Iris Flower Filet Crochet Chart

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The iris chart on this page is the same finished size as the thistle flower chart shown at left and also the same size as a co-ordinating rose chart. You could do all three as a wall grouping if you wanted to. Click here for: Free Thistle Chart and Free Rose Chart

Filet Crochet Help:

Working the Chart in Filet Crochet For a 4 dc mesh, total starting chain: 97 chains (that's a beginning chain of 94, plus chain 3, which will count as first dc of first row). Begin by working a double crochet in the 5th chain from the hook.

Chart is worked starting at the bottom right; work first row right to left. Second row is worked left to right. Continue alternating row directions in this same manner, following chart.

How to Figure a Starting Chain in Filet Crochet

Basics in How to Do Filet Crochet, including lacets, here:
http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa050298.htm

Increasing in Filet Crochet:
http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa050998.htm

Approximate finished sizes in filet crochet
(once through the chart, worked in 4 dc mesh):
With size 10 thread (170 yards) and a size 7 steel hook, finished size is about 7.1 inches x 12 inches.
With size 20 thread (159 yards) and a size 9 steel hook, finished size is about 6.8 inches x 11.5 inches.
With size 30 thread (149 yards) and a size 11 steel hook, finished size is about 6.5 inches x 11 inches.
With fingering/baby weight yarn (372 yards) and a size F hook, finished size is about 21.7 inches x 34.6 inches.
With sport weight yarn (432 yards) and a size G hook, finished size is about 24.8 inches x 39.4 inches.
With worsted weight yarn (491 yards) and a size I hook, finished size is about 27.9 inches x 44.2 inches.

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I recharted, altered from the original and added lacets to this Iris Flower Chart. Chart the design on this page is based on is from Filet Crochet & Cross Stitch, Book 7, created by Hugo Kirchmaier, published in the year 1920.

Filet Crochet Image of Finished Piece on this page by Sandi Marshall.

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URL of this page is:
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Related About.com Site: 3D Iris beaded in brick stitch and square stitch, with step-by-step diagrams, created by former Beadwork Guide, Emily Hackbarth: http://beadwork.about.com/library/weekly/aa081798.htm

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