A shell stitch (or a fan stitch) is a common motif in afghans and sweaters. A shell can vary in size but the basic premise is the same: multiple stitches in one stitch from the row below followed by several skipped stitches to keep the rows and stitches even. The size of your pattern will determine whether you do double or triple crochet shells and how many of those stitches there will be in each shell.
Instructions
Make a Five Triple Crochet Solid Shell Pattern
1. Make a slip knot. Put your hook through the loop. Make a foundation chain of a multiple of six plus one. For example, to make three shells, make a chain of 19 (six times three plus one).
2. Chain one more. This is your turning chain. It's actually part of the next row.
3. Skip three chains (not counting the one you've just made).
4. Make five triple crochet stitches in the next chain stitch (the fifth from the hook). This is your shell.
5. Skip two chains. Single crochet in the next stitch. Skip two chains.
6. Repeat the pattern (shell stitch, skip two, single crochet, skip two) until you reach the end of the row. You should end with a single crochet in the last chain stitch. Turn.
7. Chain two. Make two triple crochet stitches in the last single crochet stitch from the row below.
8. Skip the next two triple crochet stitches. Single crochet in the next triple crochet stitch. Skip the next two triple crochet stitches.
9. Make a shell stitch in the next single crochet stitch.
10. Repeat this pattern (skip two, single crochet, skip two, shell stitch) until there is only the turning chain stitch left.
11. Make three triple crochet stitches in the turning chain stitch. Chain one.
12. Repeat the first and second row until you've reached the desired length.
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