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Crochet a colorful candy fish from start to finish with this easy, quick amigurumi tutorial—and no sewing required. Follow the step-by-step instructions as the fish takes shape, from its rounded head and striped body to its flat, slip-stitched tail.
Customize your crochet fish with your favorite yarn colors, make the body longer or shorter, or add embroidered stripes and decorative drop stitches. The tutorial covers materials, shaping, color changes, stuffing, safety-eye placement, and a no-sew way to close the tail. This beginner-friendly amigurumi project also makes a cute keychain. Find the written pattern through the links in the original video description.
Search for a no-sew crochet fish pattern, easy amigurumi tutorial, or quick crochet project for colorful handmade gifts and keychains. A cheerful step-by-step crochet guide for makers who enjoy small stuffed animals and customizable yarn crafts.
Customize your crochet fish with your favorite yarn colors, make the body longer or shorter, or add embroidered stripes and decorative drop stitches. The tutorial covers materials, shaping, color changes, stuffing, safety-eye placement, and a no-sew way to close the tail. This beginner-friendly amigurumi project also makes a cute keychain. Find the written pattern through the links in the original video description.
Search for a no-sew crochet fish pattern, easy amigurumi tutorial, or quick crochet project for colorful handmade gifts and keychains. A cheerful step-by-step crochet guide for makers who enjoy small stuffed animals and customizable yarn crafts.
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00:08today we're going to crochet these adorable candy fish i named them candy fish because they remind
00:14me of pieces of candy and these are very customizable and no sew amigurumi um projects
00:23you can make them with any color yarn you want have fun with color combinations you
00:29can also make your fish long or you can make it short by omitting um body rounds and if you
00:37want
00:37to you can get extra fancy with it and use some drop stitches like this one here you'll see those
00:45longer drop stitches alternating with regular single crochets and it creates this pretty um pattern
00:54so again lots of customization options and these make really great little key chains as well
01:02for materials you are going to use some medium weight yarn i'm using this yarn i got from hobby lobby
01:08called yarn bee it is called comfy classic it comes in some beautiful colors though i have to note in
01:14this video you're going to see me struggle a lot with how splitty the yarn is so i don't actually
01:19recommend it for amigurumi but it is beautiful yarn and the results um they're very soft and the
01:27results i quite like um but if you're looking for enjoying your time crocheting this fish i would
01:34recommend a non-splitty medium weight yarn with this yarn i'm using a 2.25 millimeter crochet hook
01:41feel free to use whichever size you feel like is most comfortable for you to use with your
01:49yarn but just make sure you are able to crochet tightly enough without having gaps between your
01:55stitches on that note um with the yarns you will need a few different colors you can use as many
02:04colors
02:04as you'd like or as few as you'd like um i used one two three four five different colors one
02:11color for the
02:12head and the tail and then i used four colors for the body you will also need some fiber fill
02:21stuffing
02:22some plastic safety eyes i'm using six millimeter eyes and if you want to embroider stripes onto your
02:31fish you'll need a yarn needle to do so all right let's get started on making it
02:41let's start off with round one for round one we're going to begin with a magic ring
02:46and in the ring insert six single crochets that's one oops sorry that's my slip knot actually and here's my
02:56first single crochet
02:57my second third fourth fifth and sixth
03:13after you insert those six stitches go ahead and pull your ring tight
03:19and we'll continue on with round two
03:23for round two you are going to increase all the way around so you're going to insert two single crochets
03:30in each stitch so in this very first one i'm going to put two that's one and two both in
03:39the same stitch
03:45increase and increase and we're going to repeat this all the way around
03:51increase
03:57increase
04:11here's my fourth increase
04:18my fifth increase
04:24and my sixth increase
04:28that will give you a total stitch count of 12 stitches
04:36and now we're ready to move on to round number three for round three you're going to single crochet three
04:43and then increase repeating that three times around so here's what it'll look like
04:50for that first repetition we're going to single crochet three times
04:55just one
04:57and in the next stitch two
05:00the next one
05:02three
05:05and then i'm going to increase
05:19now i'm going to repeat that all the way around
