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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:57 am

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I just started knitting, and creating the pattern for, an Angelfish amigurumi for my friend's birthday this month.

This will be my first knitted amigurumi pattern from scratch.

I will keep you updated of milestones in my progress.

Step 1:
I chose a source image to work from.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image razz terophyllum_altum.jpg
Then I pasted the picture into a spreadsheet (Open Office), rotated it, changed the grid to 0.8 cm width by 0.45 cm height. I set the picture as the background and then coloured in the parts I wanted to use for my pattern.

Since an angelfish is quite a flat fish, I don't think I have to worry about 3D aspects too much.

This is what I did in the first day of working on the project (11 June 200 cool :

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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:58 am

By following my chart, and then reversing the knit and the purl rows for the second piece, I got the two main pieces of my fish:

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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:59 am

Before sewing up all the pieces:
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Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 3:00 am

Sewing the seams, sewing the fins in at the same time, was tough fiddly work. But the end result is worth it because I got it finished in time and my friend loved it heart

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Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 4:34 pm

pattern only shows the side of the fish. how are you planning on working the fins and tail?

Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:59 pm

ladyjewell

pattern only shows the side of the fish. how are you planning on working the fins and tail?

I will rib them in a thinner yarn after I've done the body. I'm just working it all out as I'm going along smile

I'm not sure how to flip the body to make the other side. Any help appreciated biggrin

Edit: I worked out how to flip the pattern for the other side of the fish. For the first side I was Knitting left and Purling right on the pattern, so for the other side, Purling left and Knitting right worked.

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Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:58 pm

ladyjewell

pattern only shows the side of the fish. how are you planning on working the fins and tail?

I ended up doing the fins in a similar way, rotating them to fit in my spreadsheet and colouring over the top. I simplified them a little too. When I made my decreases for the fins, I placed them at the edges so that the fins would remain flat.

I made them ribbed, but what I didn't work out until I started knitting them, was that I had to do two rows of each colour in the fins to avoid having lots of thread to clean up afterwards. By doing two rows of each colour (in my fish, pink and yellow), the end came back to the same side as it joined, and the next colour could switch in along the edge.

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