Fish cot mobile

This is how beautiful and entertaining it is to make this crib mobile for newborns, made by Natalia from @mercería_del_barrio. If you're going to get to work, don't forget to give it a personal touch by choosing your favorite color in our online store!

MATERIALS

Two colors you like of Rubí Natural (for this mobile we used colors 021 and 022)

A little bit of Rubí Natural white and black cotton

2.5mm crochet hook

Stuffing for amigurumi

One plastic ring

Stitch marker

Tapestry needle

FINAL RESULT

ABBREVIATIONS

MR: magic ring

SC: single crochet

SL ST: slip stitch

INC: increase (make two stitches in the same stitch)

DEC: decrease (two stitches become one)

R: round

PATTERN

This project is crocheted in a spiral, so there's no need to close rounds; we only mark the last stitch of each round. Unless otherwise stated, the sequence is repeated until the end of the round.

BODY

R1: 6 sc in MR

R2: 1 inc in each stitch (12)

R3: 1 sc in each stitch

R4: 1 sc, 1 inc (18)

R5: 1 sc in each stitch

R6: 2 sc, 1 inc (24)

R7: 1 sc in each stitch

R8: 3 sc, 1 inc (30)

R9-10: 1 sc in each stitch

R11: 4 sc, 1 inc (36)

R12: 1 sc in each stitch

R13: 5 sc, 1 inc (42)

R14-27: 1 sc in each stitch

R28: 5 sc, 1 dec (36)

R29: 4 sc, 1 dec (30)

It's a good time to stuff the fish

R30: 3 sc, 1 dec (24)

R31: 2 sc, 1 dec (18)

R32: 1 sc, 1 dec (12)

Finish stuffing if needed

R33: 6 dec. Cut the yarn, with a tapestry needle, pass it through the front loop of all stitches and pull to close the body completely.

TAIL FINS

R1: 6 sc in MR

R2: 1 sc in each stitch

R3: 6 inc (12)

R4: 1 sc in each stitch

R5: 1 sc, 1 inc (18)

R6-8: 1 sc in each stitch. Make a sl st in the next stitch, cut the yarn and crochet another fin the same way, except for the last sl st and without cutting the yarn.

Once you have both fins made, you need to join them. To do this, insert the hook into the slip stitch of the first fin you made; this is the first stitch of round 9.

R9: 1 sc in each stitch of both fins, for a total of 36 stitches.

R10: 5 sc, 1 dec, 1 sc in the last stitch (31)

R11: 1 sc in each stitch

R12: 4 sc, 1 dec (26)

R13: 1 sc in each stitch

R14: 3 sc, 1 dec (21)

R15: 1 sc in each stitch

R16: 2 sc, 1 dec (16)

R17: 1 sc, 1 dec (11) Cut the yarn and sew the tail to the body with the tapestry needle.

EYES (two per fish)

R1: 6 sc in MR (black color)

R2: 1 inc in each stitch (white color). One slip stitch, cut the yarn, weave in the ends and sew them to the fish with white thread. Embroider the baby's name on the fish by syllables, making as many fish as there are syllables in the name.

MOBILE

Now it's time to assemble the mobile. With yarn corresponding to the color of each fish, make a slip knot, insert the hook into the center of the fish, and make 50 chain stitches. Repeat the previous step for all fish, but for each subsequent fish, make 15 more chain stitches than the previous one.

Once you have made the chains for all the fish, tie the ends to the plastic ring and, with your preferred color, make single crochets, covering it completely and hiding the knot ends.

Mobile finished! Now hang it in the crib or wherever you prefer!