New Book: Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Tunisian Crochet

June 30, 2012 by crochetkim | 3 Comments

Please take a look at my newest book on Tunisian crochet. The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Tunisian Crochet, published by Leisure Arts.

I was asked this morning about what Tunisian crochet stitches were included. After thinking about it, I decided to write a list of everything the book teaches in Tunisian crochet. There are things in this book not covered in any other book in my library and certainly not altogether in one place. So, here we go:

Stitches used throughout the book in tutorials and/or projects:

Foundation
Tunisian Simple Stitch
Tunisian Knit Stitch
Tunisian Purl Stitch
Tunisian Reverse Stitch
Tunisian Extended Stitch
Binding off in different stitches
Tunisian Drop Stitch
Reverse single crochet
Tunisian slipped stitch

Techniques

Right- and left-leaning decreases
Increasing
Adding new ball of yarn or changing color
2-color and 3-color techniques
Seaming, row-to-row
Seaming, stitch-to-stitch
Tips on gauge, counting rows and loose stitches
Making a tassel
Tutorial for hand felting
Short rows

Stitch patterns

Stockinette
Seed Stitch
Slip Stitch rib
Tunisian rib
6-stitch left-leaning cable
Mitered angle
The bag stitch pattern is popular in hand-knitting, but I can’t remember the name now (I’m sure it will come to me later)

And, then it applies the things learned to the 9 projects, which are presented in the book in an appropriate order for learning. They move on in an order which makes it fun and easy to learn.

In the coming days, I hope to review the projects individually here, but for a preview, you can jump over to the Leisure Arts site to see photos of them. Enjoy!

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