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Fish To Sushi Plushie

A transforming sushi to fish, fish to sushi plushie.
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I'm obsessed with sushi, so I made some fish-friendly sushi!

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Here are all of the templates you need for this project. You can download and print out the template here:
Download the PDF.

Don't worry if you can't print it out, just make up your own templates, it's pretty easy.
Cut out all of the templates. Notice how the small circle is designed to fit inside the fish's mouth.

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Take the fish body template and draw around it on the yellow felt, flip it over and draw around it again.
Cut these felt shapes out.

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Draw around the fish tail, fin and flipper templates twice on to orange felt, remembering to flip the template before drawing the second.
Cut these out.
Thread a needle with yellow thread and place the two felt fish bodies together, so that the wrong side (the side that may have a bit of pen around the edges) face out.

Start stitching around the fish with a hemming stitch, working backwards from the mouth.
When you get to the places where the back fin and tail should go, flip the fish inside out, place the two pieces of fin or tail (right side facing out) in between the body and stitch in place with a running stitch.
Flip the fish inside out again and continue sewing. Stop when you reach the mouth, you want to leave this unstitched and open.
Flip it again so that the right side is facing out. Stitch the two flippers on to either side.
Take the white felt and draw around the large circle template twice.
Take the small circle template and draw around it in the center of one, and only one, of the felt circles.
Cut out the two larger circles and cut out the small circle from the center of one of the circles.
Draw around the sushi seaweed template on to the green felt and cut it out.
Thread a needle with white thread. I used quite thick thread for this as this part of the fish and sushi will have the most wear and tear. Place the fishes mouth around the inside circle and stitch in to place. Put this to the side for the moment.
Take the second circle and the strip of green felt and stitch the green felt around the circle.
When you've stitched all the way around the circle, stitch up the open side and cut off any excess green felt.
Now take the circle with the fish (wrong side facing out) and stitch around it on to the green felt, leave a tiny unstitched opening so that you can turn it inside out again. Turn inside out (so that the right side is facing out and stitch up the rest of the sushi.
Glue some wiggly eyes on to the fish.
Voila! Now have fun turning the fish in to sushi and the sushi in to fish. It's like magic!

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tom./

June 9th, 2008 00:52

Wow, I love flicking through those photos!

Kiki

June 9th, 2008 01:31

My goodness, this is like, one of the awesome-est things ever! I'm so going to make this now. Thanks for posting!

Danyell W.

June 9th, 2008 01:42

i love this! i used to have a transforming tadpole to frog plushie when i was little, but this is just too rad.

katie

June 9th, 2008 02:59

OMG this is amazing!

KaRa!

June 9th, 2008 05:43

THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! yaaaayyy!

kermit

June 9th, 2008 06:22

whahaha! This is brilliant!

Lilla

June 9th, 2008 07:01

haha, this is so funny! :D

tara m.

June 9th, 2008 07:31

This is one of the coolest things I ever seen. I am so going to try to do this. :)

Katarina M.

June 9th, 2008 10:07

Haha.. cool stuff! :D

Alice T.

June 9th, 2008 10:28

omg that is such a cute idea lol!

Amy J.

June 9th, 2008 15:25

Monday morning eye candy!!

queenfairypants

June 9th, 2008 16:24

woooooow! In craft: there was a reversable chicken and egg, made out of knitting I well want that pattern, may have to work it out in felt by using this how to and adapting it!

astral_sakurachan23

June 9th, 2008 18:30

OMG!!!! I'm sooooooooooooo making this right now!!!! *________*

Geslepen

June 10th, 2008 01:54

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

Emily

June 10th, 2008 03:15

ooooh my this is fantastic

im going to make it...tomorrow.

:DDDDD

made me smile

Emily

June 10th, 2008 03:15

ooooh my this is fantastic

im going to make it...tomorrow.

:DDDDD

made me smile

ʎǝɔɐɹƃ

June 10th, 2008 17:49

This is amazing - is this the plushie you were talking about before ??

