When You Wake Up with a Fish in Your Head…
the only thing to do is spit knit it out as fast as possible.

The fish is FINISHED!

It is stuffed with another moss-stitched, double-layered piece knitted from the same thread.

(In November of 2007, I woke) up with an idea for a knitted fish: the tail is one of those lace patterns that draws up in the middle and droops into fishy tail-points at either edge. The base of the tail narrows and turns into a tube, then increases to a larger tube. The fins on the back and belly are flat while the body continues round -- some tricky double-knitting there, I think. I’m not sure if the eye is a bead or an eyelet. It depends on whether the fish comes out more lacy or more texture-y.

The fish languished for a long time after the dorsal fin was knitted, because I couldn’t make the shape I had in MY head of ITS head. Finally I drew it out on knitting graph paper and just obediently knitted the numbers.

All the fish lacks now is some bead-y eyes.