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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
Row 1 (RS) ← 50 sp
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Pattern code · SLPN v1
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