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Filet crochet is an easy technique that can have stunning results.
Filet crochet patterns are made up of open meshes and solid meshes with patterns that depict this (so the patterns are crochet charts, not written instructions).
The mesh is made using double crochet stitches (the solid blocks) separated by spaces (the open blocks). The blocks can be made using 3dc or 4 dc stitches, depending on the version of filet crochet that you're working. This guide explains both but shows specifically how to work with 4 dc filet crochet, since this is the more common of the two methods.
The first thing that you must understand about filet crochet is that you won't have any written instructions for these patterns. You also won't have symbol charts. Instead, you will have grids; the grids will consist of 'open' spaces and 'solid' spaces.
You use double crochet stitches to create your solid spaces and add chains over skipped stitches to create the open boxes.
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Some patterns use 4 dc to form a block (solid mesh), while other patterns use 3 dc to form a block (solid mesh).
3 DC filet explained: In a pattern that uses 3 double crochet (dc) to form each block (solid mesh), each block consists of 3 dc. When there are two blocks side by side, the blocks share a common dc in the center, so there will be 5 dc in that group of two blocks. Three blocks side by side = 7 dc.
4 DC filet explained: In a pattern that uses 4 double crochet (dc) to form each block (solid mesh), each block consists of 4 dc. When there are two blocks side by side, the blocks share a common dc in the center, so there will be 7 dc in that group of two blocks. Three blocks side by side = 10 dc.
If you are confused, take a moment to look at the graph charts for filet crochet. Each row consists of blocks. Each block is either open or solid. You use double crochet stitches to fill in a solid block. You use three dc stitches or 4 dc stitches, as explained above. Each block shares a solid line with the block next to it so that the last stitch of the first block is the first stitch of the next block. That's why two 4dc blocks next to each will not have 8 dc but instead will have 7 dc because block 1 consists of dc stitches 1-4 and block 2 consists of dc stitches 4-7. They each have four dc stitches but they share the middle one.
Solid Squares in Filet Crochet
On a chart, the X or completely filled in block equals a solid mesh. The symbol shows what this solid mesh would look like on a stitch symbols diagram. To make a solid mesh: dc in next 3 dc or 2 dc in next chain space, dc in next dc.
Note: Some stitch keys will call this a block instead of a solid mesh.
The Beginning Solid Mesh (Beginning Block) is made by: ch 3 (counts as dc), 2 dc in first chain space, dc in next dc or dc in next 3 dc.
Note that many (but not all) filet crochet patterns will begin and end with an entire row of double crochet stitches because this gives a nice frame to the pattern.
On a chart, the blank square equals an open mesh. The symbol shows what this open mesh would look like on a stitch symbols diagram. To make an open mesh: ch2, skip next 2 chains, dc in next dc or skip next 2 dc, dc in next dc.
Note: Some stitch keys will call this a space instead of a mesh.
The Beginning Open Mesh (Beginning Space) is made by: ch 5, skip next 2 stitches, dc in next dc.
Youtube Crochet Videos for Beginners
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