05:22again working three single crochets
05:42and the increase
05:48last repetition
06:08and that brings us to the end of the round with 15 total stitches now we're going to jump to
06:16round four
06:16for round number four you're going to single crochet four and then increase repeating that three times around
06:25i'll show you um the first repetition here
06:29that's one
06:31two
06:33three
06:35and four
06:38and now increase
06:45let's repeat that around two more times
06:56let's repeat that around two more times
07:18after you finish that sequence you're going to do rounds five and round six which is
07:24just to single crochet around no increasing no decreasing we're just doing straight rounds here
07:31so we're going to go ahead and um single crochet around and we'll meet back at the end of round
07:39six
07:54after you finish round six you should have this little dome shape and you will be ready to attach
08:00those plastic safety eyes
08:02i have one put in already i place them between rounds three to rounds four so counting down that's one
08:10two three and four
08:13right between three and four and i'm gonna put my two eyes um six millimeter eyes
08:20just across from each other so that my fish can have eyes on both sides of the head
08:24here's one two three and round four so just right between rounds three and four i'm going to insert
08:33this eye right over here
08:40and with these little ones um you can go ahead and just stick those backings right on
08:56and then you'll be ready to continue round number seven for round number seven you're going to go
09:03ahead and switch colors because now you're going to start working on the fish's body
09:08and for this you can have fun with different color combinations
09:13i have a kind of brick red that i'm using here and then a yellow a green a darker green
09:20and then i go back
09:21in the reverse order so this part is pretty um up to you you can go ahead and make your
09:29fish as long as
09:30you want or as short as you want as well and i'll be showing you how to go through with
09:36the first couple
09:37rounds and then the next few for the body will be exactly the same so why don't we start off
09:44by changing
09:45colors when i change colors i'm going to pull out half of my previous stitch
09:51and this will help with a clean color change so i'm going to insert my hook here
09:59and instead of pulling through and making that single crochet with this
10:04old color i'm going to grab the new color that i want to use
10:13and i'm gonna make a reverse um reverse colored fish for this one so i'm going to actually pull
10:22through that new color to finish off that previous single crochet like so and then with this new color
10:32i'm going to go ahead and crochet all the way around um and you're going to basically do this for
10:38um the next few rounds of the body for rounds seven to round 18 you're just going to single crochet
10:47around and what i'm also doing at the same time is switching colors every two rounds
10:55in rounds 19 and 20 i will be decreasing so i'll show you how that looks
11:01but for now we're just going to single crochet around and i'm choosing to do so for two rounds in
11:09this dark
11:10green color
11:13so here is one and then my next oops sorry i keep undoing these stitches because this yarn that
11:22i'm using is quite splitty and i am struggling to keep it together all right
11:47i do love the feel and the texture of this yarn but unfortunately the splittiness is not fun to work
11:56with
11:57um if you're using a larger hook like if you're making this um as clothing i think
12:07it would be easier but with these small hooks it's easy to just kind of separate the strands
12:14so i should have picked a better yarn to demo this project with sorry about that
12:20but i will let you know what type of yarn it is in case you are interested in using it
12:25or avoiding it this is the um yarn bee yarn comfy classic from hobby lobby yep i remembered correctly
12:38all right hobby lobby and it's a very soft yarn i quite like the um end result it's just unfortunately
12:46it's just unfortunately as i mentioned very very splitty
12:51so
13:02so
13:18all right so here's the first round of the um body done and i like to go around for two
13:25rounds in each
13:26color so i'm gonna keep with this dark green here and of course you're welcome to switch colors whenever
13:32you want um but if you would like to do it just like me you would switch after every two
13:40rounds of the same color
13:54all right um and again i'm just gonna keep going around remember to work down uh from round seven all
14:02the way to round 18 um by single crocheting around and we're gonna meet back at the end of round
14:1018
14:12here is round number 18 complete at this point you can go ahead and stuff the body if you'd like
14:19and we will actually keep stuffing as we work along for the next couple rounds
14:36after you've stuffed the body it's time to work on round 19 for round 19 you're going to single crochet
