This model has been begun and undone quite a few times and has a way to go before it is ok. The sewing up the suture spirals is a tricky job and one has to try variations in numbers of stitches.
This one began with 10 crochet chains, increasing once each 4th stitch every 2nd row until 121. The thin inner section is reduced to a small square in corner just under where the tip of the spiral will be.
Top area is made by decreasing stitches 121 to 97 to 76 to 63 maybe to 51 or 41......wider at opening of shell. It is a typical Hyperbolic Geometry shape.
more to follow.....
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Insert 12/06/2015
This was sewn up 5/6/2015
A better Pattern would be 121, the, 97, then 63.....51.....here it went to 41 stitches which makes a smaller spiral. 51 or 63 would make a more extensive spiral.
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Obviously, more fine tuning is needed- to make more body length-
121 crochet stitches at widest circumference.
To shape the anterior end (rhs)
With glue, make work stiff,
shape the beginning work area (anterior end) at 10, 15, 18, 22 stitch rows.
The real seashell is 9cm at its widest and 11cm in length.
Spire has more whorls than the model has.
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No wonder I find difficulties, am progressing slowly by trial and error. Crocheting of the hyperbolic shapes is a great step forward, thanks to Dr Daina Taimina.
I remember when I was a little girl of 6 years old. My family were artists. Talk among visitors was how creative work was like God's work (artists were like God).
I used to chase butterflies, and got the idea to create wings for a butterfly. First I caught one, and cut off its wings, but then I didn't know how to attach paper ones (maybe I didn't even get around to drawing them!). I still remember the flush of horror and shame as the damaged body was dropped off the edge of the veranda.
The urge to create from Nature is still strong, and still as elusive to achieve. Obviously the real article is fabulously, wondrously and intricately wrought, in comparison to human efforts to copy. Some folk are mystically gifted and almost succeed.
My thought is that Nature Spirits are intimately involved with the continuous growth of Life Forms. The Telesummit which I recently mentioned in a post did discuss various aspects. Marco Pogacnik speaks of the Body Elemental who is assigned to each human before we are embodied in matter, coming from spirit, who is there for each one of us. There must be a similar Nature Elemental which directs the matter spiritually in accordance with the blueprint (Hinagata as the Japanese say) in all of Nature.
Scientists will argue against this. It is not in the textbooks. Yet someone like the late Dr Candice Pert, a USA Molecular Biologist who discovered the site in the brain for opiate receptors speaks up on YouTube interview. "We are more like flickering flames than lumps of meat". And she advises us that we are told lies. Cancer is caused by pollution.
Others are saying that we must think our way spiritually out of the disastrous problems which face our world. Material thinking needs the balance of respect and awe. It will be a most creative act to transmute ourselves out of our jinxed condition. I am talking about myself, obviously.
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