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Very cute! Where did you get the pattern???

 

I didn't have a pattern, it's all improvised. But I wrote down a 'manual' for someone else, I can let you have it if you're interested. :)

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I've been meaning to make one. :D

 

It doesn't really serve a purpose, and I don't know many kids, so it's just a cuddly fish for me.

 

 

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Your "cuddlefish" is absolutely adorable!

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Alright, as I said, I didn't have apattern, and I wrote this down afterwards, so it's more a manual than a pattern, really. But it isn't too complicated, and with the pic to look at too, I think it should be possible to do: :)

 

Here you go:

 

 

Cuddlefish:

 

I used a 4.5 mm hook and fun fur, and some thick blue yarn that was a leftover without a label, but probably some kind of wool-acrylic blend.

 

 

 

It’s made starting at the mouth. I chained maybe 8? (It could be less) stitches of the wool. (I can’t count the stitches through the fun fur, it’s hopeless. Lol!)

 

 

 

1: sc 16 in the ring. Leave a long end hanging for 'puffing up' the lips later.

 

 

2: Switch to fur yarn. Sc 1 in each stitch, but since the fish is not round as a ball but flattens at the sides, you have to add two stitches at the top of the ring, and two at the bottom on every round. I did it by sc’ing three stitches in one.

 

 

 

3: Because of the fur yarn, there’s no need to do nice invisible row changes, so I didn’t join with a ch, I just started crocheting in rounds. Each row adding two stitches at the top and the bottom, until it’s the size you want.

 

Then just continue without adding for maybe 10-15 rows (or as long as you want the middle part to be) after which you start decreasing. It’s the same as the front, but instead of adding two, you just crochet three stitches together. I do it like this: insert hook, yo, pull through, insert hook in next, yo, pt, insert hook in next, yo, then pull through all the loops on the hook.

 

 

 

At some point before the hole gets too small, you’ll have to start stuffing the fish. I used old clothes bits.

 

 

 

When you’ve decreased until you have some 10 stitches left, you just go a round of decreases as described above. When the fish has the shape and amount of stuffing you want it to, close off and weave in the end.

 

 

 

I made the lips puffier by sewing with the thick yarn around the ring a couple of times. At the end I drew the string inside the ring and pulled at it until they stuck out as much as I could make them.

 

 

 

The fins were improvised, something like this:

 

Tail:

 

Ch 8

 

1: sc 8

 

2: sc 3, sc 2 stitches in next, sc 3, sc 2 in next.

 

3: Continue to increase with 2 sc’s on each row until the middle, then start decreasing again.

 

You’ll need two parts, I stitched them together before sewing them on to the fish.

 

 

 

Top fin:

 

Ch 16

 

1: Sc 16

 

2: Decrease at the middle of the ring with one stitch on each row. When it’s about 8 rows high, flip inside out and close the hole with slip stitches.

 

Flip outside out again, and sew onto fish

 

 

 

Small fins on lower side:

 

Ch 10

 

1: sc 10

 

2: decrease one stitch on opposite sides of the fin (two in all)

 

 

 

When you’re down to 6 stitches left, close off and sew on to fish.

 

The eyes were just two crocheted white circles, with two smaller dark blue circles sewed on to them.

 

I know it’s a lot of explaining, but it sounds much worse than it really is. Good luck!

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Thanks. :D

 

I'd love to see your fishie when you're done!

 

Btw, I'm moving and won't be around much the following days, but if there's any problems with the manual, just ask and I'll try to get back to you anyway. :)

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