How to Filet Crochet | 3 Methods + Troubleshooting | Crochet Friday
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Today's Crochet Friday is a crash course for Filet Crochet! Filet crochet is a beautiful method to create pictures and text in crochet projects. The basic idea is we work a mesh and then fill in spaces with stitches to create the picture. This video covers the concept of Filet Crochet, teaches the basic method, and then shows 2 additional variations to troubleshoot if your projects don't turn out to scale. I don't mention this in the video, but blocking works great for filet crochet (how to block: • How and Why to Block C... )
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0:05 - introducing Filet Crochet
2:53 - materials
4:00 - method 1: double crochet
11:14 - method 2: treble crochet
15:55 - method 3: extended double crochet
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Hi, I found this video very halpful so thank you. I just wanted to explain what the thread numers mean and why they are so confusing.
It is actually very simple, the number represents how many meters of thread weigh 1 gramm. So thread number 10 means that 10 meters weigh 1 gramm. That is why the bigger the number the thinner the thread because you'll need more of it to weigh the same. I hope that's cleared things up for everyone ^^.
Thank you so much for sharing!!! That makes so much sense now!
Thank you for taking the time to explain this.
Just what I needed to see. At first I was intimidated; now I’m confident I can do just about any filet pattern.
You've got this!
Best tutorial on this I've found. Thank you for not overthinking or overexplaining. Other tutorials I've seen have gotten me so confused I gave up. With yours I feel ready to try.
So glad this was helpful. You've got this!
Thank you so much for your explanations of the different stitches that can be used to do filet crochet! Very thorough! I understand it now!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for the great camera shorts. You make it look so easy . Will be looking for more of your videos.
Glad you enjoyed! It's so fun creating designs with filet crochet.
You are a very good teacher! Thank you for explaining how to do this.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for making this tutorial!! It was so helpful for getting started, and I love the different methods that you provided. It was so easy to understand and follow along. You're amazing! Keep up the good work! ❤️🙏🏻😊
So glad this was helpful! Thanks for watching.
I’ve been wanting to try this for a long time, thank you for the clear and thorough tutorial!
You're very welcome! It's a lot of fun, and there's so many beautiful designs. I hope your project goes well for you!
Crafters Autonomous Thanks!
Thank you SO much for this tutorial, at first when i tried to tackle filet crochet i completely messed up, but i looked at this video and now realize its SO simple. I'm working on a filet crochet lace yoke now, thank you!!!
Filet crochet is one of those areas where it's simple but not necessarily easy! Simple: just open and closed blocks. Not necessarily easy: can take a little bit of playing around to get the blocks nice and even. I'm so glad this tutorial gave you the confidence to tackle filet crochet. Sounds like a lovely project!
This was really clear, thank you.
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching!
Hi just found your video. I love your video. It really made sense to me lol. Great job.
Super clear! Thank you!
Glad it helped!
Loved it. Thank you so much 💕
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thanks , this is easy to understand 💖
Awesome!
Thanks so much I want to do a project like that for all my grandchildren. ❤❤❤
I've never filet crochet it looks really interesting thank you for showing us how to do it great job
It's a lot of fun to create projects with this technique! Glad you enjoyed the video.
really clear thanks
Very helpful. Happy belated birthday to your Grammy!
Glad this video helped!
Thank you for yoy detailed video. Soon, I will give it a try.
So glad you enjoyed the video! I hope you have fun with filet crochet.
Wow, thanks for the very clear demo❤️ i'll try it☺️ i will surely subscribe to you👍
Thank you ❤️
Always glad to share tutorials! Thanks for watching!
I love this crochet with cotton Thread. ❤😊
Thanks for how you teach. Very very nice.👍😀❤
So glad you enjoyed this video! And thank you for your kind words. ☺️
Need to learn name file chrochting last names and framing for this coming Christmas . I do know how to crochet a plus for me .
I have watched so many videos over the years and could never get filet crochet!! Watching your video, now im able to do it! You make it so easy to understand!!! Thank you so so much!!!
That's so awesome! Do you have a particular filet crochet project you are going to start? It's such a fun technique!
