#shell stitch

Notes Oversized crochet cardigan, with Pikmin 4 appliques. I bought some white and pink variegated yarn for Christmas. The model is me Time Made between December 2025 - Januar 2026. Tutorial/Pattern Hexagon cardigan shell stitch - by Amora https://youtu.be/NtHSRl_etuk?feature=shared

Pikmin appliques: These were freehanded by me. I did not follow a pattern for these.

Crochet Puff Flowers - by Hooked By Robin https://youtu.be/8Rvfkv1S4sc?si=ccnpcJut6KSoTSJ1 (I made it with 5 petals instead of 6) Ribbing: Front post stitch and star stitch.

Material 100% Cotton yarn from Europris (Cotton Medi) 100% Cotton yarn from Panduro 5mm crochet hook for the cardigan 2,5mm crochet hook for the appliques Yarn needle to weave in ends.

Characters Oatchi Pikmin Red, Yellow, Blue, White, Rock, Ice, Winged, Purple, Glow

(Tumblr refuses to let me upload all my pictures at once from my phone. Sorry for the format.)

basically, I made a gift for my aunt who has invited us over to her place for Christmas day. Originally it was gonna be a friendly mushroom with frills underneath its massive cap.

However, as I worked on it and draw closer to finishing the bottom of the cap, it looked more like a bird to me .

The technique I used to get the layers of shell stitches to look like feathers actually is kind of a wrist breaker if you’re not careful.

essentially, after you did all your increases up to 42 stitches in increments of six stitches and worked up roughly about three rows of single crochet.

in the front loops you start off with a single crochet then you do a shell stitch with five treble (double) crochets which gets secure immediately by slip stitch into the Free stitch next to it and then you repeat by making another single crochet until you’ve reached the end of your round after making your last shell stitch. You put a single crochet.

and in the back loops, you would decrease and then repeat this process until you’re up to 24 stitches. After you finish your final row of shell stitches you just simply see your crochet up the top 24 as if you were just crocheting a sphere and you finish off when you have six stitches from decreasing after five hours of 24.

That is effectively how I got the body .

Admittedly, all of this is free handed, and my wrists are in dreadful pain as a result.

though now I have something pretty cool to give to my aunt and a better idea what I’m gonna do next time I’m gonna try something like this because I really do love the end result.

In fact, I have to take the second row of the first explanation and match it to the second row of the second explanation to actually get the damn thing to work.