Free Checkerboard crochet chart
Bobble design. Published
A 20×20 cream-and-charcoal checkerboard with 4×4 blocks. Simple, geometric, and a useful base pattern for testing yarn tension and colour pairs.
Free to make in Make Mode.
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Details
- Technique
- Single crochet (SC)
- Size
- 20 × 20 squares
- Finished size
- ~11 × 10 cm / 4 × 4 in
- Stitches
- 400
- Stitch
- dc in UK terms, sc in US terms
- Yarn and hook
- DK, 4 mm hook
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Time
- About 1 hour
Yarn (2 colours, DK weight)
- Cream12 m, under a quarter of a ball
- Charcoal11 m, under a quarter of a ball
Estimates for DK-weight yarn, including a 10% allowance for tension and tails. A 100 g ball of DK is about 285 m. If you can, buy a spare ball of your main colour: dye lots vary.
About this design
Checkerboard is more than a finished pattern, it's a test pattern. Crocheters use it to check that two yarn colours have similar tension, to practise carrying yarn neatly behind the work, and to size up a graphghan stitch on a swatch before committing to a full blanket.
The 4×4 block size is small enough to keep colour changes frequent but large enough that the blocks read as squares rather than dots. Pick any two contrasting colours, black/white, navy/cream, charcoal/gold. The pattern works in any palette.
If you want the same idea bigger, open it in Bobble and stretch the dimensions. The block size will scale with it.
Good for
- Tension swatch
- Practice piece for two-colour work
- Bath mat in cotton yarn
How to make it
Tap Make this and the design opens in Bobble as your own project, with its colour palette, ready to make row by row in Make Mode.
UK terms. Each square is one double crochet (dc); in US terms, a single crochet (sc).
Questions about this design
How many stitches is the Checkerboard chart?
20 by 20 squares, 400 stitches in total. Worked in single crochet it comes out at about 11 by 10 cm (4 by 4 in).
What yarn do I need for the Checkerboard chart?
DK-weight yarn in 2 colours, with a 4 mm hook: about 12 m of Cream and 11 m of Charcoal, including a 10% allowance for tension and tails.
Can I make the Checkerboard chart in corner-to-corner (C2C)?
Yes. It is a colour grid, so it works either row by row or on the diagonal. Make Mode takes you through it in Single crochet (SC), and the grid is the same whichever you choose.
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