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If you enjoy stitching quick simple projects and are always on the look-out for more designs, try searching for Filet Crochet patterns. Designs for filet crochet can be elaborate or quite plain. Repetitive motifs can be used as borders or fillers. The opportunity to design a very personal project with all the right touches are limitless.

What is Filet Crochet?

Filet Crochet is created by making an openwork mesh of chains and fill in spaces with doubles to make a solid block. The designing of patterns is much like designing cross-stitch designs using graph paper and filling in individual blocks.  It's an easy and old style of crochet so there are thousands of patterns available.

Here are a couple of links to get you started on your search.

http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/directory/filet_crochet.php

http://crochet.about.com/od/filetcrochetcharts/ss/leaves011203_3.htm 

Beagle Filet Crochet designed by Kathy Wilson and available at http://www.allfreecrafts.com/crochet/beagle-filet.shtml

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Monika Lewis mentioned she designed that wonderful Star Trek project with inspiration from Jo Verso's World of Cross Stitch book

This is a terrific way to start creating your own designs. Jo Verso uses sharp, simple clean lines and her books encourage picking and chosing motifs that are right for you. Her designs are so adaptable, you'll find you can make modifications easily. 

A good online source for purchasing her books is here at Arts and Designs

http://www.artsanddesigns.com/cgi-bin/makeGallery.pl?st=any&searchphrase=jo%20verso&category=book.stitchcraft

Ebay is another good source.

If you don't have a handy stack of graph paper (you will need it for this style of designing)

here is a link to a free downloadable program

http://download.cnet.com/Graph-Paper-Printer/3000-2064_4-10037453.html

Happy Designing & Stitching

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Monika Lewis has posted her Star Trek design at the following link

http://sites.google.com/site/monikalewis/star-trek

You can see more of her work on the flickr photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/monikalel42/2701429569/

Monika has created some wonderful projects.

Hope this has helped inspire your creativity.

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