biomathcraft: How to make a small Kelp Shell.

Small Kelp Shell. PATTERN. This post continues on from 20/7/2017 post.

Cast on 131 stitches.

Row 1. Cast off 5, knit 50, turn, leaving the remainder of stitches on needle.

Row 2. Slip 1, purl 50, knit 1.

Row 3. Cast off 2, knit 80, turn.

Row 4. Slip 1, purl 79, k 2 tog.

Row 5. Cast off 1, knit 100, turn. The above makes a small lip edge of 10 stitches at top of work.

Row 6. Slip 1, purl 99, knit 1.

***The beginning of every knit row is the mouth of the mollusc shell. To make a flared edge, indent 3 stitches. Ie. At end of purl row. turn, knit 3, turn, slip 1, purl 1, knit 1, turn. Begin the knit row.

Row 7. Work entire row of 121 stitches. Knit 3, knit twice into 4^th stitch, then entire row, increase every 4^th stitch; Thus 121 to 151 stitches.
You can knit this row in another colour, to mark the 151 row.
You can mark this row with another colour eg black as in photo of green one, threaded between stitches, if you are making a one colour model.

Row 8. Knit 1, purl 149, knit 1.
I always knit each end of purl rows to stop work curling too much. You may prefer to just do purl. Row 9. Knit 151.

Row 10. Knit 1, purl 149, knit 1.

Continue, decreasing every knit row, knit 3, knit 2 together. until 1 stitch only remains.

**This makes the hyperbolic fan shape which is typical of this spiral shaped model.

Remember to indent at mouth edge.

Photos describe how to sew up. Pad with teased out cotton wool as you go.

**in the white model I knitted 121 stitches in row 7. Then I changed to green wool to knit increase row in row 8, thinking it might be easier to sew up if I did this. Then rows 9 and 10 etc were as above, in white. The variegated green shell had the same number of stitches, but the yarn was thinner, maybe 2 ply. I think the white cotton was 3 ply.

I used gauge 2 (ie 2 mm) knitting needles; these are size 12 in English. Or size 14 if you wish.

2 or 3 ply cotton for knitting. There are problems with configuration if you use too bulky a yarn for these small models. It might be hard to find such yarn these days….

some more later....

18/9/2017
sewing up......edge to row 7....more info asap........gathering diagrams etc. sorry to take so long!

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More 21/9/2017
note, corrections have been made to above Pattern.

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