Level: Basic to Intermediate. I used cotton yarn like Sugar and Cream, about 30 yards of each color for striped or about 20 yards Color A and 50 yards (or less) of Color B on size 6 needles.
This can be done in a solid, variegated or striped pattern, just watch rows and use contrast for head, tail and fin.
I did this because I was playing around with a standard heart pattern at Valentine’s Day, making washcloths for granddaughters and thought, “I think I could do something similar for a fish”. My grandson got the first fish. The edges are a bit complicated just so they don’t roll. You can do a standard (K2, YO) on the edges if you don’t care. The stitch is a hybrid seed stitch that I made up to make the fish body look a bit more rough, like scales.
This is just the second pattern I’ve created and written up. It’s not difficult, but you need to keep track of the rows. The only thing that might make this an intermediate pattern is that there are some yarn over changes that go from a knit to a purl in pattern or vice versa.