The Adventurous Aquarium is growing!
This fish sparkles with sequins, beads and thread, there should be enough glitter for the magpie in all of us!
I chose to make a chevron edge on this version of the Sequin fish but the chevron can easily be replaced with adding extra passive pairs, sparkly ones would be good.
I chose silver sequins and I worked them with 4 pairs of Gütermann silver glitter thread. When adding the sequins, the pairs from each side do not cross over each other in the middle. Work them with one pair at a time. The left pair sews through the centre, then returns to the left side, and the right to the right. Place a pin in the centre of the sequin so the tensioning of the sequin thread does not disturb the equal distribution of the sequins. On a larger area of sequin ground, this is quite important.
4 pairs of silver for adding the sequins (when cut off, they are reused for the tail sequins so wrap more thread on one bobbin than the other).
4 pairs of Perle 8 in two contrasting colours for the chevrons. Simply increase the passives if you don't want to do the chevrons.
6 short pairs to add in for the passives in the fins.
4 pairs passives (placed on each side of the chevron threads)
4 pairs of workers.
There are tutorials for the chevron edge, adding sequins and beads on my youTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/@LesleysLace/
