Octopus, Octopus, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp! The Rebecca Page FREE Octopus Sewing Pattern

Octopus, Octopus Squiggling in the Water, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!

Bring your sea squabbling adventures to life with Rebecca Page's adorable and FREE Octopus Sewing Pattern!

She includes several options:
- Embroidered legs
- Add weighted beads to the legs to make her legs poseable
- Sew, Iron, or paint on her eyes and mouth
- Octopus or Spider (or something else?) 

I used some of my felt stash for a nice purple and yellow blend of bright colours. 

Everything is hand sewn, which I find therapeutic and quite enjoy. 

The most tedious part is cutting out the fabric, and then it's clear sailing from that point onwards!

Look how cute her eyes are!  I opted to be lazy and used my glue gun to glue on the felt circles, but you can use iron on fabric, embroider them, use buttons or Googly Eyes, sew the felt on - whichever method you prefer!

The same goes with her mouth, which I opted to embroider on, topping off with some adorable cheek circles. 

I embroidered her legs as per the instructions, and once I did one leg, I just flew through my straight stitches!  It makes a neat effect.  

I think buttons underneath would make them look like suckers and more authentic. Okay, as authentic as a felt octopus is going to be...

Ahol Hoy!  She's ready for adventures in the great sea!

I think she'll just love her enemies until they give in, and bring goodness to all with that big smile!  Kindness can certainly scare the evil away!

Overall, you can't go wrong with this FREE Pattern - get her here now!

Unicorns, Unicorns, EVERYWHERE! Rebecca Page Patterns Unicorn Doll Sewing Pattern

Always be yourself, unless you can be a Unicorn.  

Then always be a Unicorn. 

Rebecca Page Patterns has a lovely new handsewn Unicorn Doll Pattern.  

The pattern includes:
- A whimsical and magical unicorn pattern

- No machine required - can be stitched completely by hand (hello, camping project!) 

- Beautiful mane (with as few or many hair wisps as you'd like!)

- Button or doll joints for the legs

I am a bit of a Unicorn fan, so jumped at the chance to create my very own Unicorn!  

Hand Cutting out all of the pieces deems a netflix episode (or  two) - and I know a few testers used their Cricut machines to cut out their pieces even quicker (don't ask me how  - I don't own such Wizardry!). 

Then the stitching begins. 

The tail is first - and can be plain, fully stuffed, or partially stuffed and embroidered.  I opted to match my felt fabric colours with some embroidery thread.  

Make sure to stuff the tail VERY lightly in order for this to work.  

The horn is super cute - and you can be as creative or basic as you like.  I glued some pink string beads onto it in a circular motion for a blast of colour. 

And look at those eyes!  I used iron on fabric for the eye, and embroidery thread for the lashes.

And THAT MANE.

It's pretty gorgeous! I think I used about 40 pieces of hair wisp to create this, and I love the way it looks. 

I did just sew the legs on - no buttons, no doll joints...just plain. Sure they don't move, but he's okay not moving. 

Why move when people will move you instead? 

Sparkle Fancy Feet is smart. 

Play with Fairies. 

Ride a Unicorn.

Swim with Mermaids. 

Chase Rainbows. 

Give your try at creating this gorgeous Unicorn toy - and give old-fashioned hand sewing a go. 

You and any kiddos you can safely round up will enjoy this as a great summer project!



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