It is fabulous fun watching your cat play with its toys, frisking and frolicking, scrapping and scratching. But these toys actually have a particular purpose, as playing provides cats with mental stimulation and keeps them physically active and fit. With these very sturdy CatFish, your kitty can bounce and pounce for a very long time!
 
These sturdy cat toys (18 and 10 cm) are a fun, fast, easy project, knitted on 9 mm needles (UK 13, US 00) in Drops Snow.
The CatFish are knitted flat in stockinette stitch with bobble stitches, made to resemble scales (explained in the text) and only a scrap of yarn for each stripe. The tails ask for keeping stitches unworked on the needle during the process.
Use a singular brand and type of yarn for the entire project, so as to create a homogenous fabric for felting in your washing machine (explained in the text). Check with your wool brand if and how your yarn is feltable!

Have a purr-fect knit!
Viv

Many thinks to cat Benji for donating his precious time and looks!