It is an easy, fun and quirky knit. Once over the idea that stripes do not need to necessarily be the ones in the original pattern, knitting was a breeze. Just wasn't very fish like in my opinion, unless you were in love with Clown Fish or African Cichlids. I'm more of a Striped Bass or Rainbow Trout kind of girl;)
Enjoyed it so much that we started a KAL on my shop's Ravelry page: A Tangled Yarn.
Want to know what I did different with my Fish Hat? Well, here you go:
After doing the short row lips…..
K3 from ball A, K3 from ball B Repeat to end of round. Repeat for all rounds.
When it came to the decreases, I either K2tog or SSK depending on which stripe I wanted to decrease on that round. On the knit rounds, I made sure that if I decreased a stripe from 3 stitches to 2 , that I only knit 2 on the knit only rounds when I came to that section of stranded knitting…. and so on and so forth:)
Let me tell you, I would not recommend using all of the same color way for the striped like I did. At one point, the stripes were VERY similar in color during the last couple of decrease rounds and it was pretty hard to keep up with the strands.
The eyes were easy peasey even from someone like me who can crochet, but would never claim to be more than able to follow only the very simplest of crochet directions. Using worsted weight (#4) black wool yarn, I did a slip ring and crocheted about 9 single crochets into the slip ring and joined using a slip stitch. On the next round change to white worsted weight yarn chain 1, do a single crochet in the previous round's single crochet, do 2 single crochet into the next single crochet of the previous round, repeat to end and join with a slip stitch. Very sorry if these directions are not very easy to follow, I'm a Knitwit not a fabulous hooker:)
