Tutorial: The Tunisian Purl Stitch/Tunisch Averechte Steek

We gaan nog even verder met nepbreien!

De vorige keer liet ik je zien hoe je met Tunisch haken de rechte breisteek kon na-apen, en vandaag hoe je "averechte steken" kunt maken.

Dit is even de laatste Tunische tutorial (voor even), ik ga hierna weer tutorials maken over normale haaksteken en technieken.

Wil je mijn foto-tutorials en geschreven tekst zien over de averechte steek? Klik dan hier! Wil je meer weten over Tunisch haken kijk dan ook eens naar de complete Tunische haakcursus.

Veel plezier met de video! Laat me weten wat je er van vind en geef me een "like"!

xx

Barbara


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Let's do some fake knitting!

Last time I showed you how to recreate the knit stitch with Tunisian crochet, and this time I will show you how to fake the purl stitch.

For now this will be the last Tunisian crochet video tutorial, I am going to tape "normal" crochet stitches and techniques the upcoming weeks.

But if you like it, please check out the written tutorials on the purl stitch and my complete Tunisian Crochet course.

Have fun with the video! Let me know what you think of it and give me a thumbs up!

xx

Barbara

Tutorial: Tunisian Simple Stitch / Tunische Gewone Steek

Vorig jaar schreef ik de cursus Leer Tunisch haken, en ik merk dat er steeds meer aandacht voor deze superleuke techniek komt! Maar ik kan me voorstellen dat niet iedereen de foto's helemaal begrijpt, of het heel graag mij ziet doen, zodat jullie, lieve lezers, het makkelijk kunnen volgen. Dus vandaag, in aanvulling op mijn eerste fototutorial over de Tunische Rechte of Gewone steek een video tutorial met daarin de uitleg over de basistoer van Tunisch haken en de Tunische Gewone Steek!

Veel plezier!!


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Last year I wrote the Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style course, because, well, I simply adore this technique and I saw questions about those silly hooks popping here and there on blogs/forums/facebook. I worked with phototutorials at that time for my post on the Tunisian Simple Stitch, but I thought it would be fun to make videotutorials of these techniques!
Today I am showing you how to do the foundation row and the Tunisian Simple Stitch.
Have fun with the video!

Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style: Pillow cushion cover

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Hi all,
This is the last lesson of the Tunisian Crochet course..... I hope you enjoyed it!
I am going to use some techniques from the previous lessons to show you how to make a flat project with one colour for the vertical bars and one colour for the background. This is a technique I haven't seen explained on the internet, so I thought it would be very helpful to put it out there!
Pick a colour A (vertical bars) and a colour B (background). You are going to work with the same hooks as for the "Knitted" cowl and hat, so pick some bulky yarn!

 

For this project you need to know how to use a double ended hook, how to do the Tunisian Simple Stitch and the Tunisian Reverse Stitch. Pay attention please! You are going to make a FLAT project with the double ended hook.

The pillow cushion cover will fit on a standard 40x40 cm cushion (15.7"x 15.7"). The project itself is with a bit negative ease, so your first row will measure 38 cm (15 inch).

I used three strands of dk yarn for in matching colours colour B and two strands of grey dk yarn for colour A. I used different colours for the back and the front. I used green hues for the front and blue/purple for the back.
You will need a double ended hook size 11.5 mm/P  and a normal crochet hook 10 mm

Chain 28 with colour A

Make a TSS row

 

Turn your work over, take colour B and pull through your first loop.

Make a return pass until you come to the last two loops

* Pick up your colour A , pull through the last two loops and make a TSS forward pass

Turn your work

Pick up colour B, pull through the last loop and make a return pass.

Stop at your last two loops, pick up colour A and pull through those two last loops.

 

Start a Tunisian Reverse Stitch forward pass

 

After finishing the forward pass, turn your work and pull colour B through the last st

Make a return pass until you have two loops left.

