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Free filet crochet pattern
Message Square Dot
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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Lion Brand · Vanna's Choice · Navy
536 stitches · ~134g · 2 skeins
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Bernat · Super Value · White
1,964 stitches · ~491g · 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
intermediate- Strands at once
- 7
- Color changes
- 166
- Ends · intarsia
- 8
- Ends · tapestry
- 4
- Up to 7 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 RS43 sp1 bl6 sp
- 6 WS5 sp3 bl42 sp
- 7 RS41 sp5 bl4 sp
- 8 WS4 sp6 bl40 sp
- 9 RS39 sp7 bl4 sp
- 10 WS4 sp8 bl38 sp
- 11 RS37 sp9 bl4 sp
- 12 WS4 sp4 bl1 sp5 bl36 sp
- 13 RS35 sp5 bl2 sp4 bl4 sp
- 14 WS4 sp4 bl3 sp31 bl8 sp
- 15 RS6 sp32 bl4 sp4 bl4 sp
- 16 WS4 sp4 bl5 sp32 bl5 sp
- 17 RS5 sp5 bl32 sp4 bl4 sp
- 18 WS4 sp4 bl33 sp4 bl5 sp
- 19 RS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
- 20 WS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
- 21 RS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
- 22 WS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
- 23 RS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
- 24 WS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
Show all 50 rows
- 25 RS4 sp4 bl34 sp4 bl4 sp
- 26 WS4 sp4 bl34 sp3 bl5 sp
- 27 RS42 sp4 bl4 sp
- 28 WS4 sp4 bl42 sp
- 29 RS42 sp4 bl4 sp
- 30 WS4 sp4 bl28 sp3 bl11 sp
- 31 RS8 sp9 bl25 sp4 bl4 sp
- 32 WS4 sp4 bl24 sp11 bl7 sp
- 33 RS6 sp13 bl23 sp4 bl4 sp
- 34 WS4 sp4 bl22 sp6 bl3 sp6 bl5 sp
- 35 RS5 sp4 bl7 sp4 bl22 sp4 bl4 sp
- 36 WS4 sp4 bl22 sp4 bl7 sp4 bl5 sp
- 37 RS4 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl21 sp4 bl4 sp
- 38 WS4 sp4 bl21 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl4 sp
- 39 RS4 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl21 sp4 bl4 sp
- 40 WS4 sp4 bl22 sp4 bl7 sp4 bl5 sp
- 41 RS5 sp4 bl7 sp4 bl22 sp4 bl4 sp
- 42 WS5 sp4 bl21 sp6 bl3 sp6 bl5 sp
- 43 RS6 sp13 bl5 sp21 bl5 sp
- 44 WS6 sp20 bl6 sp11 bl7 sp
- 45 RS8 sp9 bl7 sp19 bl7 sp
- 46 WS9 sp16 bl11 sp3 bl11 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
A canonical, lossless representation of this pattern. Paste it into any StitchingLab converter to reload, or share it as a single line of text.
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