The 144 Model, Crocheted **

 Here is a display of my most recent crochet/knitted seashells.

 None are perfect yet and it's a gruelling business to write up an accurate Pattern.

This page is for writing up the 144 stitch model.  lower right.   Sooner or later.....

There are a number of ways to sew it up.

It's getting better-  lower left shows a new way of using thread=  fine thread crocheted over a thick yarn.  Might help with making thin inner column and thick outer lip=  quite tricky.

The spiral at top of each seashell-  mathematical model uses concentric circles of increasing circumference in accordance with the fibonacci series-----then merged to form spiral ---which is almost exactly right!

There is a lot of maths which I have been figuring out--  will publish when it's documented up.

Also there is such a vast array of configurations to study --- here are some shells I bought in a  Queensland chemist shop for $20.
 (You can see images of others-- Australian Seashore species in a previous post- "Real Seashells",  of 5/4/2013,  courtesy of New Holland Publishers.)

And here is a tiny Australian native snail, found on stem of old zucchini plant last Autumn.   Less than 1 cm long.

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to be continued....