Knit fish blanket – project status with link to pattern

Stacks of knit fish

For years I have been lucky enough to have a dedicated craft room/office.  And yet, as I type this post, I am sitting at the dining room table instead of in my office.  The reason. . . After our most recent move to Missouri, the craft room/office was never fully put together.  There are still piles of supplies and half-finished projects all over the room. It is difficult to walk through, much less work in.

I struggle to think straight in a messy room, and so until I get the craft room/office in order, I am toting everything I need to be productive each morning out to the dining room table.  While the craft room/office is always the last room to be unpacked after a move, it has been too long, and I am itching to get that space put together. Unfortunately, the closet in this room is less than half the size of my last craft room closet (and that room was a little cluttered), meaning I need to clear some stuff out to really get it in order.

How this project started

So I am determined to get through the backlog of half-finished (or sometimes almost totally finished) projects and start to get the space into shape.  After I finished the last knit blanket (see the posts on this project here, here and here), I pulled one of the many bags of unfinished knitting projects out of the closet.  And discovered a ton of knit fish!  

These fish were hiding in a project bag!

I had started this knit fish blanket several years ago using odds and ends of dishcloth cotton yarn leftover from other projects.  Then something else caught my attention (I can be great at starting projects, but sometimes I struggle to finish them), or it got lost in the shuffle of a move, and nearly forgotten.

Luckily the pattern was printed off and in the bag (I am not always so lucky when I re-discover half-finished projects).  So I pulled out the bag full of yarn leftover from the last blanket and got to work churning out more fish!

My knit fish blanket

I did the math and decided I want to have 240 fish in order to put together a blanket that is approximately five feet by six feet.  Right now I have 61. That means a lot more fish need to be knit up before I can start to sew this together! I’m not sure I will have enough yarn in my current dishcloth cotton yarn bag, but I will be keeping an eye out when I go thrift shopping in the hopes I will be able to add a few more balls to complete this project!

School of fish swimming along

Sewing these fish together is going to be a massive undertaking, but after my success on the last dishcloth cotton blanket, I am optimistic I will be able to do a great job!  And to make it even more involved, I am already considering adding an applied i-cord border to this blanket once complete given how much I liked the look it gave to the last project.

I will keep you posted, but if you are interested in starting your own knit fish blanket, grab the pattern here.  For reference on my size and scale, I am using dishcloth cotton (worsted weight) and 5 mm knitting needles.  My fish are approximately 5¼” from nose to tail and 4¼” across the long edge of their tail. And if you haven’t read my ode to dishcloth cotton blankets, hop on over here to see why it is my blanket yarn of choice!

Hoping you join in with a colorful mountain of fish of your own!