at a crochet the shells and arches stitch for this stitch you will need a crochet hook and a ball of yarn special thanks to our sponsor webs for providing today's young today we are using their Northampton yarn from their Valley yarns line in the color Dahlia for this stitch you'll need to know the following techniques chain stitch single crochet double crochet to begin this stitch you must create a foundation chain in multiples of 12 plus 4 Row one beginning on the right side of our work we are going to do two double crochets into the third chain from our hook one two three okay that's one and two all right now we're going to start our repeat by skipping the next two chains then we'll do one single crochet into the next chain then we're going to chain five and we will skip the next five chains so we've got one two three four five then we'll do a another single crochet into the next chain and we will skip the next two chains and do five double crochets into the next chain so this is going to count as our shell stitch and this chain here is our arch so let's probably get the shells and arches so we'll do five double crochets into this same stitch here that's three and five all right so we're going to repeat this sequence all the way until we get to the last three our last stitch in our row all right we get to the end of our row instead of finishing our repeat with the shell using five double crochets we're just going to do three double crochets into the last chain stitch okay then we'll turn our work wrote to we're going to begin by chaining one then we're going to do a single crochet into the first stitch that's this one right here right below the chain that we made then we're going to start our repeat by chaining five and we will do a single crochet into the next five chain space here then we're going to chain 5 again then we will do another single crochet into the third double crochet of our shell so we've got 1 2 3 right into the center and do the single crochet all right and we're going to repeat this sequence all the way across to the end of the row all right when we come to the end of our row we're going to do a single crochet into the top chain from our turn chain and then we'll turn our work ro3 we're going to begin by chaining five and this is going to count as a double crochet and a chain two they're going to start our repeat by doing a single crochet into the next five chain space then we are going to do five double crochets into the next single crochet so that's this right here okay we got four and five okay next we are going to do a single crochet into the next five chain loop right here then we're going to do a chain five and we'll start our repeat again so we'll repeat this sequence until we get to the end of the row all right so we're going to end our repeat after the five double crochets with a single crochet into the next five chain space then we'll chain two and do a double crochet into the turn chain from the row before okay then we'll turn our work ro4 we're going to begin by chaining one then we will do a single crochet into the first double crochet that's the first stitch right below our chain next we are going to start our repeat by chaining five then we're going to do a single crochet into the third chain of our double crochet fan or shale shell now we'll chain five again and we'll do a single crochet into the next five chain space okay we're going to repeat this sequence until we get to the end of the row so we're going to finish up our row by doing a single crochet into the third chain one two three of the turn chain from the row before alright then we can turn our work ro5 we're going to begin by chaining three this is going to count as a double crochet now we're going to do two double crochets into the first single crochet here this stitch right below the chain that we made now we're going to start our repeat by doing a single crochet into the next five chain space or loop this one right here and we will then chain five and we will do another single crochet into the next five chain loop then we are going to do five double crochets into the next single crochet that's this one right here you all right that's three four and five alright so we now are going to repeat this sequence until we reach the end of the row and to finish up this row we are going to do three double crochets into the turn chain instead of the five that we would normally do for the shell all right so we can then turn our work and we're going to repeat rows 2 through 5 until we've reached our desired length and that's how you crochet these shells and arches stitch what more needs to today check out our website and use 2 today calm