From crochet.about.com - Baby Chick Front View Written Instructions For Filet Crochet In A 3dc Mesh

Following are instructions written out, row by row, for crocheting this baby chick filet crochet design in a three double crochet mesh. If you are new to chart-reading, comparing the written directions to the chart, as you go along, can help you become familiar with crocheting from a chart or graph.

Abbreviations used in this pattern: ch = chain, dc = double crochet, ea = each, sp = space

Materials Used In The Example:
Size 10 crochet cotton thread
U.S. Size 7 steel crochet hook
That finished size: about 3 inches square

If making the design with worsted weight yarn and a U.S. size G crochet hook, that finished size is about 8 inches square.

Instructions written by Sandi Marshall, copyright 2006, licensed to About.com, Inc.

You will turn at the end of each row.

On rows 2 - 15, the first ch 4 counts as the first dc and a chain 1.

For rows 2 - 15, where the directions say to work a dc in the next dc at the end of the row, the last dc is actually being made in the chain-4 that was made at the beginning of the previous row (with that chain-4 now being at the end of the row being worked). 3 chains count as a dc, so work the last dc of a row as follows: skip the first chain of the chain-4, dc in the next chain.

Pattern Directions
Starting Chain: Chain 35.
Row 1: dc in the 7th ch from the hook, (ch 1, skip next ch, dc in next ch) 14 times. (There are 15 open mesh in this row.)
Row 2: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 1. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 5 times, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times.
Row 3: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 2. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times.
Row 4: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 3. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times, dc in ea of next 2 dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, dc in ea of next 2 dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 5 times.
Row 5: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 4. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times, ch 1, skip next dc, (dc in next dc, dc in next ch-1 sp) 3 times, dc in next dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 5 times.
Row 6: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 5. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in ea of next 7 dc, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 5 times.
Row 7: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 6. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in ea of next 11 dc, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times.
Row 8: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 7. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, dc in ea of next 14 dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times.
Row 9: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 8. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times, dc in ea of next 14 dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 4 times.
Row 10: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 9. (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) twice, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in ea of next 15 dc, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 3 times.
Row 11: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 10, (dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) twice, dc in ea of next 2 dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in ea of next 5 dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in ea of next 5 dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in ea of next 3 dc, (dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) twice, ch 1, skip next ch-1 sp, dc in last dc.
Row 12: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 11, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 3 times, ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, dc in ea of next 2 dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, dc in ea of next 2 dc, ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 3 times, ch 1, skip next ch-1 sp, dc in last dc.
Row 13: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 12, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 4 times, dc in ea of next 2 dc, (dc in next ch-1 sp, dc in ea of next 3 dc) twice, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 5 times.
Row 14: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 13, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 4 times, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, dc in ea of next 6 dc, ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc, (ch 1, skip ch-1 sp, dc in next dc) 5 times.
Row 15: ch 4, dc in 2nd dc of row 14, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 5 times, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 3 times, (ch 1, skip next dc, dc in next dc) 6 times.

This is the same finished size as the baby chick side view chart - http://crochet.about.com/library/blbabychicks1.htm. You may want to combine the charts within a project.

Written Instructions copyright 2006 and the images of the filet crochet piece copyright 2000, 2006 by Sandi Marshall, licensed to About.com, Inc. Per copyright law, do not redistribute as reproduced copies, even for free. Instead, you may give the URL of the main page for this pattern (preferred) or the URL of this printing page to anyone who wants the pattern. Thank you. I appreciate it.

URL of the main page for this pattern is http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aababychick3dc.htm
URL of this printing page is http://crochet.about.com/library/nbabychick3dc.htm

About the chart: I recharted and adapted this design --- Sandi Marshall. I added all the instructions for working the chart in filet crochet. Baby Chick Design (with no chart) was originally shown in Collection of Artistic Crochet Work, by Emma Landis Ferguson, published in the year 1916. Chart was also printed (as part of another design) in Star Needlework Journal, Vol. 4, No 4, published in the year 1919. Having been published before the year 1923, those original versions of the baby chick design are now in the public domain.

How long does copyright last? See US Government Copyright Office web site at http://www.loc.gov/copyright. Under "Publications" heading, click on "Information Circulars": Circular 15 (Renewal of Copyrights), Circular 15a (Duration of Copyrights) and Circular 15t (Extension of Copyright Terms)