Praise Him, Our Lord and Savior, Helix Fossil

As predicted, keeping up with a blog proved too difficult for me last year. So I'm going to try again! I have been crocheting a ton lately, with lots of commissions and while I have them tucked away in my handy dandy notebook, I really should try to get some of this down online.

Today was a sick day for me, and because I could do little else, I watched Twitch Plays Pokemon a fair amount. I love this experiment and the things that have come out of it so I wanted to make something my friends (who know far more about it than I) would appreciate. And clearly the Helix Fossil was my first choice.

While technically this is Omanyte (resurrected from the Helix Fossil) I couldn't resist.

Such a cute squishy god!

So I am fairly new to the world of making my own patterns, and completely new to the world of typing them into something other than my scribbles in a notebook. So let me know if you have any questions, and here you go!  

  

Hooks Used: 4 mm and 2.7 mm

Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver in Beige, tealish blue, white, black

Stitches: Magic ring (MR), single crochet (sc), increase (inc), decrease (dec)

Feel free to sell, give away, or hoard whatever you make from this pattern, just please don't claim the pattern as your own or copy it anywhere without directing back here. Pokemon is property of Nintendo. 

Shell with beige- with 4mm hook

1. 6 sc in MR

2. (inc) 6x (12)

3. (sc, inc) 6x (18)

4-?? 18 sc around until shell is around 14” or long enough to roll up. Very lightly stuffing as you go.

– (sc, sc, inc) 6x (24)

– (sc, sc, sc, inc) 6x (30)

F/O leaving a long tail for sewing. 

Begin to roll the shell up sewing it together every inch or two until it is a nice spiral. 

Body –  With blue- With 4 mm hook

1. 6 sc MR

2. inc 6x (12)

3. (sc, inc) 6x(18)

4. sc around (18)

5. sc around (18)

I found it easier to just sew the body into the opening of the shell at this point before continuing around. 

6. (sc, sc, inc) x6 (24)

7. dec x12 (12)     Stuff

8. dec x6 (6)

F/O sew opening closed

Legs (Make 9) with blue- With 2.7mm hook

1. MR 3

2. 3 sc

3. 3 sc

Cut and pull yarn through

Thread end back up through leg, keeping ends pointy-  tying two ends together then sewing onto the body from that side. 

Arms (Make 2) With blue- with 2.7 mm hook

1. MR 4

2. 4 sc

3. 4 sc

4. dec, 3 sc

F/o sew to sides of body

Eyes (Make 2) With white – 4 mm hook AND with black with 2.7mm hook

MR 5, sltch to join. Sew together, Sew onto body. 

Hooray!