Stockinette Knitting Stitch

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Stockinette Knitting Stitch

Stockinette Knitting Stitch

Tunisian Crochet is often seen as a combination of knitting and crochet and certainly has similarities with both crafts. The stitches are picked up along the row, right to left, and kept on the hook. Each row is then completed by using a “return row”, where the loops are secured into the fabric. The simplest stitch patterns can be worked over any multiple of stitches.

Tunisian Crochet Base Row

  1. Make a chain of the number of stitches required, plus one. Starting in the second chain from the hook, pick up a loop as follows:
  2. Insert the hook into the chain, wrap the yarn around the hook, and pull the hook back through the chain, leaving the yarn on the hook. Repeat this into every change along the row. (Fig 1)

Tunisian Crochet Return Row

  1. Wrap the yarn around the hook, and pull it back through the first loop on the hook.
  2. Wrap the yarn around the hook, and pull it back through two loops on the hook (thus reducing the total number of stitches on the hook by one). Repeat this all of the way along the row. You will be left with just one loop on the hook. (Fig 2)

You will see that the row worked has a vertical bar on every stitch. This is used for the basic Tunisian stitch.

Tunisian Simple Stitch (TSS)

  1. Insert your hook the the vertical bar, so that the end of the hook comes out still at the front of the work.
  2. Wrap the yarn around the hook and bring the hook back through, leaving the loop on the hook. (Fig 3).
  3. When you get to the last stitch of the row, insert the hook into the loop at the base of the end stitch.
  4. Then work the return row (as above).

It is also possible to work Tunisian Crochet so that it looks like knitted stocking (stockinette) stitch. (Fig 4)