FO: Tessellating fish baby blanket

 

Pattern:  I found the fish pattern by searching on the web for “tessellating fish” and made up the rest myself

Yarn: Bernat Satin in Lagoon, Spring and a multicolor that I’ve lost the ballband for.

Needles: US 7

Size made: I knit 44 fish in total; making the blanket 4 wide x 11 high with an afterthought border on the long edges

Completion time: February – May 2007 (in spurts)

Notes: The title of this post makes me think of the tongue twister “rubber baby buggy bumpers” for some reason. Try that 5 times fast! This project was a joy to knit (but a real pain in the a** to sew up- all those ends!!) The individual fish pattern was fairly simple and it took only a few fish to memorize it. After that, the fish just flew off the needles, taking between 25 and 30 minutes to knit each one. I agonized over my color selection and how to organize the fish and eventually settled on a “wave-like” blue/green combo with a family of 3 multicolored fish clustered in the center (some might think “agonized” is too strong a word to use, but if you’ve ever found yourself kneeling on the floor in the middle of the yarn section rearranging balls of yarn into different combinations, then you know I’m not exaggerating. ‘nough said.) 

The intended recipient of this was my first niece/nephew and I really wanted to create something special. It was very well received, although I just found out that my sister didn’t realize that there was more than 3 fish in it until my nephew was almost 4 months old. She blames it on the pregnancy hormones causing temporary post-partum blindness.

Here is an up-close look at the focal point:

 

I knit one more of these last year for my god-daughter, but forgot to take a picture. For my second attempt I made it very colorful with 6 different colors arranged at random. Another hit. I don’t think that you can go wrong with this blanket idea, but I think that two is my limit. Beautiful results but oh, the humanity of having to weave in all those ends!