14:42four and then decrease three times around that will give you 15 stitches at the end of the round
14:49i've already started a little bit here so i single crocheted one two three and here is number four
15:02and then in the next stitch i'm going to decrease so it'll look like this you're going to basically
15:07single crochet two stitches together you're going to insert your hook into the um next stitch
15:15yarn over pull through a loop and then insert your hook into the following stitch yarn over pull through
15:22a loop you should have three loops on your hook and then we're going to yarn over and pull through
15:28all three loops for that decrease and we're going to keep going with this um sequence we're going to single
15:36crochet four here
15:37one two oops
15:46three
15:50and four
15:53and now i'm going to decrease again so pull through a loop in that first stitch pull through a loop
16:01in that
16:02second stitch then go through all three loops to finish off my decrease all right in the last repetition
16:11here let's do the four single crochets one two three and
16:22oops
16:26splitty yarn
16:28and four there we go and here is my decrease
16:38all right and that concludes round number 19. for round 20 we're going to do another round of
16:45decreases we'll single crochet three and then decrease three times a round let's go ahead and do that
16:58single crochet one
17:02two
17:09and three
17:12and now i'm going to decrease
17:19let's repeat that a second time here single crochet one
17:27two
17:30and three
17:34and then we're going to decrease
17:42and last time around single crochet one two
17:49and three
17:54and decrease in that last in the last two stitches
18:01and um i'm actually going to be switching colors for this next round we're going to go to the tail
18:08color and um remember if you want to stitch colors you want to finish off this last stitch
18:14using the new color so let me go ahead and grab that my tail color is the same color as
18:21the head
18:21i'm just matching it up here so i'm going to pull through with the new color
18:27um to finish off this last stitch
18:30for round 21 the tail you're simply going to decrease around
18:35so i'm going to go into this first um the first two stitches here
18:41and oops
18:45do a decrease
18:53then in the next two stitches
18:58decrease again
19:05and repeat that all the way through
19:36and i'm going to snip off this um previous color
19:40we'll no longer need it
19:42if you want to stuff your fish a little more at this point you can do so
19:47the hole is pretty small
19:50so you might need the end of a crochet hook
19:53to stuff um both stuffing and yarn in
20:11so now on to round 22 you're going to increase around in the front loops only
20:18and there is some flexibility here if you don't want to crochet in the front loops only it's okay
20:23to also crochet around in both loops like normal um but if you're crocheting in the front loops only
20:30remember that normally you go through both loops of a stitch the back loop is the one farther from you
20:37here and the front loop is the one closer to you which is in the front
20:43so let's go ahead and uh work around
20:47i'm going to insert my hook into that first front loop
20:53sorry my yarn just split again so let me go ahead and grab
20:57oops
20:59all right i think this is the last time i work with this yarn on video it is
21:06causing a lot of um unnecessary revisions
21:10okay so going into this front loop i'm going to increase by putting two stitches in the same loop
21:20now i'm going in the next front loop here and i'm going to increase again
21:26remember to work all the way around you're going to um go from 6
21:32to 12 stitches at the end of this round
21:51all right and there you have it with round 22 complete round 23 you're just going to single
21:59crochet and increase six times around that's going to bring you from 12 to 18 stitches
22:06let's go ahead and work back in our normal um the both loops
22:12so that's single crochet and then increase in that next stitch
22:24single crochet
22:37and increase
22:48And we'll meet back at the end of the round.
23:04Once you finish all the way around for round 23, what you'll do at this point is you're
23:10going to single crochet until you reach the very end of, or the very edge of the tail.
23:17And this part really depends on where you place your fish's eyes.
23:22Some of you, if you place them in different locations of the head, you are going to need
23:29fewer single crochets or more single crochets to get to that very end.
23:35All right, so right now, and it's because we want to make sure we can fold our fish's
23:40tail flat before stitching it together.
23:45As you can see here, it's stitched together.
23:49And you'll want the flat part of the tail to be aligned with the spine of the body.
23:58Okay.
23:59All right.
24:00So here, I'm folding my tail in half to see where the spine is.
24:08And that means I'm going to go down for one, two, three, four stitches.
