 reapeat to end
Row 40 - purl
Row 41: k2tog,k3 repeat to end
Row 42: purl
Row 43: k2tog,l2 repeat to end
Row 44: purl
Row 45: k2tog across row
Bind off with purl stitch
Leave a long tail for sweing body

Tentacles [ make 6]
Cast on 70 sts
Row 1 knit
Row 2: k2tog across row
Bind of with a knit st.
Leave a long tail of yarn to sew into body

Octopus: base
using same color cast on 10 sts and work 2 rows st.st
Cont in st.st and inc 1 st at each end of next row and fol 4 alt rows [20 sts]
Work 7 rows st.st beg with p row
Dec1 st at each end of next row and fol 4 alt rows [10 sts]
P 1 row

Cast off

With blunt tapestry needle stitch the seams of the body.
Fill it with polyfrill
While stitching the base to the body ensure to stitch the tentencles
with the base

WOW your Octopus is ready