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Free filet crochet pattern
Rat
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
901g total · 2 colors
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Bernat · Blanket · Dark Grey
661 stitches · ~441g · 2 skeins
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Bernat · Super Value · White
1,839 stitches · ~460g · 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. — 9-15 mm (M-13 to Q)
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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
- 184
- Ends · intarsia
- 8
- 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 RS22 sp21 bl7 sp
- 4 WS5 sp24 bl21 sp
- 5 RS21 sp25 bl4 sp
- 6 WS3 sp25 bl22 sp
- 7 RS43 sp4 bl3 sp
- 8 WS2 sp4 bl44 sp
- 9 RS44 sp4 bl2 sp
- 10 WS2 sp4 bl44 sp
- 11 RS22 sp1 bl10 sp2 bl7 sp5 bl3 sp
- 12 WS3 sp32 bl15 sp
- 13 RS15 sp31 bl4 sp
- 14 WS5 sp30 bl15 sp
- 15 RS19 sp5 bl9 sp9 bl8 sp
- 16 WS8 sp5 bl14 sp4 bl19 sp
- 17 RS19 sp4 bl15 sp5 bl7 sp
- 18 WS7 sp4 bl16 sp4 bl19 sp
- 19 RS19 sp4 bl16 sp4 bl7 sp
- 20 WS7 sp3 bl16 sp6 bl18 sp
- 21 RS5 sp6 bl6 sp8 bl15 sp3 bl7 sp
- 22 WS7 sp3 bl12 sp24 bl4 sp
- 23 RS3 sp17 bl2 sp7 bl11 sp3 bl7 sp
- 24 WS7 sp3 bl11 sp6 bl4 sp16 bl3 sp
Show all 50 rows
- 25 RS3 sp3 bl6 sp5 bl8 sp3 bl11 sp4 bl7 sp
- 26 WS7 sp4 bl32 sp4 bl3 sp
- 27 RS3 sp4 bl31 sp4 bl8 sp
- 28 WS8 sp4 bl30 sp5 bl3 sp
- 29 RS4 sp4 bl29 sp5 bl8 sp
- 30 WS9 sp5 bl19 sp1 bl7 sp4 bl5 sp
- 31 RS5 sp4 bl6 sp3 bl17 sp5 bl10 sp
- 32 WS10 sp6 bl16 sp3 bl5 sp5 bl5 sp
- 33 RS4 sp6 bl5 sp3 bl14 sp7 bl11 sp
- 34 WS12 sp10 bl19 sp5 bl4 sp
- 35 RS3 sp5 bl16 sp12 bl14 sp
- 36 WS16 sp10 bl17 sp4 bl3 sp
- 37 RS3 sp3 bl18 sp8 bl18 sp
- 38 WS21 sp4 bl19 sp3 bl3 sp
- 39 RS3 sp3 bl7 sp3 bl9 sp4 bl21 sp
- 40 WS21 sp4 bl9 sp3 bl6 sp4 bl3 sp
- 41 RS3 sp4 bl6 sp4 bl8 sp4 bl21 sp
- 42 WS21 sp4 bl8 sp5 bl3 sp5 bl4 sp
- 43 RS4 sp14 bl6 sp4 bl22 sp
- 44 WS22 sp5 bl4 sp14 bl5 sp
- 45 RS6 sp21 bl23 sp
- 46 WS24 sp11 bl3 sp3 bl9 sp
- 47 RS17 sp8 bl25 sp
- 48 WS27 sp4 bl19 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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