Pull colour A through those last two loops*

Repeat between ** until you have a square of approximately 38x38 cm or 15"x 15". Finish with a finishing row in Tunisian Simple Stitch.
Make another square and weave in ends. Place them with with wrong sides together Take colour A, attach it in a corner with a normal crochet hook (I used 10 mm) and make 3 single crochets in that corner stitch and 1 single crochet in each row end and stitch through both squares. In the top sides only crochet in the first four stitches through both squares (after the corner stitches), then only crochet in the front square, and when you come to the last four (five actually because in the last stitch you make 3 corner stitches) stitches of the top side, crochet through both squares. Now you have an opening. Make three single crochets in each corner. Fasten off and weave in ends.

Attach buttons, put in pillow and enjoy!

www.deramores.com/blog-awards: This blog entry is my submission to the Deramores Blog Awards 2014. Deramores is the UK’s number one online retailer of knitting and crochet supplies. 

Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style: A flat circle

Missed a lesson? You can find all the previous lessons over here!

For today's tutorial I assume you have read both tutorials about increasing and Tunisian crochet in the round. Please make sure you have read it!

How to crochet a flat circle?

Once upon a time I made a hat with Tunisian crochet. Actually, I just improves the whole thing! I could not find a hat to my taste and Ravelry has very little on Tunisian projectes... And if there were Tunisian patterns they eventually needed sewing parts together (yugh) or you'd need to start at the brim with a whole lot of chain stitches (I actually find it still very difficult to not twist my stitches before joining them into a circle).
There was no pattern for starting a top-down hat.

And now there is!

I thought long and hard, studied my hat and came up with a way to make a top-down hat.

I now present you a little tutorial on making a flat circle as a start for a hat!

Make a slipknot

Ch 3, slip stitch in first ch to close the circle. Make 6 single crochets in the circle.

Insert your hook in the first stitch for your first Tunisian stitch, and insert your hook in between the stitch you just worked in (the first st) and the second stitch. The left arrow indicates the first single crochet and the right arrow indicates the spot in between stitches.

This is how it will look! You begin working your first round of real Tunisian stitches by working into the first loop of the round.

Want to practice? I made a hat to wear with my Chunky "Knitted" Cowl!

Pattern: "Knitted" Slouchy hat

*Click here for the printerfriendly version!*     *Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie!*

General information

This pattern is written in US Crochet terms.

Skill level: Intermediate

Special Stitches

Foundation row

Forward pass: Insert hook into back bump of first stitch, yo, pull up loop, leave loop on hook. Repeat for all chain stitches

Return pass: Ch1, * yo, pull through 2 loops*, repeat between ** until you have one loop left on hook

Tunisian Knit Stitch (TKS)

Forward pass: * Insert hook between both front vertical and back vertical bar from front right to back left, yo, pull up loop*, repeat between ** until the last stitch. For the last stitch, insert hook between left loop plus back bump and most right loop (this means you will have the most left loop and the back bump on the left side of your hook and the most right loop on the right side of your hook), yo, pull up loop.

Return pass: Ch1, *yo, pull through 2 loops*, repeat between ** until you have one loop left on hook.

Finishing row

* Insert hook in between both front vertical and back vertical bar from front right to back left, yo, make a slip stitch (1 loop on hook)*, repeat between ** until you have worked your way to the end of the row.

Increasing: Make your stitch, and make an increase in between the stitch you just made and the next stitch.

Working with a double ended hook: Make two balls of your yarn, make a forward pass with one end of the hook until you have so many stitches on your hook that the circle starts to pull, turn your hook, attach the second ball and start a return pass until you have 2-3 loops left. Turn again, work your forward pass etc.

Camel stitch: start with making a round with single crochet, at the second round insert hook from back to front, around stitch post, and front to back, yoh, pull through stitch (two loops on hook), yoh, pull through both loops

Abbreviations

Ch: chain (yoh, pull through)

Sl st: slip stitch (insert hook in stitch, yoh and pull through stitch and loop on hook)

Sc: single crochet (insert hook in stitch, yoh, pull through stitch (two loops on hook), yoh and pull through both loops)

Dc: double crochet (yoh, insert hook in stitch, yoh, pull through stitch, *yoh, pull through two loops* two times)

Notes

Yarn is held double throughout the pattern.