@@CraftersAutonomous I do im trying a basic image of Jesus. I hate to say it but I've gotten the count wrong twice already. So I frog it and try again lol. For some reason the easy stuff is very hard for me and the difficult stuff is a breeze, crazy I know Lol. Your video is awesome and I can't thank you enough. Now I just need to figure out a sure fire way to know at the beginning how many chains I need so I don't have to keep frogging the first row, I never get past half of the first row without frogging it ! It's very frustrating but I don't give up.
@@christyhamm5489 That sounds like a neat project! I completely understand the frustration of starting a filet crochet project. I usually have to frog several times after the first row too! When it's so many chains like that, it's way too easy to be off by just a few. But eventually, I always get it. I'm sure you will too!
You explain everything so easy. I followed your tutorial and made the heart. Thank you. My only challenge is doing the letters on the graph paper. I’m struggling to fill in the blocks. Do you have other tutorials for the graph sheet?
If you do an internet search for "graph letters", it should pop up with a bunch of different alphabet "fonts" on a graph! For instance, I found these letter designs on the Crochet Kim website - crochetkim.com/alphabet-graphs/
You can also try a search that includes the word crochet to find letter graphs that work well for crochet. Something like "crochet graph letters" or "filet crochet letter graphs" will pull up a number of options. Hope this helps!
I want to reproduce a filet crochet valance that is uneven at the bottom--sort of scalloped. I can't figure it out. Can you help me?
On topic: I can't wait to try this! Off topic: have you ever tried Tatting lace? I shuttle tatt. It's basically one stitch in a chain or a ring.
I've never tried tatting, but I think it's so beautiful! One of these days I'll have to watch some tutorials here on UA-cam and give it a try 😄
@@CraftersAutonomous I learned thru UA-cam videos. Shuttle tatting is easier for me than the needle (I think it's because I crochet). When you're ready to learn check out Noo Bear on UA-cam. Excellent channel for tatting.
@@sarah8900 Thanks for the recommendations!
My great gramma tatted when i was very young. About 48 years ago. She had all kinds of lace doily things she made laying all over her end tables. I looked it up on UA-cam a couple years ago to see if anyone still did it. Yes i found some videos. I will check out the channel you suggested.
This was so helpful! Do you happen to have a good edging pattern to put on a finished filet crochet block?
Glad the video helped! I don't have an edging specific to filet crochet, but I do have this edging I put on a cross stitch that would probably look great on a filet crochet project - ua-cam.com/video/teZTsnUvB50/v-deo.html
You may need to adjust spacing since you'd be working into stitches vs into cross stitch fabric. If you need any help, drop another comment and I'll do my best to help!
Lovely pattern. Thank you. You explain very well. Would it be possible to get the pattern to this Bless our Home?
The Bless Our Home pattern is not my own design, so I can't share the instructions. The pattern is from a 1994 booklet called "Say It in Filet: 6 thread crochet designs" written by Betty Phipps and published by American School of Needlework. When I searched online for this booklet, I couldn't find a current seller/ebook version, but I did find this Amazon listing selling used versions of the booklet - amzn.to/3f2ZBY6
Hope this helps!
Hi Try double crocheting in to the dcon each space. If you do you may find that you will have squares squares rather than rectangles. If you look at your great grandmother's piece carefullt with a magnifying glass you will see that she has dc in each dc in the space.
What the heck did you just say. Were you trying to say that the squares will be more square if you double crochet into each double crochet? What does dcon mean?
This is a great video. I will give this a try. Also, where can I find the background music?
Hope filet crochet goes well for you! As far as the background music, the track is Distant Love by Causmic. The track is available as a free download from the UA-cam Audio library, and you can find this track on Causmic's channel here: ua-cam.com/video/ZAmBiHpqEFA/v-deo.html
Thank you so much that's the only way I can learn by watching somebody cuz I do not read patterns
Glad to hear the video was helpful!
idk whats up with my tension because only triple crochet looks good but thank you for this tutorial i tried all these techniques :))
So glad it helped! I was in the same boat - could not get it to look right when I did the traditional double crochet style.
