This’ll be the last of the batch of fish I made for the pop-up- moving on to finishing the cats I started in December.
This one looks almost black but is a very dark green. I got the green and white fabric at an estate sale of a fashion sewist. The houndstooth is at least partially angora- it has that soft fuzziness to it.
The top fish is black, gray, and black and navy stripes. The bottom fish is black and white houndstooth, gray, and white.
The fish are “swimming” on my new (to me) studio love seat. It is so nice to have a comfy place to sit!
Yesterday, some friends in my building organized an afternoon pop up and I pull all the goodies out for a show.
It was a fun afternoon, meeting some new people and chatting with friends. The fish were on another sofa and I forgot to take their photo. I made some new ones because the Holiday season had left my stock depleted. Here are the first 2-
A pink fish and a red fish.
I thought I was done for the year but then a friend made a request and I made some more!
I made 2 sets of fraternal twins, same body colors but switched around heads and bodies. That way they could pick their favorite.
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And one more-
And here they are in my studio-
I will post the extra fish in my Etsy shop.
And you can see what I am working on next: Cats and Foxes!
Amazing fabrics! Amazing color!
And here is the whole gang… I mean school.
One high-fashion fish and one orange houndstooth. High-fashion, you are wondering? Yes!
This fish fabric was given to me in a bin filled with someone’s cleared out fabric stash. This was the label pinned to it-
Pretty fancy, eh?! Hermes! I love how it started at $150, but eventually got to $32 a yard. That must have still been very expensive in the time when they were still using these kind of labels.
And the Orange Fish-
There are some little fin stitches to keep the fin in place.
This one is made from some rough Mexican fabric in a beautiful dark aqua.
Fish pillow number 12 and the that’s enough fish pillows for now.
The purple body fabric was some more of the wool I took home from the free table at the rug hooking store. It had been a skirt once. Onto the next thing. Right now I am doing prep work- cutting and doing the machine sewing. It is always the best to have a bin-full of ready to go projects!
Their heads and tails- one fish has dark red, the other dark green.
The bottom fish is made from a beautiful vintage textured wool. The top fish sports a gorgeous wool plaid. Both fabrics were gifted to me- how lucky am I?!
The head and tail are a dark green boiled wool- so knit and kind of bumpy.
Dark red and orange to match colors in the plaid.
This next one is made from an old, moth-eaten Hudson Bay blanket. It needed a new life.
