filet crochet

[Beauty4Ashes]

How do you mount a finished filet crochet project? What type of fabric would you use? I'm new at doing filet crochet and have just 5 more rows to go before I finish this project...Thanks!

[Buela]

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I've got a project I completed in college sitting in the basement that I'd like to do something with.

[Beauty4Ashes]

It's this pattern: (Hand of God/Hand of Fatima) http://voices.yahoo.com/photos/crochet-filet-hand-fatima-hamsa-kabbalah-islam-5455119.html

I finished it, but used a varigated colored string

( http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog/zoomImagedetail.jsp?PRODID=9818972&imageType=m&itemType=sku )

so it's hard to see the details. I'll take a picture and post it when it's light out. I stitched it to a cream colored piece of fabric. I guess I should have used a solid colored string instead, but I get tired of looking at one color row after row after row. Attached to a piece of cloth, you won't be able to see where my gauge became too tight and too loose at times.

[StumblinMama]

If you're willing to pay someone, I think most frame shops will stretch and mount projects like this :yes

[TestifyToLove]

I've never actually mounted filet crochet. I've used it to make curtains and bedspreads.

[Beauty4Ashes]

I don't think that I'm patient enough to make curtains or bedspreads or table cloths. :)

[Beauty4Ashes]

TTL, how do you keep your gauge/tension even when doing filet crochet, especially on something so large as a curtain?

Maybe mount isn't the right word. I stitched my filet crochet project onto cloth. I think that this one will be for me.

[rosesnsnails]

Did you block it before you stitched it?

I would frame it with glass over it because it will gather dust otherwise.

[Beauty4Ashes]

What do you mean by blocking it? Would that be like creating a swatch to determine the gauge? :scratch

[rosesnsnails]

http://www.crochetmemories.com/crochet7.php
http://www.knitsimplemag.com/node/32
http://www.michaels.com/Blocking-a-Crocheted-Piece/ae0079,default,pg.html

:) bbl

[mommy9994]

you can pin it to a piece of styrofoam and starch it to make it stiff (or use glue mixed with water, but I don't know how exactly). I would just use a contrasting color behind it. Most of the filet pieces I've done are last name doilies, so they are not displayed. My first one, I made with ww yarn, and I'm going to turn it into a pillow at some point.

[TestifyToLove]

I've been crocheting since I was 7. I keep gage/tension for the basic fact that I NEVER pull the yarn. I merely let my hand function as something to keep the yarn untangled with, and to pull it out of the working yarn before it pulls the work tight.

Honestly if you are pulling on your yarn, you are going to be inconsistent with your tension, and in filet work, it's definitely going to show a LOT.