DMC cotton #30, steel crochet hook size 10
This pattern of creating a grid and filling in some squares of the grid with a block of dc stitches is called “filet crochet”. This technique can be used to make many repeating designs or huge freehand pictures, as long as the design can be translated to a grid, such as below. Many items crocheted for use in churches use this technique. It is important to make the height of the dc stitches as tall as the squares are wide, so the filet squares are as truly square as possible. This is done by adjusting how much yarn you draw up when you draw up the thread after inserting the hook in the row below, not by making tight or loose stitches. Tighter stitches look best so use the smallest hook you are comfortable working with.
R1: ch 32, turn
R2: 1 dc in 8th ch from hook, (ch 2, sk 2 ch, 1 dc in next ch) 8 times, ch 5, turn
R3: (sk 2 ch, 1 dc in dc, ch 2) 8 times, 1 dc in top of ch-3 (note: this occurs at the end of every row where a stitch is being worked into the chain at the end of the row below... along the chain, count 3 chain stitches up from the base of the chain and insert the hook there and work the dc; this 3rd ch is called the “top of ch-3”), ch 5, turn
Repeat R3 for the length desired, except, for filet squares marked in the grid below. In these squares, crochet 2 dc instead of making the (ch-2, sk 2 stitches).
Also, you can make lace that turns a corner (as in Grandma's pattern swatch for this pattern), by finishing the lace pattern in a strip as long as desired and then turning the pattern at right angles and working outward from from 9 base filet crochet squares along the side. You can do this without breaking the thread.
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