A couple of days ago I began to work on Z’s Halloween costume. She will be 3 months exactly on Halloween. A few months ago the idea of a mermaid tail popped into my head, and stuck. I’m making the pattern up as I go along. Yesterday I ripped out the scaled part a couple of times trying to get it to look right. This was my first try:
I’m making this out of Dream in Color Starry in the color Blue Sage. It has little silver fibers spun with the merino to make a slight sparkle. I bought this a couple years ago. Dream in Color no longer makes Starry with actual silver, which makes me a little sad. One of the salesmen that comes to Hand Held told us that it became to expensive to use actual silver. It’s gorgeous yarn either way.
Halloween is probably my favorite holiday, and though Z is only going to be 3 months old on this coming one, I know having a daughter is going to make my future Halloweens much more fun and rich. I can’t wait.
OMG this is looking beautiful so far!!! Your daughter is very lucky to have a crafty mum. Any plan to publish the pattern…?
I’ve never made a baby/kid pattern. I might try to write it up at some point if i figure out the sizes. Thanks for the compliment!
oh wow! I have never seen a knitted mermaid tail before. I’ve seen a lot of crochet ones. I love the way the scales are coming out. I hope you do get around to publishing this one.
This is very cute. At first, I thought it was a hat with bunny ears – but this is even better. Good luck with it!
I want to see a photo when it’s finished !… it will be wonderful, I’m sure !
Neato! Love the scale pattern you’re working with now!
ADORABLE.
Can’t wait to see this! She’s going to look SO CUTE!
those are some lovely looking scales!
I LOVE this! I also thought it was a bunny ear hat but got really excited when I realized it was a mermaid costume. Can’t wait to see pictures of it finished!
Loving the revised scales, super mermaidy!