Did you ever do a video on negative fillet crochet? I’m wanting to do something similar to this, but inverted.
I don't have a video specific to that, but the technique is essentially the same as is shown in this video! When you say negative filet crochet and wanted it to be inverted, I'm assuming you mean swapping the open and closed blocks? Which means the picture would be visible in the open blocks, while the filled in blocks would be the negative space of the image?
If that's what you are meaning, the method is essentially the same. If you want the negative of a graph, you could start by inverting the graph to make it easier to follow along. Then work the filled in blocks the way shown in this video and the open blocks the way shown in this video. The main difference is the first row would likely be all filled in blocks. So in that case, work a dc in each of the chain spaces between the "borders" of the blocks, instead of working a ch 2 and skipping those 2 foundation chains.
If this isn't what you were meaning, let me know and I'll see if I've got any other resources for ya!
Where can I get that pattern you show it’s beautiful or can you show a tutorial you showing it
My great-grandmother crocheted the "Bless Our Home" sign using a pattern from a booklet, but luckily she sent me the booklet a few years back so I have the information for it!
The pattern is from a 1994 booklet called "Say It in Filet: 6 thread crochet designs" written by Betty Phipps and published by American School of Needlework. When I searched online for this booklet, I couldn't find a current seller/ebook version, but I did find this Amazon listing selling used versions of the booklet - amzn.to/3f2ZBY6
While that listing has mixed reviews (one buyer wasn't happy with the condition it arrived in), it does show the correct product. I also looked on Ebay, but didn't find anybody selling it there; but it might be worth checking there from time to time in case someone lists a copy.
If this weren't a copyrighted pattern, I would have been glad to share it with you! One last idea if you can't find the booklet: fill in blocks on graph paper with the phrase and hearts, and use that as your guide. It might not be an exact match, but it would give a close approximation to the one in the video. To make it even easier, you could also Google "filet crochet letter graphs" to find graphs for the letters themselves. And if you wanted to add a border, you can search for filet crochet borders here on UA-cam. Hope this helps!
Crafters Autonomous thank you so much for the information 😉
On the Bless Our Home piece, how do you crochet the lacy border?
I'm not sure what pattern my grammy used to crochet the border. I do have a tutorial for a border I added to a cross stitch. While it's not quite the same, it has a similar style to it so you might be interested in that - ua-cam.com/video/teZTsnUvB50/v-deo.html Thanks for watching!
Love your tutorial can you it on God bless our home 😊
So the God Bless Our Home design is not my own, it's from a pattern booklet my Great Grandmother passed down to me. I can't duplicate patterns that are not my own unfortunately.
Hello, could you please tell me how is this "Bless our home" work crocheted around? It looks very good and I would love to line my work the same way.
The "bless our home" project is something my great grandmother crocheted using a now-vintage pattern. I don't think they're still printing and selling new copies of the booklet, but there's probably second-hand copies of the booklet for sale online. I don't know the name of the booklet off the top of my head, but when I get the chance I can let you know the title and I'll see if I can find it anywhere online.
@@CraftersAutonomous thank you for the answer. I didn't necessarily mean the whole pattern, I would just really love to know what is going on around the borders.
Sorry it's taken me so long, but I finally found the booklet with the edging pattern! It's called "Say It in Filet: 6 thread crochet designs" by Betty Phipps. The edging comes from the first design in the booklet. It's not in print any more, but I found a copy on Ebay - www.ebay.com/itm/154945903934?hash=item24137edd3e:g:NrEAAOSwPU5iOSHG
If it were my own design for the edging, I'd be happy to share. But since it's someone else's design, I'm not able to reproduce the pattern.
I started filet crochet 2 days ago and the dc stitches of my filled-in blocks look very spaced apart, specifically the single blocks. This makes the pattern not appear as clean as I'd like. Is this a tension issue? (Idk where else to ask and I learned all the basics from your video. Great tutorial btw)
There's a number of things that could be going on.
1. It could be a tension issue. Some troubleshooting ideas would be dropping down a hook size, opting for normal dc or trying the extended dc, or using a different size crochet thread.
