Filet crochet tutorial (part 2)

Okay, now that we have the barest basics from Lesson 1, we are going to move on to a slightly larger project.

(Yes, I just made that really quickly with MS Paint and "graph paper" And you can too with the graph paper image I posted below.)

Now, this is 9x10 square filet. Which, multiplied by 3 stitches means the chain row is 10x3 +5 = 35 chains to start.

By following the chart, you get something akin to this:




(Sorry for the fuzzy cell phone picture.)









More advanced charts can be found at a place like this, here or here. This is also a pretty good source for crochet alphabet charts.

Also, groups like Craftster and Ravelry are great resources for tutorials, patterns and support!

Resources:

Alphabets-
http://www.needlework.com/xstitch1pats/html/fancy_alphabet.html
http://www.needlework.com/xstitch1pats/html/old_english_alphabet.html
http://www.allfreecrafts.com/needlework/block-alphabet.shtml

Other Charts:
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/filet_crochet.php
(I got the graph paper from this website.)



I hope this helps get you started with filet crochet!!!