Knit (or Crochet) a Pokeball

Are people still playing Pokemon Go? I never downloaded it, but I know I read the peak of downloads came on the day it was released, and the most users ever was a week after that, so I’m not sure how many people have stuck with this trendy game.

Whether you’re playing or know someone who is, crafting Pokeballs and other Pokemon-inspired objects is a lot of fun.

Studio Knit has a great tutorial for how to knit a Pokeball, which uses a clever bit of duplicate stitch to make it look more authentic without having to do any fancy colorwork.

If you’d rather crochet your Pokeballs — sometimes crochet is faster and better for certain things, even I will admit — I stitched up some crocheted Pokeballs over at Craft Bits. They were so fun to make I don’t even care that I have no idea what they are for!

Have you knit or crocheted any Pokemon-related items? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Studio Knit.] Looking for more Pokemon patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

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I can’t resist a pattern that’s both useful and a little silly, and that’s exactly how I feel about the Rybka pouch pattern from the delightfully named Rat and Sea Witch.

I know you’re going to ask, because I did, too. Rybka means little fish in Polish. (And because you’re also probably going to ask, Rat and Sea Witch comes from people’s attempts to say the designer’s name, Ratasiewicz, which if you say it fast kind of sounds like rat and sea witch.)

It’s easy to make a little fish bag in different sizes to suit your needs. The pattern has specific instructions for an Airpods Pro case and a pencil case, but you could change the length easily to hold more stuff, and change the size in general by working with a different weight of yarn.

The pattern calls for sock yarn and mohair held together to make a fingering weight gauge, but you could try it with heavier yarn and see what size bag you end up with.

Whatever size you make it, this looks like a fun project for holding trinkets or everyday items. The mouth of the fish is the mouth of the bag, and it closes with a drawstring that is also the strap. I wonder, too, if you could make one of these with a small clasp frame that could be the fish’s mouth and then you could just work I cord straps that would attach to the sides of the fish.

I could also see stripes, or fish of different colors to use up your yarn leftovers. How about a sunglasses case with a little loop to attach to your bag? Once you start thinking about all the ways you could use a fish-shaped bag in your life, I think you’ll see that you probably need more than one.

If you make one of these I would love to know how it went!

You can grab a copy of the pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Rat and Sea Witch]

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