Original animal: Pixel-to-Crochet Chart Converter

A fish drawn from an ellipse and a tail

This original eighteen-by-twelve illustration uses a teal body, orange tail and fin region, one dark eye and a cream field. Its goal is retaining a very rare feature color while preserving the animal's facing direction. The fish faces left, with its broad tail toward the right. It is a flat graphic defined by a body region, a tail region and an eye pixel; it supplies no stuffed-fish construction.

Give the one-pixel eye an explicit check

The source has 152 cream pixels, forty teal body pixels, twenty-three orange pixels and one dark eye pixel. These total 216. Set four maximum colors so all four exact input colors can be represented. The one-pixel eye matters more to recognition than its small area suggests. A reduced palette may remove that distinction, so compare the actual eye coordinate rather than relying on the number of colors in a legend alone.

Read the tail as a region of fabric

The triangular tail meets the body's right side in the original coordinate drawing. The orange fin region inside the body shares its yarn with the tail. Those separated orange areas do not imply a separately crocheted fin or tail component. Work the complete rectangular background and every colored cell. If a larger version is needed, draw a new higher-resolution source and review the narrow connection before attempting it in yarn.

Choose a practical color management method

One dark eye can leave disproportionate yarn tails if a new supply is attached only for that stitch. Sample a secure method consistent with the intended fabric, and record it separately from the graph's visible stitch budget. Do not stretch a tight dark carry across the whole cream field. Similarly, assess whether one orange supply can connect the tail and internal fin without changing drape or exposing an unwanted float.

Questions and repair decisions

Why is the fish facing right?

Compare the original tail and eye locations. A horizontal reflection changes direction while preserving all four color totals.

Can I omit the background near the tail?

No. These are worked cream positions. Omitting them changes the rectangular row counts.

Should I enlarge the eye with extra crochet stitches?

That changes the cell structure. Create a revised source or document a separate embroidery addition rather than calling it the same exact conversion.

Download the source and reproduce the conversion

Download the original PNG input. This code-drawn illustration is shown enlarged with crisp pixels below; it is not documentary photography.

In the Pixel-to-Crochet Chart Converter, set 18 columns, 12 rows and a maximum of 4 colors before choosing the PNG file. Conversion occurs locally. Use Reprocess source image after changing resolution or the color limit. The exact native source uses 4 output palette slots: yarn 1 #f4ead6 (152 stitches); yarn 2 #307e86 (40 stitches); yarn 3 #cb7742 (23 stitches); yarn 4 #23303f (1 stitch).

Download the exact converted project JSON for restoration and comparison. The saved grid uses the lower-left origin. Preserve it before trying another image or palette; a resized or reduced version is a separate design.

Work the actual counted fabric

Use compatible smooth yarns and a suitable trial hook. Chain 19 and work 18 US single crochets from the second chain. Later rows use one uncounted turning chain and alternate working direction. Change color on the final pull-through before the next yarn. In UK terminology these single crochets are double crochets. Follow every row below, then fasten off and weave ends. Measure a washed sample for physical dimensions and material consumption; the pixel budget excludes carries, tails, seams and any later border. See the chart-reading guide for matching the symbols to the written route.

1. In the first listed working color, ch 19. Start in the second chain from hook. Read right to left: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
2. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read left to right: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
3. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read right to left: #f4ead6, #cb7742, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #307e86, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
4. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read left to right: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #cb7742, #cb7742, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
5. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read right to left: #f4ead6, #cb7742, #cb7742, #cb7742, #f4ead6, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
6. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read left to right: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #cb7742, #cb7742, #cb7742, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
7. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read right to left: #f4ead6, #cb7742, #cb7742, #cb7742, #cb7742, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #23303f, #307e86, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
8. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read left to right: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #307e86, #307e86, #307e86, #cb7742, #cb7742, #cb7742, #307e86, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #cb7742, #cb7742, #cb7742, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
9. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read right to left: #f4ead6, #cb7742, #cb7742, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #cb7742, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
10. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read left to right: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #cb7742, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
11. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read right to left: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]
12. Ch 1, turn (does not count). Read left to right: #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6, #f4ead6. Work one sc per cell; change color on final pull-through. Carry inactive yarn loosely. [18 stitches]