Hello, it's Thursday...ish.
This week I'll show you how to crochet a pufferfish, as voted by you in the last Knot My Idea poll. The Patreon second-chance draw is live now, and the winner will be turned into a pattern early next year! get a pattern created winner from the third Knot My Idea vote!

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US terminology used
All pieces are worked in a continuous spiral unless otherwise indicated.

Stitch Glossary:
ss: "slipstitch" - insert hook, yarn over and pull through loop on hook.
ch: “Chain” - yarn over, pull through only loop.
sc: “Single crochet” - Insert hook, yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over, pull through both loops on hook.
inc: “Increase” - Complete two single crochets into the same stitch, one after the other.
dec: “Decrease over two stitches”- Insert hook into stitch, yarn over, pull up loop. Insert hook into next stitch, yarn over, pull up loop. Yarn over a third time, and pull through all three loops on hook.
tc - "triple crochet" - tutorial in video.

00:00 Hello!
00:20 Tools & Materials
00:35 Eye sockets
01:20 Flat face start
01:27 Mouth-face start
03:31 Assemble the face
04:11 Finish the body
05:02 Side fins
06:34 Tail fin
06:53 Assembly

Music by https://www.bensound.com/