Filet crochet help

[Anna Van Vorst]

Hello I am new here and a newbie to crochet and was wondering how do you correspond the amount of stitches versus pattern size when graphing out a picture I have found many tutorials about how to filet crochet but none about how to count also how do you know how many chains from the hook to skip for the first dc any help is greatly appreciated ????

[RoseRed]

The Smart Crochet and Haas Designs websites have excellent tutorials that explain those questions in detail.

[Granny Square]

Linkies - note the Smart Crochet has several pages, I've linked to page 1 - use the menu at the left (or button at the bottom) to go to the next topic.

http://www.hassdesign.com/BasicFiletTechniques/

http://www.smartcrochet.com/lesson1.shtml

[Anna Van Vorst]

Thank you both one of the things that I have from My Mother that I love is a old car that was filet crocheted it is in a big picture frame So I would love to master this too