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Update on the fish eye
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Update on the fish eye

A few days ago, I posted a question about joining techniques in the eye of a fish that I am making.
You were very helpful with some comments and ideas, so it is only reasonable to update you on the progress.

As it turns out, the only thing worse than my English is my ability to follow directions.
I ended up somewhere in-between the suggestions, and save for a few mistakes here and there, it seems to work. It would be possible to undo the entire thing to fix the mistakes, but I've done so twice already and I'd like to eventually finish it. No one is going to notice it once the music is playing anyway. :D

Thank you very much for your help!

u/Pede_BB — 22 hours ago
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Crotcheting within lacing

I started a fish-project a while ago, but have for a couple of months been stumped by the eye.
It should have been one of the easier projects in my book, but something feels odd on the crotcheting part, so I am hoping you guys could give me a hint.

My work so far. The dark thread is supposed to make the outer ring, the light thread will crotchet the inner ring and fasten it to the already made border.

Basically, two pairs of threads are going from the border to make the eye of the fish. I find the text somewhat confusing (see below), but assumed it from here would be a twist of the light string and a whole stitch before crotcheting the light string to the holes on the outside. But if so, then there would be nothing preventing the dark string from collapsing inwards towards the middle once the pins are removed.

Do you have any suggestions for how to properly stitch the eye to the border?

For further elaboration, here is the worksheet and the diagrams from the book:

Work sketch from the book.

Description of how to make the eye and a picture of the finished fish by the author.

The description is in Danish, but I'll do my best to translate below. As I'm not too familiar with the English terminology, I had to stick with a single Danish word in there: gangpar, which is the pair of threads going from side to side, across the others.

Technique:
Start with the border around the fish with 3 turquoise pairs in the middle of the band in cloth stitch and 1 pair of dark turquoise on each side in whole stitch. 1 turquoise gangpar.

When the head has been laced, the border pair and the gangpar goes in to lace the eye like this: (see figure 10)

Braid the first bit. Place a needle and let the light pair continue as gangpar and the dark as the outer ring. * twist the gangpar and let it go through the dark pair, twist and crotchet to the border. crotchet to the next holes and go back through the dark pair to the middle *.

Continue from * to * until all holes have been used. Leth the gangpar be crotcheted to the middle from 1-5.

Now they will braid back to the border and the band can be finished.

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u/Pede_BB — 6 days ago