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The Rexpanse 🪐Introducing the #crochet Kraken who oversees our home #MakerSpace. 480 individually crocheted suckers😵💫
#craft #cephalopods #MarineArt #SciArt #octopus
#craft #cephalopods #MarineArt #SciArt #octopus
kiki@Rexpanse wow, that looks magnificent! That work truly paid off.
@Kiki thanks, he's an excellent guardian
Marnee
Ben Zanin@gnomon @SarahMackAttack I crochet other cephs as well, squid, cuttlefish, even an ammonite. None as big as the Kraken though, so far
Lesley S@Rexpanse Oh my! he’s beautiful! (I once crocheted a considerably smaller octopus and the individual suckers were the stuff of nightmares.)
@scottylikescake I kept a countdown of the 480 suckers. Was the only way for me to mentally get through them all
Kara Shallenberg@Rexpanse good morning to our overlord, the Crochet Kraken
Elizabeth@Rexpanse I'mma quit complaining about my WIP and threaten my hands with sucker duty😂
Simply amazing!
Simply amazing!
@NanaFish that's a serious threat😆🐙🦑
Thatch
Lisa-Marie 🧶@Rexpanse very cool!
J.M. Helfrich@Rexpanse Oh my god, I love this! 😍
Bradley 🤙 
@Rexpanse @goaldeebug - crochet goals? 🤔
GoaldeeBug@4fthawaiian @Rexpanse now THATS dedication to your art. Amazing.
DefilerWyrm 
@Rexpanse WOAH! That looks like a lot of exacting work, but also worth the effort!
Screen Sanctum 
@Rexpanse that’s pretty dope
Adri Gomes@Rexpanse beautiful
Zi0nCat@Rexpanse that is amazing!!
holli@Rexpanse did you make it? That is amazing!
@Rexpanse I looooove it. I’m obsessed with octopuses and jellyfish. 🐙
@holli There's a big wobbly jellyfish I crocheted as a cat toy around as well.
@holli I used this mix and match pattern https://craftyintentions.com/jellyfish
Jellyfish — Crafty Intentions
Jellyfish crochet pattern is now available. You can find the pattern here on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jellyfish-52 Or here on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/773729184/jellyfish-crochet-amigurumi-pattern?ref=shop_home_active_1 And don't forget!!! Use Coupon Code
@Rexpanse I sadly don’t know how to crochet, but there is so much crochet art that I love. Do you sell your art?
@holli I learned to crochet to make the octopus. Took me a couple of years to be confident my skills were up to it. I don't sell my crochet, but there are people on Etsy who sell finished octopodes from the same pattern
SithFisto@Rexpanse That is one of the coolest thing ever! 😯
@SithFisto Highly satisfying to cuddle as well
James_Pond@Rexpanse rerelease the Kraken
Vicki Ziegler@Rexpanse This crocheter is awestruck. My greatest crocheting accomplishment, beyond countless afghans and the like, was a wreath of brussel sprouts.
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘The best wreath of crocheted brussels sprouts I have ever seen!
@anne_twain Thank you for your very kind words. Maybe I will come out of brussel sprout crocheting retirement to do it again. 😉 [can't find a brussel sprout emoji!]
dearydarlingoh my goodness! i don't know what to spaz over first, that absolutely bonkers, marvelous, spectacular, i can't even imagine what a labor of love it was to bring into the universe Kraken!!! (but so glad you did)
Edit: 480!!! i am in awe hehe. I can only fantasize about what that final one completed must have felt like. My completion rate on things is dismal lol so i have to live vicariously 😂
OR!
A brussel sprout wreath?! A brussel sprout wreath! Yes. yes yes yes 🥰 😍
@dearydarling @anne_twain I think the brussel sprouts pale in comparison to the Kraken, but I am delighted that both have left you in such astonishment! 🥰 💚
This is the redemption arc brussel sprouts were in need of. They're lovely and they get so much undue hate. They deserve a chance to showcase their charms and be seen as the thing of beauty that they are :)
@dearydarling @anne_twain Oh, you have expressed this beautifully!
Jcmacomber@Rexpanse
Very cool
Very cool
Spokes(wo)man@Rexpanse fabulous! Has he/she/they a name ?
@Spokeswoman Pattern name is Apollo, we call them by their more respectful title, Kraken😏
GrayStripe@Rexpanse This is an amazing piece of art!
Boydus@Rexpanse just wow!
Bob@Rexpanse Very impressive!
Enfys Book (they/them)@Rexpanse that is so badass! Love it, and as a crocheter I appreciate the sheer number of hours it must've taken to make it.
@EnfysBook Definitely one of those "best not to think about it" things when it comes to hours spent 
Jennifer Foehner Wells@Rexpanse Impressive! Did you follow a particular pattern?
@Jenthulhu Projectarian's Apollo the Octopus. Available on their own website, Ravelry and Etsy.
@Rexpanse Perfect! Thanks! I'll add it to my ravelry list.
Spiggi🎀@Rexpanse lovely! The eyes are also nicely detailed 🐾🖖🏻
@Spiggitzfan It's a fantastic pattern
Juliailse
Phil Tanner@Rexpanse and an amazing maker space it is too...
@phil_tanner Better use of the space than the halfway it used to be
Linda van der Pal@Rexpanse Wow, what a piece of art!
Katie