how to crocheting the petite shell stitch for this stitch you will need a crochet hook and a ball of yarn special thanks to our sponsor Lion Brand for providing today's yarn today we are using their kitchen cotton line in the color Cayenne for this stitch you will need to know the following techniques chain stitch single crochet half-double crochet for this stitch you will need to do a foundation chain in multiples of two ok to begin this stitch we're going to do a prep row so to start that we're going to do a single crochet in the fourth chain from our hook so one two three four skipping three and we're just going to insert our hook into that chain stitch grab the yarn and pull through grab the yarn and pull through two okay then we're gonna chain two and we're gonna single crochet again into that same stitch okay so that's gonna make a shell a really little tiny shell okay then we're going to start our repeat by skipping the next chain stitch and single crochet or doing a shell in the next stitch after that so we'll do a single crochet chain two then we'll single crochet again into that same stitch so we're just going to repeat the shell every other stitch until we reach the last two stitches in the row now when we get to the last two stitches in the row we're going to do a half double crochet in the last stitch so we're going to skip this next chain and do a half double crochet so we'll yarn over insert our hook grab the yarn and pull it through yarn over again and then pull through all three so that brings us to row one we're gonna start by chaining two and this is gonna count as our first half double crochet then we're gonna turn our work and we'll begin our repeat by doing a shell stitch into this - two chain space from the row before so we're gonna insert our hook grab the yarn and pull through yarn over and pull through two okay then we're going to chain two you and then do another single crochet into that same space okay and we're going to continue doing shells into the two chain space all the way across until we reach the last stitch in the row okay once we've done the last shell stitch in the row we're going to do a half double crochet into the turn chain from the row before so there's a little gap right here we're going to yarn over and just insert our hook into that space pull through yarn over and pull through all three so repeat Row 1 until you've reached your desired length and that's how you crochet the petite shell stitch after a few repeats your pattern should look like this while morning's do today check out our website at news to today.com