I wanted to be able to say there was a whole lotta' seaming going on at my house this weekend. It was rainy and cooler, and would have been the perfect weather for the project except for the fact that I was on call, and that kept me just busy enough that I didn't have the uninterrupted stretches of time needed to finish up Tweedy. I did buy
buttons, and got them sewed on, and I got one sleeve set in. To be fair, that took a few tries to get everything matched up just right, as it usually does for me with set-in sleeves. I took notes though, and the second sleeve should go much faster. Then it's just some easy mattress seaming up the sleeves and down the sides, and I'll have a sweater. T -6 days and counting for my self-imposed deadline of finishing before my ski trip.
I was catching up on the knitlist this weekend as well, and noticed that people are talking about the Tesselating Fish Afghan again. I wandered across April's photo last summer and was sorry that the fish pattern had been taken down. It's just so cute! Apparently the pattern is from Knitter's #51, which is out of print and hard to come by, but will be published in one of their next books. Interestingly, one of the knitlisters had mentioned that the pattern for fish is still up on a German blog, and with some crafty Google-ing, I found it here. (The actual German knitalong is hosted here.) 
So I set to while I was lazily watching TV Saturday night, pulled out my old German textbook, and here's the first little fishy I made of some leftover Koigu. I like it! Last night I added 3 more to the total in a couple of hours. I've been looking through the old stash, and between other Koigu I have from my Charlotte's Web shawl, and some solid sock yarn in the stash, I think I can put together a baby blanket that doesn't necessarily look like it's made with leftovers.
That has to be the cutest thing Ihave seen in a LONG time!! I clicked on your link to the German site...but no pattern. :( Any ideas?
Your sweater is going to be gorgeous!
Posted by: Jackie | January 24, 2006 at 07:32 AM
Thank you for the link to the german tesselating fish pattern. I've had the english pattern bookmarked for a long time, but today discovered that it was taken down. Have you had any luck finding an english version?
Posted by: Lisa W. | February 01, 2006 at 04:27 AM
I am trying to get a copy of the fish afghan. It is so cute and would be great for all my leftover scraps. Please can you help me. Thank you.
Posted by: Mary Richwine | April 11, 2006 at 04:26 PM
Will you send me a copy of your translation of the fish afghan pattern?
Posted by: Jenny | July 02, 2006 at 11:24 PM
Here is the "old" link to the tessalating fish afghan:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051222161048/http://www.charitablecrafters.org/Tesselating+Fish.htm
(You may have to copy & paste to be assured to have the full link.)
If the above link does not work for you, try this:
http://tinyurl.com/ywgzk7
The site is the "Wayback Machine". If you know the link to a page that is now gone you MIGHT be able to find it archived.
Posted by: Jeannie | September 25, 2007 at 01:58 PM