The pattern is written for an almost 7” diameter hat (top circle) which is a small womans hat. Adjust gauge or add rounds if you want it bigger or smaller.

Materials

Double sided Tunisian crochet hook  11.5 mm or P and a 10 mm normal crochet hook

Yarn: Wibra Saskia in pink and purple 

Pattern

When crocheting this hat, do not turn your work. The hat is worked in a spiral throughout the pattern.

 

Chain 3, sl st to first st to make a closed circle.

Round 1: Ch1, sc 6 times into circle, close round with a sl st into first st.

You will be working in a spiral, so make sure you mark your first st, and reposition the marker after each round.

Round 2: Ch1 (this ch st is the only ch you have to make because after this you will be working in a spiral and you will always have enough loops on your hook), *pull up a loop in first sc, pull up loop in between two sc*, repeat between ** until end of round. You will have 12 vertical bars at the end of the round. 

Round 3: *TKS in first st, increase directly next to this st, TKS in next st*, repeat between ** until end of round (18 TKS)

Round 4: *TKS in first st, increase next to this st, TKS in next two st*, repeat between ** until end of round (24 TKS)

Round 5: *TKS in first st, increase next to this st, TKS in next three st*, repeat between ** until end of round (30 TKS)

Round 6: *TKS in first st, increase next to this st, TKS in next four st*, repeat between ** until end of round (36 TKS)

You will have a circle which will measure approximately 6.75”-7” from side to side. This will fit a small women’s head with a little bit of negative ease

After this your circle will measure about 6.75-7” at its widest point. This is a small women’s size with a little bit of negative ease. If you want it bigger, add one round.

After increasing you will add rounds without increasing to give the hat length. If you want a beanie hat make it as long until it reaches the top of your ears. Adding more rounds will give you more slouch. Continue until your hat is long enough.

Switch to your normal crochet hook (10 mm) and make a round of single crochet. After this round you will start the brim of the hat and make camel stitches (see “stitches”). If your brim is wide enough (about 1.5”- 2”) make one round with slip stitches whilst inserting the hook like you did with the camel stitch.

Fasten off, weave in ends!

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Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style: Tunisian Lace

Missed a lesson? Here you can find all previous lessons from the course "Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style!"

As with normal crochet, you can make lace with Tunisian crochet! It is actually the same technique as used in knitting. You make yarn overs!

It is very easy, and you could even grab a stitch dictionary, pick a lace pattern and use it to create a Tunisian lace pattern. Just use the Tunisian Knit Stitch and yarn overs!

The yarnovers are only made during a forward pass and after you made an item you should treat your work the same as lace knitted items. It really needs a blocking treatment to let the lace pattern shine.

How does it work?

 Make a foundation row.

Start a forward pass.

On an indicated spot for an open space, make a yarn over and skip the vertical bar where you would normally make a stitch.

Work your forward pass as you would normally do.

On the return pass treat your yarn over as a loop.

Finish your row.

That's all there is to make Tunisian Lace! Here is a nice pattern to practice your yarnovers!

Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style: Increasing and Decreasing

Are you still as hyped about Tunisian crochet as I am? Three more lessons to go!
Here are the previous lessons!

In this tutorial I want to show you how to increase and decrease. In this way you can shape your work and go beyond squares and rectangles.

Increasing

 

Here I prepared a nice pink swatch,

  

I picked up four stitches with the Tunisian Simple Stitch on the forward pass. If you need to increase you aren't going to insert your needle like you would do behind a vertical bar, but you are going to insert them in between two vertical bars from the front of your work to the back of your work. This means you will have picked up a stitch, insert your hook between vertical bars and pick up the next stitch like you would normally do.

 

Here I inserted my hook in between the vertical bars from front to back.

 

And here I already continued with the next stitch. You can see my increase as it leaves a bit of a gap in between normal stitches.

