Crocheted Fish Motif

This thread at Crochetville got me to thinking and I came up with a crocheted fish motif.

This pattern is untested, I've only made one and wrote the pattern as I went so if anyone makes this and finds an error please let me know.



Pattern © 5/30/2005 Julie Hicks

Crocheted Fish Motif

Materials:

Small amounts of worsted weight yarn-app 1 oz for each

fish, maybe less.

Crochet hook size H

Gauge: Fish measures 10½" from nose to tail
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Ch 7, sc in 2nd ch from hook and each ch across-6 sc, ch 1,

turn

Rows 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14: Inc in first and last sc, ch

1, turn

Rows 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15: Sc in each sc across, ch 1,

turn. At the end of row 15 you should have 20 sc.

Rows 16, 17: sc in each sc across, ch 1, turn.

Rows 18, 20, 22, 24: Dec over the first 2 and last 2 sc

across, ch 1, turn.

Rows 19, 21, 23, 25: Sc in each sc across, ch 1, turn. At

the end of Row 25 you should have 12 sc.

Row 26: Sc in first 5 sc, dec over next 2 sc, sc in last 5

sc, ch 1, turn-11 sc

Rows 27, 29, 31: Sc in each sc across, ch 1, turn.

Row 28: Sc in first 4 sc, dec over next 2 sc, sc in last 5

sc, ch 1, turn-10 sc

Row 30: Sc in first 4 sc, dec over next 2 sc, sc in last 4

sc, ch 1, turn-9 sc.

Rows 31, 32, 33: Sc in each sc across, ch 1, turn.

Rows 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46: Inc in first and last sc,

ch 1, turn.

Rows 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47: Sc in each sc across, at

the end of Row 47, finish off.

Happy crocheting.

Edit: They don't quite tesselate right so a friend made some improvements, I'll get them up as soon as possible. Thank you, Kahud