24:14So I'm going to single crochet four.
24:16Oops.
24:17I may have miscounted.
24:18I didn't see that one there.
24:21Let me go all the way down to the edge of the tail.
24:23So that's one, two, three, four, and I'm thinking I probably need a fifth stitch, but let me double check.
24:43All right.
24:44Yep.
24:45One more stitch down here.
25:01And once you have that done, instead of continuing on, you're just going to either do one of two things.
25:10If you want to sew the tail shut, you can fasten off with a long tail, a yarn tail here,
25:16and then just pinch together the ends of the tail and sew them together with a running stitch.
25:22Or a whip stitch.
25:25If you want to keep this a completely no sew project, what you would do is slip stitch across the
25:32two layers in order to sort of sew it shut.
25:36So let me go ahead and show you how the no sew method is done.
25:40I'm going to insert my hook into both stitches.
25:46When I fold the two layers together, I'm going to insert my hook into both those layers and yarn over.
25:54Oops.
25:55Kind of tricky here because my yarn is so splitty.
26:01Sorry.
26:04I'm really struggling with this.
26:07All right.
26:08I recommend a non-splitty yarn for this Amigurumi or for Amigurumi in general.
26:16All right.
26:18And slip stitch here.
26:20I'm going to have to manually pull this over.
26:23Oh boy.
26:25All right.
26:26And now, going into the next two stitches, pull yarn through for a slip stitch.
26:43Let's keep working along here, stitch by stitch, getting those two layers closed up.
27:17And when you reach the last two stitches, you're just going to fasten off.
27:27With a yarn tail.
27:33If you want to embroider lines on your fish, you can do that by leaving a longer yarn tail.
27:41And you can go ahead and attach it to a yarn needle.
27:47And while you weave in this end, you can embroider those lines to your fish.
27:54Now, you also want to check to see where the top and the bottom of your fish would be.
27:59I decided to make the color change at the bottom because I don't want it to be too obvious on
28:07top.
28:08So, here is where the front of my fish would be.
28:13Or you could go on this side as well.
28:17But I'm going to go ahead and insert my yarn needle in and kind of weave in that end first.
28:27Oops.
28:29This is a mighty big needle.
28:31This is a mighty big needle, huh?
28:32I guess my stitches are too tight.
28:35Let me try and poke it there.
28:37There.
28:39Sorry.
28:39I needed some strength to get that in.
28:42Okay.
28:43There we go.
28:46So, let's see.
28:47You can go ahead and embroider those in.
28:49I'm going to just check for placement here.
28:51I kind of did it in this round.
28:56Oops.
29:05Oh, I'm just on the struggle bus here.
29:07Alright.
29:09I'm going to pull this up.
29:11I liked how my lines looked in this first one.
29:14So, I'm going to count.
29:15One, two, three.
29:16Oh, it's three rounds thick.
29:20So, one, two, three.
29:22I'm going to put it up here.
29:27And then find the matching stitch on the bottom.
29:42All right.
29:46So, here's the first stripe.
29:48And I'm going to go over one, two, three again for my second stripe.
30:11And one, two, three for my third stripe.
30:21And you are welcome to embroider stripes on both sides of your fish if you want.
30:29I'm going to embroider it in just one side.
30:32So, I'm going to go ahead and get ready to fasten this off now.
30:50And this project is a lot of fun to make because, as you can see, it is no sew.
30:56You can do it without, well, unless you want to embroider the little stripes on your fish.
31:02But you can do it pretty on the go.
31:05Feel free to be creative with your color choices.
31:08There are endless color combinations to explore.
31:11And I've had some of my followers mention that they want to crochet this with some catnip on the inside
31:18and give it to their kitties, which is such a cute idea.
31:22Just be sure that you're not using safety eyes for those.
31:26I would recommend leaving the eyes out or embroidering eyes very securely and tightly so that they don't get pulled
31:34out if they become a cat toy.
31:37Okay.
31:38Alright.
31:39Anyways, thanks for checking out my video tutorial.
31:44Hope you enjoyed making these with me.
31:46And happy crocheting!
31:48Bye now!
31:49Bye now!
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