Seeking this pattern - shell stitch

[JusOneKiss]

I've desperately been seeking this pattern for quite some time. I just so happened to run across someone selling crochet who quite obviously has the pattern. I've sent a message but as of yet no response. This is a link to the ebay site where she is selling. This person does some pretty fantastic work. If anyone recognizes the pattern can you please clue me in??? Thanks for all and any help

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360072581238&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DWatching

[Lisaizme]

To make the raised front, you'd need to work behind the stitch instead of into the top of it.. similar to Irish crochet.

[Chrissypa]

Hello, I've been thinking about this pattern and to me it seems that for the "bottom" white shell she crochets in the back loops only and then crochets in the front loops in different colors. Just a thought. Hugs, Chrissy

[Amy]

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[Croyarnster]

It looks to me as though it is a fan square more than a shell - worked in rows starting in the corner. I love a mystery and when you find out what the pattern is called, please let us know. thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

[craziebunny]

:hiand

http://crochetpatterncentral.com/ here is link to all kinds of free patterns. Boy that person does some really beautiful work!

[JusOneKiss]

:hiand

http://crochetpatterncentral.com/ here is link to all kinds of free patterns. Boy that person does some really beautiful work!

 

Aw..thanks Crazie, but its not there...

Thats one of the first places I looked.

I'm hoping someone either remembers it from a leaflet or book and can give me a place to start hunting/shopping for it

[RoseRed]

I've never seen that pattern anywhere online. It is gorgeous tho. I like it better in the 2 tone than solid.

 

Will you share with us if she shares with you?

[bert]

it is beautiful! would you share if you can? Bert

[teapot]

Hi. would this be a terry kimbrough pattern by chance??????

If not and you get the pattern can i get it too??? Teapot:cheer

[kittyloverdeb]

Me too, me too! I have never seen that one before and it is really beautiful! It kinda looks like boullion stitches in the shell.

[appy_lover]

Wow, that is quite beautiful. And I might add that her prices are more than reasonable. I love the filet afghan with the ponies, and for $20 I would rather buy it than go to the trouble of making it (but then again I don't enjoy filet that much).

[shelly_bean]

wow that is really pretty. All her work looks amazing.. Makes me wonder if they are her own design.

[ReniC]

That is one beautiful afghan.

Looks to me like she just switched the shells around from the cover pattern of a Terry Kimbrough/ Leisure Arts book:

HEIRLOOM AFGHANS FOR BABY

Hope this helps!

[Craw]

WOW, that is one beautiful afghan! I'll be watching in case she tells you where the pattern is.

[kittyloverdeb]

Well I emailed the seller on ebay and she said it is a pattern that her mother learned long ago. She said that she may be posting some patterns soon tho and that she would let me know.

[JusOneKiss]

Well I emailed the seller on ebay and she said it is a pattern that her mother learned long ago. She said that she may be posting some patterns soon tho and that she would let me know.

 

Yep...I had that exact same email awaiting me when I got home from shopping. Just in case I went and check the new book on shell stitches...208 shell stitches or some such. Beautiful as those were - it did not contain that particular pattern.

[Granny Square]

What an unusual pattern! Did you notice it was like fish scales, the green shells were were separate from the background?

[cdschlea]

I wonder if someone emailed this woman if she would publish and sell her pattern. Just judging by how many of us here love the pattern and would purchase it, I think she's make herself some fun money!

 

If anyone figures it out, sign me up! It's absolutely beautiful!

 

:hookColleen

[dmandy]

I could be wrong but doesn't this pattern look very similar?

 

http://bloomingpatterns.blogspot.com/2008/07/fan-ciful-towel.html

 

 

Donna Marie

[JusOneKiss]

I could be wrong but doesn't this pattern look very similar?

 

http://bloomingpatterns.blogspot.com/2008/07/fan-ciful-towel.html

 

 

Donna Marie

 

Thanks for showing me that Donna, but no....its almost as tho after crocheting the fan/shell across in white, they turn it, change colors and crochet in back loops only across with the color, then turning and changing back to white continue back across in the remaining loops....I'm experimenting now....

[stitchylady]

It is a beautiful afghan! I've never seen one quite like it. Intriguing!

Doreen

[christinanthemum]

It looks like a triangle shell just done from the corners and not in straight rows...

 

I'll check a pattern book I have at home and see if there's something similar that can be made into that. Can't promise, but I'll see!

[eyrthmother1]

very neat pattern. I'm curious just like everyone else on the stitch/combination of stitches.... and also how she makes any money w/ her prices. w/ work like that, worth a lot than in the $25 range.

 

Sandy

[Vickietoria]

It's beautiful! It looks like a corner to corner type idea, with shells, and perhaps a color change here and there. Gives me some ideas of things to play with though! Yeah, she should charge a lot more for that blanket, especially with the large size!

Thanks for sharing!

Victoria

[JusOneKiss]

Well, I look at it this way.....while I'm busy experimenting with this pattern/idea, hopefully it got all you ladies (and mens) creative juices flowing, and we'll have a pattern shortly.

 

As for her underselling her work. I agree, however I watch so many many people do that for some pretty stupendous work. I'll never forget listening to a person at a get together tell me that she OVER PAID for the lovely afghan I was admiring on her couch. She said she got it at a garage sale for $5. I was floored! There must have been a minimum of $20 worth of just the yarn in the huge afghan. And the work was lovely. Not to mention the hours and pride this person put into this work (the stitching really was superb)....sigh