Hello everyone. It's time for the big
pattern update for going into I think
it's the fourth year now. This is in my
top three of my bestselling of all
patterns. Over a thousand of you have
made this. You love it. And while the
majority of you have made it without
issue, there's been a few comments or
concerns. You email me about these
things. Of course, I'm always happy to
help. and your issues that were kind of
giving you a little challenge. I have
addressed them in the pattern update.
So, the pattern's been rewritten just a
bit to make issue one, how the hook is,
what your options are. Starting the
patterns gives you a little more
flexibility. Then, how the body was
filmed, I've reworked that. And then
I've also split the tutorial into
multiple sections so that as you work
each section, you can stop and then when
you get to the next section that needs
instruction, you go to the next video.
So there's four tutorials total for the
pattern. Then we have the decrease
section. You wanted the tail to be a
little easier, so I've changed the tail
instructions in the pattern, so it
should be a breeze for you now. And then
the final thing was the eye, which was a
little fiddly. Now, I didn't mind. I
make a lot of these, but we're all
different. And I want to give you plenty
of options to appeal to a broader base
of makers and you've sent me your
adorable finished fish or you've put
them in reviews. You know, you all email
me all the time and I love to hear from
you. So, your eyes, you've had like here
I've got a wood button on this one. I've
got the handstitched opin option. I've
got the option that I use on my bee pot
holder for the eye which looks like a
beautiful little flower. And then some
of you just stick on a safety eye. Now
that's not heat safe but of course you
do what you like. You might just be
hanging it as decoration. So, that is
the update and I will link the pattern
in the comment as a pin comment and in
the description. And if you already have
the pattern, if you bought it recently,
you should have the update in your
email.
And if you haven't gotten it, message me
on the platform that you bought it so
that I can get it to you. And comments,
of course, are closed for any paid
pattern because I cannot give pattern
support on a public platform. But you're
always welcome to contact me with any of
the methods in the pattern or on the
platform you make your purchase. I love
to hear from you and I love to help you.
So enjoy.
All right. Okay. So, to make the
pattern, you'll need your 5.5 mm hook,
something to mark your stitch. I'm going
to use just a scrap of yarn. Throw it
over the round. Just keep track of where
you're at. And either a tapestry needle
or my favorite little crochet tool is
the 2 mm. You probably have one floating
around in your hooks somewhere that
you've never used. This is my favorite
kind of crochet finishing tool. And I
have a whole video on how I like to use
this in different ways. Um, scissors.
And then for yarn, of course, because
this is a kitchen item, 100% cotton. So,
you'll need your main color, which is
going to be the color part of the
stripe. And then the accent color, it's
going to be some kind of white or light
color or whatever it is that you choose.
I've seen some makers not even change
the color. They don't want to fool with
it. They just want to stick with their
uh one solid color. You all have been so
creative with your makes. Okay.
And you'll need about 90 yards of each.
So, one ske is plenty in each color. The
skes generally run um 180 yards. Might
even be able to make two.
All right. So, the first issue I want to
address is the ring, the holder part.
Where's my end? And this is
I think for more beginners or people who
don't want to fool with the ring and the
mouth. So, I'm the I'm the wood ring
queen. I use them in so many things. And
originally, I had you work this in at
the start of the mouth. So, the mouth
needs to be an open
circle.
So, I will give you the option to attach
it at the end or do a self hook kind of
a single crochet up around,
work another set of crochet through it
to give it extra strength, come back and
connect it, but um I will be using a
ring and I'll show you how to put it in
at the end. All right. So, make your
slip knot, take your hook, and we're
going to start with 15 for our circle.
So chain 15.
Okay. Then I'm going to make sure that
I'm not twisted.
Come in back here at the start
loop.
Bring up my working
loop. Oops, my yarn is on the wrong
side.
Even if it gets a little twisted, it's
not the end of the world. But, you know,
do do the best you can.
Snug and pull through.
Now from here,
put that tail down,
turn upwards,
and work 15 around. So I'm going to
chain one just to give me some height.
Go back into that stitch I slipped
and start counting. There's one,
two. work in the top part of the loop,
not in the back because we're going to
use the
bottom loop when we go back and put the
ring in.
