Photo shows a close look at the crochet stitches used, along with instructions for making granny style outside rounds, crocheted around a filet crochet piece to make it into an afghan.
I've used my carrot design filet crochet and the rabbit charted patterns as an example.
As instructed on previous page, the first round (around the filet crochet piece) was in single crochet.
Attach the yarn in the first sc on the top row of the piece. Follow directions below to continue with the outside granny-style rounds.
Granny Outside Round 1: This is a guideline, geared for the size of the rabbit and carrot charts with one sc round added. You can easily adapt this to go around other sizes of filet crochet pieces. Guideline Instructions: ch 3 (counts as first dc), dc in ea of next 2 sc, (ch 2, skip next 2 sc, dc in ea of next 3 sc) 6 times across the top edge, then for corner: ch 5, then working down the next long side, dc in ch-2 corner chain, dc in ea of next 2 sc, (ch 2, skip next 2 sc, dc in ea of next 3 sc) 12 times along that edge (last dc is made in the ch-2 corner chain), for next corner: ch 5, then working the bottom edge, skip 1 sc, dc in ea of next 3 sc, (ch 2, skip next 2 sc, dc in ea of next 3 sc) 6 times across the bottom edge, then for corner: ch 5, then working along next long side, skip 2 sc, dc in ea of next 3 sc, (ch 2, skip next 2 sc, dc in ea of next 3 sc) 11 times along the long edge, then for corner: ch 5, then skip next sc and the ch-2 corner, slip stitch in the first dc of this round.
Continue to Granny Style Round 2 Instructions with a close look at the stitches of the corner portion.
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