2. The project might just need to be blocked. I don't block most of my projects (mainly because I'm lazy haha), but crochet thread projects are really great candidates for blocking. It helps really define the pattern and make everything sit in the correct places. This can stretch the stitches out a little bit, but I tend to find that even shape that's a little bit looser looks better than uneven shape that's tighter. Here's some info on blocking crochet projects if you are interested - ua-cam.com/video/PIiWeRVDCmQ/v-deo.html
3. Filet crochet looks better from a distance. When we look at it up close, we tend to see the details of the stitches versus the overall image. Also, due to the nature of cameras and focal points, filet crochet can look "cleaner" in pictures or videos than it does in person. So it might just be that images of other people's crochet filet projects look more crisp simply because you are not seeing them in person.
With all that said, I would do some experimenting with number 1 above. Then from there, I would try blocking. Lastly, sometimes it just is a matter of practice! My tension used to be very inconsistent when I worked with crochet thread, but now that I've spent years practicing I can get consistent results. Hope this helps! Thanks so much for watching and reaching out.
Do you work into the bottom or top of the chain stitch.
I work around the chain space. So I'm not inserting the hook through the loop of the chain space but I'm going in the space underneath the chain, which works the stitch around the chain.
@@CraftersAutonomous thank you 😊
Heyyyy it’s me again 😂 how do I start a pattern with 5 filled in blocks?
Always glad to have you here!
To answer your question, I'll give a little review of how the filet blocks are made. There's open blocks and closed blocks. Open blocks have a double crochet making the left and right sides of the block, and then we chain 2 in between them to create the hollow for the block. If it's a filled in block, we work 2 dc in the space between the double crochets that make the left and right side of the block. And the left side of one block, is the right side of the next block, etc.
So with that in mind, here's how we would work 5 filled in blocks at the start of the project. The first two or three (depends on your tension and preference) chains will count as our first double crochet stitch and the right side of our first block. To make our first filled in block, we will work a double crochet in each of the next 2 chain stitches to fill in the middle of the block, and then work a double crochet in the next chain to create the left side of the block (this also makes the right hand side of our next block). For our second filled in block, we work a dc in each of the next 2 ch sts to fill in the middle, and then a 3rd dc to form the left side of the block. Repeat 3 more times for filled in blocks 3-5.
So really, it's the same idea of working open and closed blocks anywhere else in the project, just this time we work into our foundation chain. Hope this helps! Don't hesitate to reach out if you've got anymore questions. I love helping people crochet, and I hope your project turns out awesome!
I keep making six spaces in the foundation row and I don’t know why and it’s driving me crazy
Could you send me the pattern for the letters both Capitol and lowercase letters of all letters? I can explain why if you want me to in your response. I liked your video explaining how to do this. Thank you.
I think you can make your own pattern by using graph paper.
It's size 10 thread size 3 thread choice colours are minimal
Likely true!
That looks like a #10 thread to me. Any of it will work.
You're probably right! I like working with the #10 thread best since it's small enough to look detailed but big enough that I can still work with it! lol
Hi...I am new to fillet crochet...my mother-in-law want me to make the prayer hands that she made some 50years back n gifted it to the church...she has lost pattern and asked me to make one...it would be kind of you if you can help me with it. Thanks...Irene(India)
Hi, Irene! I found this pattern for on a blog for praying hands made with crochet filet: filetcrochetbymaria.blogspot.com/2014/07/crochet-filet-praying-hands-with-lacet.html
The pattern includes instructions on how to follow the graph. Hope this helps!
@@CraftersAutonomous thank you so much...❤️
Do it please
I've never seen someone yarn over like this.. idk why but it was very distracting to me..
Haha, it's funny how we each have our little quirks when crocheting. Sorry it was distracting!
I understand what your saying. She is actually pulling the yarn over the hook and not moving the hook. I move the hook and grab the yarn. You know what is even worse. Watching someone yarn over in one motion and then yarn under in the second motion. WTF. I didn't even know there was such a thing as yarning under. I watch people who crochet amigarumi and one lady showed some patterns using yarn under instead of yarn over. There is a visual difference in the finished look and she said it uses less yarn.