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Wave for Chart Reading

A Mosaic Crochet Tutorial

Chart and pattern ©Ashlee Brotzell 2020 www.ravelry.com/designers/ashlee-brotzell

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Introduction
This little chart will not be accompanied by line-by-line instructions. The purpose here is to teach you
how to do mosaic crochet off of a chart that HAS NOT been marked with x’s. I have a YouTube video to
accompany this piece.

I recommend that you first learn how to do the mosaic crochet stitches before attempting this tutorial.

Key
Important Details
MC = Main Color: black in chart
• US crochet terminology
• Chart is 21 x 21 CC = Contrasting Color: white in chart
• Finished size approximately 5”
Sp = space
• 4.5 mm hook (US7)
• Worsted weight yarn (40 yards) Sk = skip a stitch
o Main color – 20 yards
CH = chain
o Contrasting color – 20 yards
• Gauge: 16 stitches x 16 rows = 4” SC = single crochet

sc = SC into Back Loop only

Watch my YouTube tutorials!
I also have a free photo tutorial in PDF
form on this technique available in my
Facebook group (Ashlee’s Locked Filet
Mesh and Mosaic Crochet) and on Ravelry
All my social media links are here:
DC = double crochet
dc = DC into Front Loop of stitch, 2 rows below
JS = Joining Stitch: insert hook under both
loops, pull up a loop, slip stitch, SC in same
space

https://linktr.ee/LFMandMosaic ES = End Stitch: SC under both loops, CH 1, cut

yarn and pull through tightly

Remember to skip the

How to Read the Chart same number of
• Start at the bottom right corner and read each row from right to left stitch(es) behind your
• Each square on the chart is one stitch dc(s) before doing
• Add one stitch on each side of the chart for joining and ending your next sc
• Foundation row is row 0, use your MC
• Odd rows use CC
o CC is white in the chart
o When using your CC, whenever you see a white square do a dc
• Even rows ise MC
o MC is black in the chart
o When using your MC, whenever you see a blank square do a dc

Chart and pattern ©Ashlee Brotzell 2020 www.ravelry.com/designers/ashlee-brotzell

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Mosaic Technique
Please see the YouTube tutorial for more details. I use a single-row mosaic technique. Each square on
the chart corresponds to one stitch. There is an additional stitch (not visible on the chart) on each side of
the chart for joining and ending. You start at the bottom-right corner of the chart.

dc = the Front Loop DC goes into

the same colored stitch, 2 rows
below

sc = a single crochet in the body of

the pattern is going into the Back
Loop Only

• The front of your work is always facing you (this is the right side, the side showing the design)
• You are always working from the right to the left
• You tie on a new yarn at the beginning of each row and cut it at the end
o Tails don’t need to be longer than an inch and a half
• Yarn colors can be anything you like
o They need to contrast well (try a black and white photo to see if they are too similar)
o They need to be the same weight (size/thickness)
o My charts use black as the Main Color and white as the Coordinating Color
• I prefer using a chainless SC to create my foundation row because then I have tails on both sides
of my work just like all the other rows will have
• Even-numbered rows use MC; odd-numbered rows use CC

Foundation Row: use Main Color (MC) (black on the chart)

Use a chainless SC technique to create 21 +2 SC. Or, chain 21 +3, SC in 2nd from hook and all the way
back across. Cut and tie off.

Switch to Contrasting Color (CC) {Even- rows use MC; odd-numbered rows use CC}
1 - JS, sc21, ES
2 - JS, dc1, sc19, dc1, ES
3 - JS, sc21, ES
4 - JS, dc1, sc1, dc1, sc3, (dc1,
sc1) x3, dc1, sc5, dc1, sc1, dc1,
ES
5 - JS, (sc1, dc1) x3, sc9, (dc1,
sc1) x3, ES
6 - now you’re on your own!
You are using your MC and
looking at row 6 on the chart.
Every black square is a dc,
white sqaures are sc.
7 – using AC. White on the
chart is a DC, black is sc.
8 – practice reading the chart
on your own.
Tie your ends together.
Trim the fringe.

Add a border if you want.

Chart and pattern ©Ashlee Brotzell 2020 www.ravelry.com/designers/ashlee-brotzell