The Octopus legs are generally made (in the tutorials i have seen) by making a cane for the legs then pulling it down into 8 pieces that are tapered down like you would expect the legs to be, they are attached to the body straight, first make a + with the first 4, then the last 4 in between those, the shaping of the legs is then done after all 8 are attached and melted in by selective heating and manipulation. The tutorials I saw were for boro but I imagine they could be adapted for soft glass.
There is a tutorial in Glassline issue: August/September, 2010 - Vol. 24, No. 2. for an octopus.
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