Happy Jellyfish
A squishy dome and six long chain tentacles - a first lesson in simple shaping.
Amigurumi · Beginner · 3–4 hours · Bell about 10 cm across (its height depends on your row gauge - measure it); tentacles about 19 cm, estimated from the stated gauge
Yarn and tools
- weight: Aran / Worsted (CYC 4)
- fibre: Cotton or acrylic - smooth yarn keeps the long tentacles from tangling
- amount: 45 g Lilac, 15 g Candy Pink, scraps of Blush and Plum
- examples: Drops Paris, Paintbox Cotton Aran, Hobbii Cotton 8/8
- hook: 3.5 mm
- gauge: 36-st round = about 10 cm across; 16 sc = about 10 cm (estimate)
Notions
- Fibrefill 25 g
- 2 x 8 mm safety eyes (or embroider the eyes)
- Stitch marker
- Tapestry needle
- Dark yarn for the mouth
Stitches used
- Magic Ring (MR)
- Single Crochet (sc)
- Increase (inc)
- Invisible Decrease (inv dec)
- Chain (ch)
- Whip Stitch & Mattress Seam (seam)
- Safety Eyes & Embroidered Eyes (eyes)
Notes
- The bell is worked in a continuous spiral. Mark the first stitch of each round and move the marker up as you go.
- The six tentacles are plain chain strips worked separately and sewn to the closing round, so you can make them any length you like. Each extra stitch adds about 0.6 cm at this gauge.
- Safety eyes can be a choking hazard for children under 3. Embroider the eyes instead for any toy a small child will handle; embroidered eyes do not by themselves make a toy safe.
Pattern
Bell - Lilac
Start at the top of the dome. Rounds 1-6 form a flat disc; round n has 6n stitches.
- MR, 6 sc into the ring. (6 sts)
- Inc x6 (12 sts)
- [Sc 1, inc] x6 (18 sts)
- [Sc 2, inc] x6 (24 sts)
- [Sc 3, inc] x6 (30 sts)
- [Sc 4, inc] x6 (36 sts)
- Sc around. (36 sts)
- Sc around. (36 sts)
- Sc around. (36 sts)
- Sc around. (36 sts)
- Sc around. (36 sts)
- Sc around. Place the safety eyes now between this round and the next, 12 sts apart, and embroider a small smile 2 rounds below them. (36 sts)
- Sc around. (36 sts)
- [Sc 4, dec] x6 (30 sts)
- [Sc 3, dec] x6 (24 sts)
- [Sc 2, dec] x6. Stuff the bell firmly before the next round. (18 sts)
- [Sc 1, dec] x6 (12 sts)
- Sl st in the next st and fasten off, leaving a 40 cm tail. The 12 open stitches stay open for the tentacles; do not close the hole. (12 sts)
Tentacles (make 6) - Candy Pink
- Ch 31. (31 ch sts)
- Sc in the 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across. Fasten off, leaving a 25 cm tail for sewing. The strip is about 19 cm long and will curl on its own. (30 sc sts)
Assembly
- Thread the long tail from the bell through the front loops of the last round to gather it into a firm 12-stitch ring, but do not pull it closed. (— sts)
- Sew each tentacle by its start tail to every second stitch of the 12-stitch ring (6 tentacles in total), stitching each one twice. (— sts)
- Sew three or four small spots on the bell with Candy Pink, and add Blush blush circles under the eyes if you like. (— sts)