Fillet crochet is a crocheting technique that imitates embroidery and is a grid with filled cells. It can be used both for combined crocheting and as an independent technique. With its help, beautiful lace doilies, tops, dresses, tunics, etc. are created. The fillet crochet items can be of the most diverse shapes, have outlines not only of a rectangle, but also of a circle, an oval, a polygon. The edge of the canvas can be decorated in the form of teeth, festoons, waves, take the most diverse form that can be depicted on a cellular grid. To form different outlines of item use the methods of adding and reducing cells at the end and at the beginning of the row. In addition to a simple cells there is the so-called tulle background, which forms contrasting zones, which makes the fillet pattern even more expressive. Images of animals, birds and butterflies are often used in fillet crochet. May b...
Today we will consider how to crochet a fillet doily with roses. It was crocheted from cotton yarn (100 g - 350 m) with crochet hook No. 2.5. Spent about 400 grams of yarn. The measurements of the doily are shown in the photo below. The doily is made in fillet crocheting, that is when the open block of mesh is crocheted from double crochet from the first loop of the previous row, two loops, and another double crochet from the third loop of the previous row, and the solid block is four double crochet. I noticed that the blocks will be more square if you crochet not double crochet but treble crochet. Below is a chart for a doily. To begin need to crochet 151 loops and start crocheting the first row according to the chart - the direction of movement is shown by the arrow. At the end of the 24th row, need to crochet 72 loops to form the first expansion. At the end of the 48th row, need to crochet 72 loops to ...