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Crochet table runner: filet diamonds in light cotton

Chain 60 and work 85 rows of filet 19 squares wide: two solid rows, five diamonds of 16 rows each, a last point row, then two solid rows.

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Filet blocks and spacesUS termsHook: 4 mm (US G-6), or the size that gives you gaugeSize from your washed swatchEm portuguêsDK yarn

Know these stitches: chain, double crochet

The finished table runner.

Materials and yarn planning

Yarns we’ve reviewed that suit it: Bernat Softee Cotton yarn, Lion Brand 24/7 Cotton DK yarn. For the hook, choose by size and handle.

Yarn estimate: the 4,930 double crochets and chains at about 5 cm of light cotton each come to about 250 m. Buy about 300 m.

For an exact figure in your own yarn, weigh a washed swatch in the pattern stitch: the weighed-swatch yarn calculator scales it to each flat panel or strip. Allow a little more for seams, edging and tails.

Finished size and gauge

At about 6 squares and 7 rows per 10 cm, the runner is about 32 cm wide and 121 cm long. Each extra diamond adds 16 rows, about 23 cm; for a wider runner, add squares in pairs, one at each side, so the diamond stays centered: chain 6 more, and work 1 more block at each end of the solid rows and 1 more space inside each edge block of the diamond rows. Block it flat to open the mesh. These are calculations from the counts, not a measured sample.

The gauge calculator compares your swatch with the pattern. A stitch name you do not know is in the abbreviation chart; a UK pattern’s names are in the US/UK term reference.

The pattern

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Blocks and spaces

  1. Every square is 3 stitches wide, and each row has 1 more double crochet at its start: 19 squares make 58 stitches and chains. Start each row with chain 3 and turn; the chain 3 counts as that first double crochet. Then work the squares, each ending in a double crochet; the last one of the row goes in the top of the turning chain.
  2. A block over a block: double crochet in the next 3 stitches. A block over a space: 2 double crochets in the chain-2 space, then double crochet in the next double crochet. A space over a block: chain 2, skip 2 stitches, double crochet in the next. A space over a space: chain 2, double crochet in the next double crochet.

Runner

  1. Chain 60. Row 1: double crochet in the fourth chain from the hook and in each chain across: 58 stitches (the skipped chains count as the first double crochet).
  2. Row 2: chain 3 and turn, double crochet in each stitch across: 58 stitches, 19 blocks.
  3. Row 3: 1 block, 8 spaces, 1 block, 8 spaces, 1 block.
  4. Rows 4 and 18: 1 block, 7 spaces, 1 block, 1 space, 1 block, 7 spaces, 1 block.
  5. Rows 5 and 17: 1 block, 6 spaces, 1 block, 3 spaces, 1 block, 6 spaces, 1 block.
  6. Rows 6 and 16: 1 block, 5 spaces, 1 block, 5 spaces, 1 block, 5 spaces, 1 block.
  7. Rows 7 and 15: 1 block, 4 spaces, 1 block, 7 spaces, 1 block, 4 spaces, 1 block.
  8. Rows 8 and 14: 1 block, 3 spaces, 1 block, 9 spaces, 1 block, 3 spaces, 1 block.
  9. Rows 9 and 13: 1 block, 2 spaces, 1 block, 11 spaces, 1 block, 2 spaces, 1 block.
  10. Rows 10 and 12: 1 block, 1 space, 1 block, 13 spaces, 1 block, 1 space, 1 block.
  11. Row 11: 2 blocks, 15 spaces, 2 blocks.
  12. Rows 19–82: repeat Rows 3–18 4 more times.
  13. Row 83: work as Row 3.
  14. Rows 84–85: chain 3 and turn, 19 blocks: 58 stitches. Fasten off, weave in the ends and block the runner flat.

Check the work

Every row has 19 squares and 58 stitches and chains. Each diamond row has a block at both edges and its other blocks placed evenly either side of the middle square, so every row reads the same from either end.

Stitches and chains in every row58 · 58 · 58
  • If the runner narrows, a space ended in a chain space instead of a double crochet: count the squares on the last row.
  • If a diamond looks broken, count the squares of the last row against its line above: the rows read the same from either end, so the fault is a miscounted square.
  • If the mesh looks squashed, the rows are short for the squares: try a hook 0.5 mm larger, or block it harder.

Updated . Stitch counts checked row by row; we haven’t crocheted a sample of this one yet. How the patterns are checked. Keep your yarn label, hook and swatch on the printable project worksheet.

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