As much as I love all the wonderful creatures inhabiting the worlds’ dry lands, I am even more fascinated by Earths’ magical watery worlds and their colorful inhabitants. Here is a way to dive into the enchanting and spectacularly splashy underwater world, without even getting your feet wet!

The dazzling diversity of finned friends found in the Caribbean Sea is one of the reasons people get hooked on snorkeling and scuba diving here, around the exquisite and exotic islands! Among the ornate opulence of fish species around the islands, you’ll discover finned friends, comprising every color of the rainbow and a plenitude of patterns.

This pattern contains the rock beauty, spotted drum, stoplight parrotfish and the yellow tube sponge.
Only small amounts of yarns are needed, so a reef fish is a great project to use up any scraps you have lying around.
Together, these fish make a great mock aquarium or a colorful crib mobile.

The reef fish and sponge are a fun, fast and easy knit with some intarsia work, done on 2.00 mm double pointed needles (UK 12, US 0) in a super fine yarn (Scanfil Mending Wool in various shades, in this case). They can be done on thicker needles in heavier yarn and will turn out somewhat bulkier. The fish are filled with toy stuffing.
The rock beauty measures 7 cm, this spotted drum is 6.5 cm and the parrotfish measures 10.5 cm. The sponge stands at 6 cm height.

Even if getting submerged is not your thing, you can have a fin-tastic time knitting these underwater buddies!