Here is photo of completed model, crocheted with the right hand in one direction and with the left hand in the other direction, to make an even surface. Directions will soon be posted.
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Insert 10/11/2015
Today I am repeating some data from posts subsequent to this one. You have to scroll upwards to newer posts. I am continually making repeat models, and have trouble remembering exactly how I do them. I am 70 years old.........all the clues are given....it is not good to spoon feed info to people.....better for folk to figure out for themselves!
To date there have been 898 ...pageviews of this post. Thus I am making eforts to explain it better.
the little point up top is not necessary.
it was just me trying to figure out the shape.
You can see it is complex. Three different areas vertically. Not easy to type up a normal crochet pattern. Sewing up I later stitch it from top right, outside face, in a spiral moving down so that it is a right hand spiral, with the wider opening on the right when you look at the underside of the model....
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Update 16/4/2014
1. You might like "Instructions for Making a Model of a Seashell", given at the very beginning of this blog, plus a gallery of many different models, crocheted and knitted. 5/25/2010 or 25th May 2010.
The Pattern is in accordance with the Fibonacci Series of Numbers where .....8+13=21, 13+21=34, 21+34=55, 34+55=89. To work the Pattern we use 34=2x13+8, 55=2x21+13, 89=2x34+21 etc.
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2. The Pattern for this new Seashell depicted in this post of 2012 here is completely different from the 2010 models. Here the basic Pattern is 4 stitches become 7 or 13 stitches become 21. The diagram explaining it is at "Crocheting the Vortex" 4/28/2011. I made the mistake of assuming that people were aware of this when I made this "A Proper Pattern" post.... click on image to enlarge it.
3. This present Seashell was first announced in "Time Flies" of 11/22/2011. Related posts were in 5/26/2011.
Then we have "A Proper Pattern" of 1/19/2012 (this one), "On the Trail of the Fibonacci Snail" of 3/19/2012 and "The Seashell Model" of 2/24/2012, especially visual instructions for making this present model in "Now it's Getting Closer to the Real Thing" of 2/24/2012, then some more work....trial and error...
4. See "Internal Structure of Seashells" of 5/4/2013 to understand the complexity of the shape.
Also "Real Seashells" of 5/4/2013, "The First 135 Fibonacci Numbers" of 5/4/2013 and "Diorama" of 1/31/2013
5. Most recent work is happening on "The Real Seashell Updating" of 2/3/2014 and "Adding Time and Space" of 2/1/2014 which gives another way of displaying the Pattern (an easier one) and it discusses variations. The most recent model, a black and white one is being attempted. It has some improvement in making the knob on top, but still it is not yet perfect: a work in progress 4/16/2014
It definitely is all a process of trying something and seeing what happens. You can use any kind of yarn you like, and any size needles or hook you choose. The UK/Australia vs USA have different gauges and different names for the stitches, and it is hard to spell it all out exactly.
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Adding, 5/6/2014
A new model as close as I can get to the "Proper Pattern" of this post has been made. Text for Pattern is being typed. I called the pilot model a "proper pattern" in the sense that it is more like the real thing than the models I originally made in 2010.
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Insert 20/5/2014
The problem with a blog is that one reads backwards, that is , downwards. To access newer info one must scroll up dates on right hand side of top pages to see ongoing work. I noticed that I have worked on this model for two more posts immediately, and there I mentioned the differences in stitches for crochet in UK/Europe/Aust vs USA plus size needles and hooks differ. I am putting new tables to explain better how to increase and decrease Pattern to achieve Fibonacci series numbers used in this project.
PS see post 12/26/14 for "Information for US and UK Crocheters" for full data.
This above model here is too hard to write up. One needs to be able to crochet with left hand and right hand to have an even outer surface with no ridge. Plus the shops selling fine crochet cotton yarn---they no longer stock these, or have closed! Our world is becoming poorer in some ways....
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There is a pattern online, Medium Seashell #1, by Ms S. Whitlock, 2007
See www.ravelry.com found under seashell images.
Also thanks to Michelle for another address:
http://sites.google.com/site/surawhit/mediumseashells
I had a go at crocheting her model, and I thank you, Susan. The bumps are really nice.
34 stitches max.
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My friend Penny had a real seashell of the type, as above.
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Insert 6/7/2015!******it has been made! a Pink Seashell Part 4
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More 3/4/2015:-
It is Easter time, and am making efforts to publish a nice easy Pattern for making a Seashell. Please see http://www.biomathcraft.blogspot.com/april2015. I hope this connects directly.......
No, it doesn't. You will need to scroll up in time index, above top right of blog.....
This is 8 cm tall and 4 cm wide.
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More: 22/9/2017
A Green Knitted kelp shell. easy increases, 4 stitches to 5 or 5 stitches to 4.
Pattern is given.
The green model is 366 stitches at max; the smaller shell models are 150 stitches at max.
Use steel knitting needles, size 12 or 14, or so.
Scroll up (top right hand side of page) to September 2017.
There is a post in 2017 with index to all work from the beginning, see at a glance.
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