Two
3
4
Six.
There's 12,
13,
14,
and 15.
All snug there.
Now there's my chain one for height.
Here's my starting loop
or my starting of the um first stitch of
the round. Not starting loop. Slip in
there.
Chain one.
And I'm going to turn it this way. Pull
that tail through so that I know that
this is that
um the opening of the mouth down here.
Throw my stitch marker yarn over.
All right. So, I finished the round. And
before I move into round two, let's
look.
You can clearly see
use this. All of the loops are exposed.
Everything's straight and even
so that when I go back to add in my
hook, the, you know, the hook ring, it
will be no issue, right? Everything's
looking good.
Hook in. So, every round, excuse me, for
this next, let's see how many six. The
first six rounds, you will
slip stitch, chain one, move your stitch
marker. Okay, I don't repeat that in
every round. It says it at the top of
the section. So, I've done my chain one,
find my stitch. Now, for this round,
we're going to start working increases.
And increases mean two stitches into the
same stitch.
So, it says increase in first.
So, I'm going to do one single crochet,
then a second one into that same stitch.
then increase in the sixth stitch. Sixth
stitch. Okay. So, that's my first
stitch. I'm going to go to Here's stitch
two.
Here's stitch three.
four
five
here's my sixth stitch. So I'll work two
stitches into this one
and then again in the 10th stitch. All
right, this next stitch is the seventh
stitch.
Find that V. It's a little twisty this
first round and then it should kind of
even out. Won't be quite as trick oops
as tricky to get things placed.
Stitch seven
8
9
and then here's the 10th stitch
for my final increase of the round. I'll
put two in here.
There's my 12th stitch.
and 15th stitch. So the 15 stitches of
the round with three increases. This
means you will have 18 stitches when you
finish this round.
And I will slip to join. Join where that
stitch marker is. Put my hook in there
to join.
slip. Pull this out. Chain one.
Replace.
Then round three, you're going to
increase again using the same method.
This has three increases. So it says,
where am I at? Two in the first, just
like we did with the last one. Let's
find that first stitch.
It's my slip. So, it's here. One.
So, that's two in that first stitch.
Then the second stitch is stitch number
two.
Three.
Four. And now stitch five. It says to
increase, so I'll do two in there.
Stitch
six,
stitch seven,
stitch eight,
stitch nine.
Here I'm at stitch 10. Another increase.
One stitch in stitch 10. two stitches in
stitch 10, then finish my round and I
will have 21 stitches at the end of this
round. Okay, so this is how you will
increase through round six. Then we're
going to make a little bit of a change,
which I will come back for in round
seven.
Right.
So now I'm on round
seven. So at the end of round six, you
should have 30 stitches
around. And it's you'll see it's looking
like the fish in the image in the
finished image.
And so here we're going Oops. toward my
my little helper here, my little
stitch marker. So, now we're going to
start working with Hubble Hubble double
crochet. What is wrong with me right
now?
Okay, so you're going to do your chain
one still
and then we're going to work half double
crochet and that's going to really start
building out the proportion of the fish.
This is a large, not crazy big, but it's
a it's supposed to be a statement pot
holder, right? So, we want some size to
it. Finished is 8 in by 14 in.
So, I'm going to keep working the
similar increase method, but with half
double crochet this time. Okay. So, two
in my first stitch.
Half double crochet is the yarn over,
pull through three loops.
And again
first stitch and then your next increase
is at stitch number 10. There's one
2
3
4
5
6
7 8
Nine.
Now 10th stitch, another increase.
1
2
and then the last increase will be in
stitch 20. So your stitch number 11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18 19
here's stitch 20. So I'll work my two
half double crochet in here
and two and then finish the round and I
will now have 33
half double crochet.
Okay? and then you'll work your eighth
round and then go on to part two and we
will start the contrast color portion.
So I've uh broken this up into or I will
be breaking this up into smaller
sections so that you can easily
reference where you need to go when
you're working the pattern. Again, the
pattern is linked in the description
and you contact me by any of the contact
methods at the end of the pattern if you
need some help. Happy to help you.
Coming along nicely. This navy looks
really pretty, doesn't it? Very uh
nautical marine.