Crochet Your Own Chess Square – Free C2C Pattern
My take on the game of chess is this Chess Square. It was a fun one to design and to make. This celebrates International Chess Day on July 20th.
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International Chess Day is celebrated on the date that that the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDES) was founded in 1924. This became the governing body of chess around the world. The first International Chess Day was celebrated in 1966.
Fun Fact
Did you know that chess started in the fifth century in India? The square board that is so well recognised today was first used in about 1060!
PDF Pattern links
If you would like the ad-free PDF Pattern which includes the chart, written and colour block instructions you can find it in my shops:
PART OF THE KINSHIP CAL 2022
Throughout 2022 I am releasing one square a month. The theme is international days and holidays that are not political or religiously motivated. This is why I named it the Kinship CAL – everyone can join in and just have fun with it.
The Crochet in Public Square is for June. If you want to check out the other squares so far you can visit my round up post here.
NEW TO CORNER TO CORNER?
I have a learn to corner to corner course . It has helped a lot of crocheters to master corner to corner. Together we look at reading the patterns, how to do the stitch, increases and decreases and colour changes. I will show you how to work both squares and rectangles too. We even make a couple of free pattern projects together!
Pattern Specifics:
Sizing: Finished size once blocked is approximately 12” square depending on tension if using HDC
Notes:
This is corner to corner graph and is worked bottom right to top left on the right side.
To work out how much yarn you will need you will need to do a sample swatch with the stitch. Use the stitch you intend to use (HDC or DC). Then measure how much yarn you used per stitch multiplying that by the number of stitches of that color. Add some for the tails to be worked in at the end.
Color charts with stitch totals are listed under the picture graph on the next page.
The Chart
| Colour | Colour you are using | No of Sts |
| Black | 211 | |
| Brown | 230 | |
| Cream | 184 |
↙ Row 1: (brown) x 1 (1 square)
↗ Row 2: (brown) x 2 (2 squares)
↙ Row 3: (brown) x 3 (3 squares)
↗ Row 4: (brown) x 4 (4 squares)
↙ Row 5: (brown) x 5 (5 squares)
↗ Row 6: (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1 (6 squares)
↙ Row 7: (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3, (Black) x 1, (cream) x 1 (7 squares)
↗ Row 8: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 1, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3 (8 squares)
↙ Row 9: (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1, (Black) x 3, (cream) x 1 (9 squares)
↗ Row 10: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 4, (cream) x 5 (10 squares)
↙ Row 11: (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1, (Black) x 4, (brown) x 1 (11 squares)
↗ Row 12: (brown) x 1, (Black) x 5, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2 (12 squares)
↙ Row 13: (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 2, (Black) x 5, (brown) x 1 (13 squares)
↗ Row 14: (brown) x 1, (Black) x 6, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4 (14 squares)
↙ Row 15: (brown) x 8, (Black) x 6, (brown) x 1 (15 squares)
↗ Row 16: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 7, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1 (16 squares)
↙ Row 17: (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 2, (Black) x 7, (cream) x 1 (17 squares)
↗ Row 18: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 8, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3 (18 squares)
↙ Row 19: (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4, (Black) x 9, (cream) x 1 (19 squares)
↗ Row 20: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 10, (cream) x 9 (20 squares)
↙ Row 21: (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 3, (Black) x 11, (brown) x 1 (21 squares)
↗ Row 22: (brown) x 2, (cream) x 1, (Black) x 10, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2 (22 squares)
↙ Row 23: (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3, (cream) x 1, (Black) x 11, (brown) x 3 (23 squares)
↗ Row 24: (brown) x 4, (Black) x 11, (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4 (24 squares)
↙ Row 25: (brown) x 10, (Black) x 6, (brown) x 9 (25 squares)
Corner at both sides
↗ Row 26: (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4, (Black) x 6, (brown) x 2, (Black) x 1, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4 (24 squares)
↙ Row 27: (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2, (Black) x 2, (brown) x 1, (Black) x 6, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3 (23 squares)
↗ Row 28: (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 2, (Black) x 5, (cream) x 1, (Black) x 3, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 2 (22 squares)
↙ Row 29: (brown) x 1, (cream) x 2, (Black) x 9, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1 (21 squares)
↗ Row 30: (cream) x 9, (Black) x 9, (cream) x 2 (20 squares)
↙ Row 31: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 8, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4 (19 squares)
↗ Row 32: (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 1, (Black) x 4, (cream) x 1, (Black) x 1, (cream) x 1 (18 squares)
↙ Row 33: (cream) x 2, (brown) x 1, (Black) x 4, (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2 (17 squares)
↗ Row 34: (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 3, (Black) x 5, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 1 (16 squares)
↙ Row 35: (brown) x 1, (Black) x 6, (brown) x 8 (15 squares)
↗ Row 36: (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 2, (Black) x 6, (brown) x 1 (14 squares)
↙ Row 37: (brown) x 1, (Black) x 1, (brown) x 1, (Black) x 3, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3 (13 squares)
↗ Row 38: (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2, (Black) x 2, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 2 (12 squares)
↙ Row 39: (brown) x 1, (cream) x 1, (Black) x 2, (cream) x 1, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4, (brown) x 1 (11 squares)
↗ Row 40: (cream) x 7, (Black) x 2, (cream) x 1 (10 squares)
↙ Row 41: (cream) x 1, (Black) x 1, (cream) x 2, (brown) x 1, (cream) x 4 (9 squares)
↗ Row 42: (cream) x 3, (brown) x 2, (cream) x 3 (8 squares)
↙ Row 43: (cream) x 2, (brown) x 3, (cream) x 2 (7 squares)
↗ Row 44: (cream) x 1, (brown) x 4, (cream) x 1 (6 squares)
↙ Row 45: (brown) x 5 (5 squares)
↗ Row 46: (brown) x 4 (4 squares)
↙ Row 47: (brown) x 3 (3 squares)
↗ Row 48: (brown) x 2 (2 squares)
↙ Row 49: (brown) x 1 (1 square)
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