It's easy as that! This is how you increase.

Decreasing

There are two ways of decreasing: somewhere in the middle of your work (internally) or either on the left side or right side (externally). Decreasing internally can be used in darts and decreasing externally could be used for arm holes, if you know what I mean. I am going to show you both ways.

Here I am going to decrease internally. I am going to decrease over 2 stitches with the Tunisian Simple Stitch. I insert my hook behind my first loop and behind my second loop to crochet them together.

 

Yarn over and pull through. My two stitches have now become one!

 

Here is a bit more close up view, you see how the stitches make a inverted V shape.

 

Now, if I want to decrease on the most right side of my work, I am going to use the slip stitch to "make and forget" the stitch. I cannot pick it up on a return pass or on the following forward pass.

 Insert the hook like you would normally do for the Tunisian Simple Stitch.

 

Yarn over, and pull through both vertical bar and loop on hook. Then you have made a slip stitch, but you will have only one loop on your hook instead of two. You have decreased one stitch.

 

Here I decreased two stitches on the right side and then I picked up my stitches in a normal TSS way.

 

Here I have two stitches left on the right side of my work. If I want to decrease on that side I am going to do something very simple. Just not working them!

 

I just going to start my return pass and work my loops off of my hook. This is how you decrease stitches on the right side!

I hope you liked this tutorial. Next week there will be a pattern to practice a new technique!

Learn to Crochet Tunisian Style: In the Round with Colour Changes

Missed a lesson? Here you can find the whole Tunisian crochet course!

Last week I showed you how to crochet in the round and make the left cozy. This week I am going to show you how to change colours and get a striped cozy!
This tutorial will be mostly the same as last week, but I will show you how to change yarns and how to deal with all those ends. If you want stripes of a single colour for the background and the vertical bars, make sure you have two balls of the same colour.

No ebook this time! This is a real tutorial.

 Pick colours that you like and look good together. I am going to use two colours in my stripes so I chose some colours form the  colour combination board on Pinterest. I am using Rowan cotton and a double ended hook size 6 mm. And a stitchmarker.

 Pick your glass jar for your cozy.

 

Make a chain that fits around your jar, sl st to close and be careful not to twist your stitches.

 

Mark your first stitch.

Pick up stitches like you would do for the foundation forward pass.

 If you have enough stitches on your needle, just flip it over and slide your work to the left, like you did last week!

 

Pick your colour for the return pass and pull through two loops.

 

Like this

Keep repeating this step until you have about four stitches left.

Flip it over!

 

Slide to the left, and go about with a forward pass again!

 

With this cozy I used the Tunisian Simple Stitch again, so when I arrive at my first loop I insert my hook from right to left underneath the front vertical bar and happily pick up more loops. And I reposition my stitchmarker. Make a stripe as wide as you like. Just keep on working those loops on your hook and off your hook.

 

 

But! I want to change colours. So I stop before my first stitch of the round I just made.

 

Pick two (or one, if you are making single colour stripes, make sure you have two balls of that colour).

 

Insert your hook in the first stitch, wrap your yarn over your hook for the forward pass in your new colour and pick up a loop.

 

 

Continue picking up loops with your new colour until you have enough stitches on your hook.

 

If you flip your work over to start a return pass, you need to change your colour in this pass as well. Finish your last two loops of your old forward pass colour.

 

Wrap your new return pass colour and pull through those two loops.

 

Now you can go on and make your return passes with your new colour!

 

Go on like this, make more stripes if you want to! The only downside is that you will have a shift in colours, the same as you would have with making a striped tube with single crochet stitches. I really do not know any solution for this, sorry!

To make your last finishing round you need to stop again in the stitch before your first stitch of that round. On the return pass keep working your loops off the hook until you have one loop left.

With your forward pass colour start making slip stitches along the round for the closing round and putting your hook into the stitches the TSS way. This method actually works better than the method I showed you last week!

 

And voila! Done! Enjoy your cozy!