Simple Geode
Skill Level
Advanced Beginner
Materials
Size 4 Yarn for shells (gray and color to match beads, use your scraps)
Size 10 crochet thread for adding beads (neutral or color to match beads, just a bit)
6 mm Faceted beads (a few handfuls)
Hooks, Size F (3.75 mm) and C (2.75 mm)
Techniques
Magic Ring
Increasing in the round
Surface crochet
Beadwork
Abbreviations
MR – Magic Ring Yarn
SC – Single Crochet
INC – Increase (2 SC in same stitch)
ST(s) – Stitch(es)
FO – Fasten Off Cut the yarn.
REP – Repeat
RND – Round
SURF SS – Surface Slip Stitch Crochet
BEAD SS – Beaded Slip Stitch
CCW – Counterclockwise
YO – Yarn Over Wrap it.
Outer Shell
Gray yarn (or other rock color), Size 4
Size F (3.75mm) hook
RND 1: SC 6 into MR (6 sts )
RND 2: INC in each st around (12 sts)
RND 3: (1 SC, INC) REP around (18 sts)
RND 4: (2 SC, INC) REP around (24 sts)
RND 5: (3 SC, INC) REP around (30 sts)
RND 6: (4 SC, INC) REP around (36 sts)
RND 7: (5 SC, INC) REP around (42 sts)
RND 8: SC in each st around (42 sts)
RNDs 9–14: REP RND 8
Do not FO
Inner Shell
Beige yarn or matching bead color, Size 4
Size F (3.75mm) hook
RND 1: SC 6 into MR
RND 2: INC in each st around (12 sts)
RND 3: (1 SC, INC) REP around (18 sts)
RND 4: (2 SC, INC) REP around (24 sts)
RND 5: (3 SC, INC) REP around (30 sts)
RND 6: (4 SC, INC) REP around (36 sts)
RND 7: SC in each st around (36 sts)
RNDs 8–11: REP RND 7
FO
Beaded Center
String a few dozen faceted beads onto size 10 crochet thread( I used a big eye needle)
2.75 mm hook
Begin at the center the inner shell.
Using SURF SS, crochet in a CCW spiral, sliding one bead per stitch and completing a BEAD SS each time.
Create a slip knot with the crochet thread. Insert the 2.75 hook into the back of the center of the inner shell.
Grab the slip knot loop and pull it through the hole.
Then insert the hook into a hole to the left, slide down a bead past the hook, yarn over, pull the loop through the hole and through the loop on the hook.
**Insert the hook into a hole to the left of the current hole, slide a bead down past the hook, yarn over and pulled through the hole and through the loop on the hook**.
Repeat **to ** until you run out of beads.
String more beads.
*Then create a new slip knot, insert hook into next hole to the left, slide down a bead past the hook, yarn over and pull through the hole and through the loop on the hook. Repeat ** to ** until you run out of beads. *.
Repeat *to* until the inside of the inner shell is full of beads.
Weave in all ends.
Assembly
Set inner shell into outer shell. Join the last row of each shell using a slip stitch, catching the back loops of the outer shell and front loop of the inner shell. FO. Weave in ends.
