Design Your Own Filet Crochet Charts
Written by the Filet Crochet Chart Builder team · Updated
Once you can read a filet chart, the next step is making your own. Because filet is pure on/off cells, designing a chart is the same as filling in a grid — and the editor here turns that grid straight into a printable, stitchable pattern.
Before this guide
Start from a grid or a template
Open the editor with a blank grid sized to your project, or load any template as a starting point. Every template is fully editable, so you can take an existing motif and adapt it rather than drawing from scratch.
Draw with block and mesh
Fill cells by hand with the pencil, fill, line, and rectangle tools. Each filled cell is a block and each empty cell is a space, so the picture on the grid is exactly the chart you will crochet. Keep strokes at least two cells wide so shapes stay readable in the finished fabric.
Add lettering or convert an image
Stamp crisp bitmap letters and numbers to add a name or date, or use the image tool to turn a simple logo or silhouette into a binary grid and pick the cleanest automatic result. Both drop straight onto the grid as editable cells.
Print or export your pattern
When the design looks right, print a clean numbered chart sized to your gauge, or export a PDF, PNG, TXT, or CSV. Nothing is locked, so you can revisit and refine the chart any time before you stitch.
Ready to try it?
Open the ComposerRelated patterns
Practice projects
Put this guide to work on a motif chosen to match what you just learned.