Soooooo, I wanted to try something new with blankets. I started at one corner, made the middle wide, and ended at the opposite corner. The first picture is about half-way finished. As you can see, though, it didn't exactly come out square. It's more of a diamond shape than a standard blanket, but it's okay, because that's the way this one worked out. Besides, who says all blankets have to be squared (or rectangle)?
The first stitch was a double stitch and expanded it into a three-stitch shell. That is basically the pattern. The second row had 2 shells, the third row had 3 shells, and so forth and so on until it was at its widest point and I started decreasing the rows. I used a simple double stitch and anchor before I started the first shell of each decreasing row. If you look in the last picture, my index finger is at the bottom of a shell and my middle finger is at the side of the same shell so you could see the pattern up close. Each shell (except for the very first one) begins and ends with an anchor from the row before. It's a really neat stitch. I hope that whatever little girl receives this blanket enjoys it!
Notes: A shell stitch starts with a double (or triple) crochet stitch and can be expanded to 3 or 5 stitches. The base of the shell stitch is the first loop made at the base of the first stitch, each subsequent stitch of the shell starts in the same loop. Each of the side shells are anchored at the bottom in the corner of the shell from the row before. In rows 2 through the middle, increasing, there is an anchor at the top of each shell from the row before that makes the corner of the current row and the bottom of the next row. In the middle rows to the end, decreasing, start with a double (or triple) crochet, anchor it at the top of the shell from the previous row, then yarn over (loop the yarn over the crochet hook) once for a double stitch or twice for a triple stitch and anchor at the bottom of the current row like normal.
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