Okay, so I keep reading about tunisian crochet, and though I haven't had a chance to try it out yet (it's what I'm planning to use for my next project, as soon as I finish the one I'm on right now), I would like to start a topic so that anyone with anything related to tunisian crochet can find it in one spot. Hopefully, there are others out there who are intriqued by what I like to call the hybrid. Thanks everyone!
So, I started crochet back in high school because I hated trying to learn knitting. And then when I moved to NY, I took my beloved hooks with me, but only worked on a leftovers afghan every time fall came around. And so it has been for the past three ye
Would like to learn it also. What I have seen made by a lady in town it looks fairly simple and it also looks like it uses a lot of yarn, but I intend to learn after the holidays. Let know how you trun out with it.
I like crochet, and loom knitting with provo. I now have a picture of me on file. I hope soon to make a few pics of some things that I have made. I'm slow at computers, but I am learning. I have gotten a bit burned out here lately, but keep coming back to
I like tunisian as far as I've gone with it, a hot pad, a dishcloth, but it produced a very stiff fabric with no drape.
I wonder if using a larger hook would soften it up? No, I haven't tried that.
update!! it's my experience that it was a lot faster to make, but it does use more yarn. But now that I think about it the scarf that i made didn't have much drape, even after steam blocking, which will usually loosen it up. I think tunisian follows knitting's tension rules as opposed to crochet. The next project I do I'll try using a larger hook as well and see how that works.
I took a picture of my friend and her new scarf(which she loved!), so I'll see if I can post it, too. I made a Harry Potter-esque scarf, with the Gryffindor colors, and it turned out really well.
I am working in a dischcloth, haven't finished it yet. It is slow go for me, since it is my first time,I just get so aggreviated that it is taking me so long to learn this. Hope I faster as I go.
Well I finished the dishcloth, but forgot to take a picture of ot before I gave it as a gift. I missed up on the first line and didn't notice it until I got through with it, but I didn't have the patience to atke it all out and correct the mistake, I was getting impatient with it. I do believe I'll do more next time try to remeber to post a photo of it. I was much better than having to constantly look at a pattern, but would like to try a different pattern this time instead of just the basic one.
http://yoursandi.blogspot.com
I have made a few afghans with it. I embroider a picture on it when I'm done. If you can do counted cross stitch you will love it.
I saw a purse made with it that I liked. It was long and tubular--they made one large motif and rolled it up and put in a zipper to close it. They had to make two round ends. I'm not sure how to tunisan in the round. Interesting concept. I would probably cheat and do the ends in single crochet.
I know some women that use very large hooks and the tunisan is a lot softer that way. They manage to get it to look lacey by doing that.
"Seven days without crochet makes one weak"
I found some patterns for the afgan stitch on the search engine. I typed in afgan stitch, and there I found the tunsian stitch as well. There are a lot of sites out there with free patterns. Just thought I'd post it.
Interesting that you would compare it to knitting.
Now that you've tried the basic version of tunisian(afghan stitch) perhaps you would like to try the Tunisian Purl Stitch, or the Tunisian Stockinette Stitch, and there is at least one more variant of these that I am currently aware of.
They all use the afghan hook and maybe the hook is why we call it crochet and not knit.
"They all use the afghan hook and maybe the hook is why we call it crochet and not knit."
Interesting observation. Some knitting uses/used hooks, so it certainly could be a knitting form.
Hello Pauline! I was just reading that Tunisian combines the techniques of knitting and crochet and may well lead us to believe that crochet, knitting, and tunisian all come from the same place...Arabia(?). I don't really know as it seriously predates my birth(TG).
I also read somewhere that the first knitting needles had a hook on one end.
Blushing really big now. I read a lot.
would love to try. could you email me with how to's or send a web posti with directions? shepherdchild@bellsouth.net
Hmmm not sure what happened with the picture I posted.
I have heard that youtube has a lady on there that does video tutorials on all the stitches, including tunisian.
I am sure that someone has a blog on it by now...such as myself! Yes, I am blushing again.
I started a tutorial on tunisian. It has pictures and I tried to answer all the usual questions and make it as easy as I could for a beginner to be able to work this awesome stitch.
http://yoursandi.blogspot.com This is one of the afghans I made using tunisian or afghan stitch as it is also known. The oarnge part was done in the afghan stitch. The blue part was with a regular crochet hook. I made up the squares in tunisian(afghan stitch) and embroidered the cars on.
Any good sites dealing with how to cross stitch after you finish your project? I have tried to cross stitch just by looking at a filet pattern, but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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