About The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Tunisian Crochet

August 26, 2012 by crochetkim | 2 Comments

Roger from the Tunisian Crochet YahooGroup recently sent an email to the group about The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Tunisian Crochet and I’m copying it here with his permission.

“This is a terrific, very informative book that should be in everyone’s library, regardless of skill level. Lots of pictures and terrific explanations. The reverse stitch substitutes wonderfully for Tunisian purl (which I’ve never liked), and will combine with cable stitches to produce a look very similar to knitting. Of course, I’m going to get Kim’s cable book when it comes out in August! Meanwhile do order Kim’s “Beginner’s” book-everyone can benefit from a new and very thorough perspective on Tunisian.”

Although I’ve been discussing the projects in my new Tunisian Cables book of late, I want to be certain to give the Beginner’s book its “due”.

This book is jam-packed with a huge amount of information. Information you won’t typically find in project-only books. The entire first half of the book includes bucket loads of information about stitches, seaming, color changing, increasing, decreasing, etc. If you’ve ever wondered how to do these finishing techniques with Tunisian crochet, the book includes this and more.

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.

This book includes more information than I’ve ever seen on Tunisian crochet, all in one place. I encourage you to check it out because I put just about every bit of knowledge of Tunisian crochet I’ve learned in the past decade into this book for you. Enjoy!

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