Shell Crochet Stitch.
Part 4. Decorating Filet Crochet with Shell Stitches.

Shell crochet stitch is quit traditional and many crocheters like to use it for their projects. It is easy to crochet and together with other crochet stitches provides a lot of variants for creating attractive crochet patterns. Recently at Ukrainian crochet magazine "Duplet" I've found another approach to this traditional stitch. It was used as a decorative element for filet crochet mesh.

A talented Ukrainian designer Svetlana Lebedeva suggested a few unusual modifications of this traditional stitch. She spreads the single shells on the filet mesh creating patterns with different rhythms, combines shells into the groups, changes their orientation on the surface of the filet mesh, uses different color for shells to make them even more decorative, creates attractive 3-D structures on the filet crochet mesh, and etc.

Here is the simplest variant of Svetlana's approach to decorating filet crochet mesh using shell stitch. Each cell of the mesh consists of double crochet, chain 2, double crochet, (dc, ch2, dc). Follow the steps below.

	Each decorating shell is based on the loop created by two double crochets. At the cell where you plan to crochet shell stitch,crochet 2dc instead of dc. Turn your work 90 degrees clockwise. Arrow shows direction of crocheting.
	1st Row. Crochet eight double crochets (8dc) into the loop of 2dc. Fasten a shell to a filet crochet mesh by one single crochet (sc) at point "A". Turn you work 180 degrees.
	Passing point "A", crochet two more double crochets (2dc) into the loop of 2dc.
	2nd Row. Turn you work 180 degrees. Watch direction of the arrow. Crochet ten single crochets (10sc). At the end of the row join a shell to a filet crochet mesh by one double crochet (dc).
	Continue filet crochet mesh as usually. For designing your own filet crochet patterns decorated with 2-row shell crochet stitch, you can consider a chart of basic filet crochet mesh filled with shell stitches. Click for chart. (new window opens).

A filet crochet mesh decorated with shell stitches looks great as a crochet fabric itself or as an edging. Its attractive 3-D structure will decorate perfectly detail of a dress: collars, sleeves, pockets, and so on.

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