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This roundup includes more than 15 free filet crochet blanket patterns. Skip straight to the free filet crochet blanket patterns, or learn the difference between a 4 double crochet mesh and a 3 double crochet mesh in my post below.
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How to Filet Crochet
Filet crochet is an easy-to-crochet technique which uses double crochet stitches and chain stitches.
The charts that often accompany filet crochet patterns are very easy to understand because they only contain the 2 types of stitches.
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For a 4 DC Mesh:
- The stitches are often referred to as blocks, the blocks being 4 dc (for a solid section, or closed block) or 1 dc, ch 2, (skip 2), 1 dc, for the open block.
- The only tricky bit, which isn’t really tricky at all, is that blocks share bordered stitches.
- So if you have a solid filled-in block, and then an open block, the solid block represents 4 dc, and the open block represents 1 dc, ch 2 (skip 2), 1 dc.
- It would be worked as 1 dc, 1 dc, 1 dc, 1 dc, ch 2 (sk 2), 1 dc; where the 1 dc is shared between the 2 blocks.
- When you are counting stitches in 4 dc mesh crochet, the number of stitches in a row will always be the number of blocks multiplied by 3, +1. So 6 blocks would be 6 x 3= 18 + 1= 19. This takes into consideration all double crochet (dc) stitches and all chain spaces.
For a 3 DC Mesh:
- The stitches are often referred to as blocks, the blocks being 3 dc (for a solid section, or closed block).
- Just like with the 4 DC Filet Model, the blocks share their bordered stitches.
- So if you have a solid filled-in block, and then an open block, the solid block represents 3 dc, and the open block represents 1 dc, ch 1 (skip 1), 1 dc.
- It would be worked as 1 dc, 1 dc, 1 dc, ch 1 (sk 1), 1 dc; where the 1 dc is shared between the 2 blocks.
- If you have a solid block by itself it is 3 dc. Two solid blocks beside each other it is 5 dc. Three solid blocks beside each other it is 7 dc. The bordered dc in each block is shared.
- When you are counting stitches in 3 dc mesh crochet, the number of stitches in a row will always be the number of blocks multiplied by 2, +1. So 6 blocks would be 6 x 2= 12 + 1= 13. This takes into consideration all double crochet (dc) stitches and all chain spaces.
Reading the Filet Crochet Chart.
For most Filet Crochet patterns you will follow the chart from bottom to the top and you will turn at the end of every row.
Right-handed Crocheters:
- Read the chart from right to left for ODD numbered rows, turn and work the next row from left to right for EVEN numbered rows.
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The opposite is true for left-handed crocheters.
Left-Handed Crocheters:
- You will work your charts from left to right for ODD numberered rows, turn and work the next row from right to left for EVEN numbered rows.
For a indepth explanation of Filet Crochet Basics visit this fantastic post from Crochet Cabana. Or watch her video below.
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Leisure Arts has this fantastic Filet Afghans book available too, for those who are searching for a perfect Filet Crochet graphic for your next blanket. Browse their Filet Afghans here. Or read my full review here.
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