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Free filet crochet pattern
Parking Meter
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
626g total · 2 colors
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Knit Picks · Brava Worsted · Fjord
535 stitches · ~134g · 2 skeins
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Bernat · Super Value · White
1,965 stitches · ~492g · 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
- 9
- Color changes
- 210
- Ends · intarsia
- 10
- Ends · tapestry
- 4
- Up to 9 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 RS24 sp2 bl24 sp
- 4 WS23 sp4 bl23 sp
- 5 RS23 sp4 bl23 sp
- 6 WS23 sp4 bl23 sp
- 7 RS23 sp4 bl23 sp
- 8 WS23 sp4 bl23 sp
- 9 RS23 sp4 bl23 sp
- 10 WS16 sp18 bl16 sp
- 11 RS15 sp20 bl15 sp
- 12 WS14 sp22 bl14 sp
- 13 RS14 sp4 bl14 sp4 bl14 sp
- 14 WS14 sp4 bl14 sp4 bl14 sp
- 15 RS13 sp4 bl16 sp4 bl13 sp
- 16 WS13 sp4 bl16 sp4 bl13 sp
- 17 RS13 sp4 bl16 sp4 bl13 sp
- 18 WS12 sp4 bl6 sp6 bl6 sp4 bl12 sp
- 19 RS12 sp4 bl5 sp8 bl5 sp4 bl12 sp
- 20 WS12 sp4 bl5 sp8 bl5 sp4 bl12 sp
- 21 RS11 sp4 bl7 sp6 bl7 sp4 bl11 sp
- 22 WS11 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl11 sp
- 23 RS11 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl11 sp
- 24 WS10 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl10 sp
Show all 50 rows
- 25 RS10 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl10 sp
- 26 WS10 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl9 sp4 bl10 sp
- 27 RS9 sp4 bl11 sp2 bl11 sp4 bl9 sp
- 28 WS9 sp4 bl24 sp4 bl9 sp
- 29 RS9 sp4 bl24 sp4 bl9 sp
- 30 WS9 sp3 bl6 sp1 bl12 sp1 bl6 sp3 bl9 sp
- 31 RS9 sp3 bl5 sp3 bl10 sp3 bl5 sp3 bl9 sp
- 32 WS9 sp3 bl5 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl5 sp3 bl9 sp
- 33 RS9 sp3 bl5 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl5 sp3 bl9 sp
- 34 WS9 sp3 bl5 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl4 sp4 bl9 sp
- 35 RS9 sp4 bl5 sp4 bl6 sp4 bl5 sp4 bl9 sp
- 36 WS9 sp4 bl5 sp6 bl2 sp6 bl5 sp4 bl9 sp
- 37 RS9 sp4 bl6 sp12 bl6 sp4 bl9 sp
- 38 WS10 sp4 bl6 sp10 bl6 sp4 bl10 sp
- 39 RS10 sp5 bl6 sp8 bl6 sp5 bl10 sp
- 40 WS11 sp4 bl20 sp4 bl11 sp
- 41 RS11 sp5 bl18 sp5 bl11 sp
- 42 WS12 sp5 bl16 sp5 bl12 sp
- 43 RS13 sp6 bl12 sp6 bl13 sp
- 44 WS14 sp8 bl6 sp8 bl14 sp
- 45 RS15 sp20 bl15 sp
- 46 WS17 sp16 bl17 sp
- 47 RS19 sp12 bl19 sp
- 48 WS23 sp4 bl23 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
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