Fish & Family

Here are the first fish for the knitted aquarium - all my own designs once again as any patterns I have are far too large.  The goldfish here are roughly one and a half inches long and cute as a button - I want to knit lots of them and have them hanging from a mobile!  The aquarium itself is on it's way - I have cut out a suitable box for the base and prepared the bottom and sides of the actual tank from foamboard.  Now I need to get knitting to cover them all and also figure out a way to keep the pieces of tank together as there will not be any actual glass or even cellophane to anchor them - reflections when filming are bad!

Considering what an arty family I come from, it always surprises me that so few of the younger members have inherited any artistic ability.  However, my niece in Athens, Greece, is a talented jewellery maker and has finally (after over a year of badgering her) opened a shop on Etsy.  It's very new with not much in there at the moment as she is still uploading all her photographs, but it's worth taking a look.  Inspired Life is the name, keep an eye on it...