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Free filet crochet pattern
Ampersands
By StitchingLab ·
This 50×50 chart finishes at roughly 13×13 inches in size-10 thread filet mesh, using 2 colors — a clean two-color project — a good first counted chart. Worked in filet, the motif reads through the open mesh — ideal for café curtains and linens. The grid, materials estimate, and written row-by-row instructions below are all free; open the chart in the editor to resize it or swap the palette to yarns you already own.
- Stitch type
- Filet crochet
- Grid
- 50 × 50
- Colors
- 2
Make it fit your project
This chart is 50×50 stitches — about 13×13″ in size-10 thread filet mesh. Pick a project and the motif rescales onto the right canvas (centered, never stretched), ready to fine-tune in the editor.
Chart
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Materials
625g total · 2 colors
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Caron · Simply Soft · Plum Perfect
560 stitches · ~140g · 1 skein
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Bernat · Super Value · White
1,940 stitches · ~485g · 3 skeins
Project kit
Gear this chart actually calls for
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Clover Amour Crochet Hook Set
Comfort-grip hooks in every size a chart can call for — one set covers the whole CYC weight range. — 5.5-6.5 mm (I-9 to K-10½)
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Tapestry Needles
Blunt-tip needles for weaving in the ends every color change leaves behind.
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Locking Stitch Markers
Mark pattern repeats, color-section starts, and the first stitch of the round so a miscount never survives a row.
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Sharp Yarn Snips
Small, sharp snips cut yarn clean at every color change — cleaner joins and easier weaving-in than scissors.
Project reality check
advanced- Strands at once
- 13
- Color changes
- 196
- Ends · intarsia
- 14
- Ends · tapestry
- 4
- Up to 13 strands will be active in a single row — wind one bobbin per strand before you start to avoid tangles.
Written instructions
- spOpen mesh
- blBlock
Before you start
- Open mesh (sp) = dc, ch 2, skip 2; block (bl) = 3 dc plus the shared boundary dc — a row of n cells always totals 3n + 1 dc.
- Foundation: ch 3x(cells) + 3 if Row 1 starts with a block (turning ch-3 counts as first dc), or + 5 if it starts with a space (first dc in 8th ch from hook).
- Turn with ch 3 (counts as dc) before a block, ch 5 (counts as dc + ch 2) before a space.
- 1 RS50 sp
- 2 WS50 sp
- 3 RS50 sp
- 4 WS50 sp
- 5 RS50 sp
- 6 WS50 sp
- 7 RS50 sp
- 8 WS50 sp
- 9 RS50 sp
- 10 WS50 sp
- 11 RS50 sp
- 12 WS50 sp
- 13 RS50 sp
- 14 WS7 sp8 bl4 sp3 bl10 sp8 bl4 sp3 bl3 sp
- 15 RS2 sp5 bl1 sp12 bl7 sp5 bl1 sp12 bl5 sp
- 16 WS4 sp18 bl7 sp18 bl3 sp
- 17 RS4 sp10 bl1 sp6 bl8 sp10 bl1 sp6 bl4 sp
- 18 WS3 sp5 bl6 sp6 bl8 sp5 bl6 sp6 bl5 sp
- 19 RS4 sp8 bl6 sp4 bl7 sp8 bl6 sp4 bl3 sp
- 20 WS2 sp4 bl6 sp9 bl6 sp4 bl6 sp9 bl4 sp
- 21 RS3 sp4 bl2 sp5 bl5 sp4 bl5 sp4 bl2 sp5 bl5 sp4 bl2 sp
- 22 WS2 sp4 bl4 sp5 bl3 sp4 bl5 sp4 bl4 sp5 bl3 sp4 bl3 sp
- 23 RS3 sp3 bl5 sp5 bl3 sp4 bl5 sp3 bl5 sp5 bl3 sp4 bl2 sp
- 24 WS3 sp4 bl1 sp5 bl6 sp4 bl5 sp4 bl1 sp5 bl6 sp4 bl2 sp
Show all 50 rows
- 25 RS2 sp4 bl7 sp9 bl5 sp4 bl7 sp9 bl3 sp
- 26 WS4 sp7 bl8 sp4 bl6 sp7 bl8 sp4 bl2 sp
- 27 RS3 sp2 bl9 sp6 bl8 sp2 bl9 sp6 bl5 sp
- 28 WS6 sp6 bl19 sp6 bl13 sp
- 29 RS11 sp9 bl16 sp9 bl5 sp
- 30 WS5 sp10 bl15 sp10 bl10 sp
- 31 RS9 sp6 bl1 sp4 bl14 sp6 bl1 sp4 bl5 sp
- 32 WS5 sp3 bl4 sp4 bl14 sp3 bl4 sp4 bl9 sp
- 33 RS9 sp4 bl4 sp4 bl13 sp4 bl4 sp4 bl4 sp
- 34 WS4 sp4 bl5 sp3 bl13 sp4 bl5 sp3 bl9 sp
- 35 RS9 sp4 bl4 sp3 bl14 sp4 bl4 sp3 bl5 sp
- 36 WS5 sp5 bl1 sp5 bl14 sp5 bl1 sp5 bl9 sp
- 37 RS10 sp10 bl15 sp10 bl5 sp
- 38 WS6 sp9 bl16 sp9 bl10 sp
- 39 RS12 sp6 bl19 sp6 bl7 sp
- 40 WS50 sp
- 41 RS50 sp
- 42 WS50 sp
- 43 RS50 sp
- 44 WS50 sp
- 45 RS50 sp
- 46 WS50 sp
- 47 RS50 sp
- 48 WS50 sp
- 49 RS50 sp
- 50 WS50 sp
Work the pattern · row tracker
Row tracker
Row 1 of 50 - 2% done
Row 1 (RS) ← 50 sp
Progress saves on this device and in the link above — bookmark it, or paste it into your Ravelry project notes to pick up exactly where you stopped, on any device.
Pattern code · SLPN v1
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