Square created for the 2014 Knit and Crochet Show Yarn Bombing in Manchester, NH, July 2014. Squares are to be displayed yarn-bomb style (with approval) at the conference hotel during the conference.

7.5 mm black eyes from 6060 eyes.

Modifications to pattern:
Omitted shell bottom. Did ‘joining’ round of shell in front loops of shell top.
Flippers: Made flippers as single layer instead of in the round by cutting round instructions ~in half and working back and forth… did very tight ch in magic ring, omitted starting chains at beginnings of rows, just pulled up a loop to make sc. Remember to reverse the increases/decreases on alternate rows! Omitted the color change rows.

Assembly: Attached head and flippers to underside of shell. Attached body to square using unused loops under shell using the ‘sand’ color (to keep the back neat). Added a bit of stuffing btwn the shell and the square… being careful to balance puffing up the shell enough w/o bulging too much under the square. Tacked down the flippers gently using the ‘sand’ color… a bit of peek-thru of stitches on them is no biggie as you know how sand gets on everything!

Square:
Row 1: 34 fsc in buff to start square, ch 1, turn (ch does not count as st).
Rows 2 - 22: sc in ea sc across in buff (34 sc ea row).
Row 23 (front): 32 sc in buff, switch to blue for last 2 sc.
Row 24: 1st 3 sc blue, 31 buff
Row 25: 30 buff, 4 blue
Row 26: 4 blue, 30 buff
Row 27: 29 buff, 5 blue
Row 28: 7 blue, 27 buff
Row 29: 23 buff, 11 blue (7, 2 blo, 2)
Row 30: 17 blue (4, 2 flo, 11), 17 buff
Row 31: 16 buff, 18 blue (8, 4 blo, 6)
Row 32: 20 blue (10, 2 flo, 8), 11 buff (carry blue), 3 blue
Row 33: 5 blue, 6 buff, 23 blue (10, 1 blo, 12)
Row 34: 24 blue, 3 buff, 7 blue
Row 35: all blue
Row 36: all blue (16, 3 blo, 11, 2 blo, 2)
Row 37: 4, 3 flo, 11, 3 flo, 7, 2 flo, 4
Row 38: 3, 1 blo, 7, 3 blo, 9, 3 blo, 7
Row 39: 10, 4 flo, 9, 4 flo, 4, 2 flo, 1
Row 40: 34 hdc

Waves are sl sts made in the open loops, with front facing the sand.

Shell fragment:
1: 3 sc in magic ring
2: 2 sc in each (6)
3: 2 sc, 1 sc across (9)
4: sc in next 2, 2 sc in next, sc in next 3, 2 sc in next, sc in next 2 (11)
5: sc in each sc across (11)
6: 2 sc in 1st, sc in next 4, 2 sc in next, sc in next 4, 2 sc in last (14)
7: sc in 1st 4, 2 sc in next, sc in next 4, 2 sc in next, sc in next 4 (16)
8: standing dc, hdc, sc in next 2, hdc, dc, (dc, hdc) in next, sc in next 3, hdc, dc, (dc, hdc) in next, sc in remaining.