The Accidental Embroiderer

Five fishes

A few weeks ago I posted photos of some decorative herrings.
Here is another fish hanging, but this time it’s based on tropical fish. The
bodies and fins are embroidered separately and then stitched together and
lightly stuffed. The fins are stiffened with PVA glue, and the fish strung
together with nylon fishing line, which makes the connection between them
almost invisible. The photo is so long that you need to scroll to see it all but I didn't want to make it smaller as then you couldn't have seen the details

 
Fourfish

The mobile is a lot of fun to look at and I really enjoy
having it up. It wasn’t a lot of work to make, and for a while I was thinking
of submitting the patterns and the directions to a craft magazine so that other
people could make it. However it can be a bit fiddly, and the stitching of the
fins is particularly challenging, so perhaps I’d better choose something a bit
simpler to submit for publication

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