30 September 2008

Sea creature knitting patterns

Hansigurumi has a large collection of sea creature knitting patterns for sale on her Etsy shop.

I'm partial to the anglerfish. These fish belong to the order Lophiiformes and live in the deep sea where very little light penetrates. They're named after the glowing lure they use to entice unsuspecting prey into their mouth, like an angler (fisherman) catches fish.


Also the nudibranch pattern looks a lot like their colorful real life sea slug counterparts. Nudibranch means 'naked gills' and refers to the feathery gills you see coming out of their backs.


p.s. The 100th post on this blog!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi, I look for your sea creatures knitting patterns in etsy but I couldnt find them. Hope you can tell me where to buy them or maybe you can share them with me. I want them for my baby room decoration.

Unknown said...

Hi, I look for your sea creatures knitting patterns in etsy but I couldnt find them. Hope you can tell me where to buy them or maybe you can share them with me. I want them for my baby room decoration.