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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 · tap the chart to pin the exact stitch you’re on
Row 1 (RS) ← 50 sp
Progress saves on this device and in the link above — down to the exact stitch when you’ve pinned one. Bookmark the link, or paste it into your Ravelry project notes to pick up precisely 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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