Knittin' Kitten

June 10th, 2008 21:45

Jesus christ, it's wonderful!

cinderelly

June 14th, 2008 23:46

how clever is that! look how many others think so too! :D

cherry rabbit mama

June 16th, 2008 17:35

AMAZING!!!! IM DOING THIS!!!! =D

Char P.

June 17th, 2008 11:35

dah! of course I'd love this one :D

Cat Morley

June 18th, 2008 21:47

Thanks for all the nice comments everyone. Gracey - yeah it is!

Kris B.

June 19th, 2008 03:37

Bf agreed to play conquer club (online RISK) w/ me if I made him one of these sushi-fish. Yay bribery! ;)

Alexandria Sherbert

June 19th, 2008 13:31

Haha, i love this! I'll have to make one to keep by my pooter at work :)

Mi.ezekatze

June 20th, 2008 11:27

Looooooooooooool, this is SO great xD

Sarah

June 22nd, 2008 04:10

Cat, this is so brilliant I'm disgusted at my own crafty inadequacies. :D

AMAZING!!! <3

Tosh

June 26th, 2008 15:48

Haha this is wicked! i would have never came up with something this clever. well done! p.s you rock!

Lilim

June 27th, 2008 19:20

Fishie! Awesome I've been wanting to make a fishie just like this for awhile now. Thanks for the tips ♥

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June 27th, 2008 20:03

holy cow it's a miracle! my family owns a japanese restraunt so that'd be the coolest decoration ever!

tiffany says.}

June 27th, 2008 20:03

holy cow it's a miracle! my family owns a japanese restraunt so that'd be the coolest decoration ever!

camilaustral

July 2nd, 2008 22:13

this is so funny!!! :D

Moon M.

July 3rd, 2008 00:29

THATS F-ING AMAZING!!! THATS SO CREATIVE! How the heck did you come up with this idea?!?!?!

Ezme

July 3rd, 2008 14:28

no way! that is amazing! x

Dust of Enchantment D.

July 5th, 2008 09:33

This is really fun! I want one! :D

Roses are red

July 7th, 2008 15:03

OMG! It is magic!! XD Just brilliant!

Pinocchio

July 31st, 2008 14:00

so cute i m totally trying this

Thedarcy

August 8th, 2008 19:52

this is really cute
i love sushi!!

xvampyx

August 14th, 2008 22:43

one of your best projects XD thanks for posting it,

I made the plushie last night and everyone at work LOVES it! I need to make a new one though because all my knots are on the wrong side, I got mixed up with what was going to be on the inside and outside while I was making it, oops!

mamachka

October 4th, 2008 15:32

OMGCat!!! You never fail to amaze me how brilliant your crafting is! :-)

Pumpernickel Babe

October 19th, 2008 05:45

Is this really super hard to do?

ThePinkPanther

November 7th, 2008 16:46

Such a cool idea! I will definitely be making these!

Caley

November 10th, 2008 11:55

This is the most creative and hilarious craft project! I've featured a link to your project on the Foodie page of our Homemade Christmas Gift Guide. Hehe, you have to have a dark sense of humor I suppose.

ninethreeo

November 21st, 2008 21:46

That.is.genius

Martha

December 11th, 2008 14:31

Such a clever idea!!

Nattila the Hun

December 16th, 2008 03:19

TOTALLY AMAZINGLY AWESOME!!!!

These r about the size o a hand, right?

Naomi :]

December 16th, 2008 21:39

Ahh, that is so cute! The photos just makes me laugh :P

Nattila the Hun

December 16th, 2008 22:14

quick..........
EVERYBODY ADD TO fAVORITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Treeish

December 28th, 2008 23:44

I'm tempted to try a bunny into a hat one now... this is ACTUALLY amazing, thanks!

Lundora

January 4th, 2009 16:17

Oh my god, that's so cruel and cute! :D

Amy B.

January 9th, 2009 04:17

Hi Cat, what kind of glue did you use for the googly eyes? I tried using just regular white craft glue but they fall off! I'm afraid to use anything too strong in case it melts through the eyes and then the eyes won't wiggle anymore. Let me know what you can suggest, thanks!!