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.
My computer doesn’t believe that houndstooth is a word, but really, it is!
And here are 3 fish with houndstooth weave wool.
This one looks like zigzag from a distance but close-up, you can see the houndstooth pattern.
This one is dark green and white- it is very soft so it is probably woven cashmere or maybe an angora blend, but I’m not sure. I bought some lengths of it at an estate sale of a fashion seamstress. In the house, I thought it was black and white!
And here they are, hanging out at the pool.
Two light colored fish. I remember exactly where I got the body fabrics- The top fish is an awesome coat fabric. I went to a fiber swap and someone had brought a vintage (70’s?) coat. I took that home! The white textured weave fabric I picked up in Northampton, MA after I did a show there. I went to a shop that sold supplies for rug-hooking. It had just changed ownership. The new owner put out a pile of free wool fabrics. Why yes, I did grab a bagful. That fabric was probably never going to work for rug hooking but it is good for me!
The last month has been busy, involving some travel and other fun and/or more boring real life things. Now I have something to show because, yes, I have been getting a little work done! It’s fish-y time. I cut out and sewed up a load of fish- that’s not even all of them.
Here is who got finished first-
Blue tweedy fish-
and blue sweater fish-
And there is more to come!
