Have you crocheted a filet crochet pattern before? When you search for filet crochet patterns, do you find innovative contemporary designs other than age-old table runners and napkins? Are filet crochet patterns meant only for home décor pieces? In this post you will find all your answers!

What is filet crochet?

Filet crochet is an ancient needle art of making fabric with solid designs against a mesh background. Most filet crochet designs use only the basic stitches like double crochet and chains to form the pattern. Designing starts form a grid chart, where the desired pattern is first pictured for it to be translated into stitches.

Is it that intricate?

Though it looks intricate, filet crochet patterns are among the easiest diagrams to follow and can produce simply stunning results.

To learn the fundamentals of filet crochet, I would highly recommend the eBook, ‘You can Filet Crochet too!’.

Filet crochet is not only the easiest of all the crochet techniques but also the most underutilized of all the other crochet techniques. When using the right kind if yarn, filet crochet patterns create the lightest weight fabric, suitable for wearables in the tropical region.

Let’s talk yarn

Filet crochet produces its best result when a thins cotton yarn is used for its design. Therefore, fingering weight or light fingering weight yarn is used for all designs. It is always best to stay away from fuzzy yarn while making filet crochet patterns.

All the 5 filet crochet patterns use cotton or cotton-blend yarn depending on the type of the items. For instance, the tote and pouch require sturdiness and yarn that does not stretch much. Therefore a 100% cotton yarn was used. For cardigan and shawl a cotton blend yarn was used because the final product needed to be light as well.

Prerequisite knowledge

All patterns designed with filet crochet technique, where every solid block is a 3-dc and open block, dc,ch1,dc. While placing the stitches in the ch1-sp, place them below the chain and not into the chain. To learn the fundamentals of filet crochet technique, read THIS post.

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Every row begins with a chainless double crochet, to have a clean edge. This will not be mentioned in every row in the instruction and is understood that the first dc is a chainless double crochet stitch. For Pomona tote and Arabella Pouch, every row is ended by joining to the first stitch using slip stitch.

Some unique stitches used in the above filet crochet designs to enhance its aesthetics:

• Foundation single crochet 
• Foundation double crochet
• Chainless double crochet
• Foundation cord
• Reverse single crochet or crab stitch

An ode through crochet

This is totally on a side note, but very close to my heart. Filet crochet beyond home décor is my ode through crochet to the unsung female characters in the Happy Potter wizarding world. If you have not noticed yet, all the five filet crochet patterns in named after one of the female characters that played a vital role and deserves more spotlight. This is the Potterhead in me coming out to pay my tribute!

Is that all?

Filet crochet beyond home décor is a continuous venture, where the eBook is going to be updated with new filet crochet patterns as they are released. As of now, there are two more designs in the pipeline, one being the Luna Poncho.

But one thing is for sure, if you get this eBook now, you are going to get new patterns without additional cost of course!

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