At first you knit the snail, then you felt it in the washing machine:

Knit flat, afterwards you form the snail by 3-needle bind-off and decreases.

In keeping with the name “StrickStrand” of my studio, here are the instructions for Sea snails: Turitella and Whelk. I collected shells and snails on the german island Amrum and made knitting samples in their colors until I had a whelk in my hands. I also came up with a cockle, but you’ll have to wait a while for the instructions for it. The snails are described in three sizes S M, L:

S Worsted from malabrigo

M Felt wool from different manufacturers

L Bulky light print from Rosários4 (you need approx. 54g/18g per color, so you get a lot of snails from one ball of each color)

What else do you need? Needles! You need a circular needle size 4.5 7, 10 and 3 loose needles of the same size, a thinner circular needle for the snail spiral, a thicker crochet hook

Techniques: Crochet stitches on (as a cast-on) Shortened rows 3-needle bind-off. You can also get these instructions without wool! Why?
Snails knitted by you have already been allowed to travel all over the world as part of my “snail INTERNATIONAL” competition. They have already been to Newfoundland, Antarctica, Easter Island, Fuerteventura… if you send me photos of your snails that I can publish, the following applies: I will donate one euro for each photo to the Arista hospice here in Karlsruhe, Germany