Tunisian Crochet for Beginners: Master 12 Basic Stitches and Make Your First Project

Are you ready to dive into the wonderful world of Tunisian crochet? This Crochet Along (CAL) has been specially designed to introduce you to the fundamental techniques of Tunisian crochet. Over the course of this CAL, you’ll master 12 of the most common and essential stitches, creating beautiful 12″ squares with each new technique.

Each week, we’ll guide you through 3 different stitches, helping you build confidence and skill as you go. There will be photo and video tutorials to help get you through each square.

 

By the end of the CAL, you’ll have 12 stunning squares that can be joined together to form a gorgeous patchwork blanket. We’ll also provide you with creative ideas for joining the squares and adding a lovely border to complete your masterpiece.

This CAL is perfect for using up your yarn stash or those colorful scraps you’ve been saving. Not only will you learn a new and versatile crochet technique, but you’ll also have a beautiful blanket to keep, gift, or donate once you’re finished.

This CAL was originally released in 2021 with the green and blue version, but I have decided to re-work it in pinks, yellows, greens and maybe some browns too. So I am inviting you to work up one with me!

Join us on this exciting journey and transform your crochet skills with Tunisian crochet. Let’s get started!

 HOW IT WORKS:

• Work through each of the squares listed below as they become available. Another square will be added to the post below each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. There are video tutorials to help you out too!
• I will show you what border I put around each square, then I will share how I joined the squares and the border.

NOTE

• If you cannot wait for the squares to be released and would like to get them all in one go a bundle is available for $6 using the button below. It includes all of the square patterns in both written and photo tutorials and links to the videos. This works out at only $0.46 per pattern!

ADDITIONAL HELP AND SUPPORT

If you would like additional help and support then please join our FB Community group by clicking the button below.  Be sure to answer the 3 simple joining questions.

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You can sign up to my Events and CALs email. This is different from our standard newsletter which you can sign up to by clicking the button below! The events and cals email is sent daily or whenever a pattern is released during an event that I host or participate in. 

Materials List for the Learn to Tunisian Crochet CAL:

MATERIALS LIST:

Note: this list contains affiliate links at no extra cost to you!

For the Blue and Green Version I used:

Worsted/Aran/#4 weight yarn–Brava Worsted by Knit Picks in Cornflower, Tidepool, Alfalfa, and mint.  I was able to get 2 squares out of each skein. As there are 12 squares, if you are using the same yarn, you will need 3 of each.  I also used Brava Worsted Speckle in Tidal for borders and joining.

You can find Brava Worsted at WeCrochet it is 100% acrylic, worsted (#4 weight) and contains 218 yards per 100g skein. You can also machine wash and dry it.

For the Pink, Yellow and Green version I used:

Paintbox Simply Aran in shades 253, 221, and 224

I originally used a 6.5mm Tunisian hook from Furls. Please note that Furls they no longer sell tunisian crochet hooks. I also used one from Love To Crochet – a set I bought on Amazon.

For the pink and yellow version I am using a wooden set from Knit Pro found on Amazon.

Additionally, you will need:

FIRST THINGS FIRST…

If this is your first dip of the hook into Tunisian Crochet I have some blog posts that you will want to read. They help you to get to grips with some of the basics e.g. how patterns are written, the hooks, what a return pass is etc. I have broken them down into 3 bite sized blog posts.

Please do not get too overwhelmed with it all! Each square has a step by step video tutorial to help you work through each stitch pattern. 

Introductions Part 1: To check out what to expect from a written Tunisian Crochet pattern and a little bit about Tunisian Crochet hooks click here.

Part 2: Click here to learn more about how Tunisian Crochet works, the stitch abbreviations yarn and hook sizing, some info about curling and, foundation rows, forward and return passes and edge stitches.

Intoduction Part 3: To learn more about  how to identify bars, how to bind off, and some helpful hints and tips click here!  

For a quick video guide introducting you to the basics of working Tunisian Crochet click the video below. This video covers most of the practicalities of what you need. However, you may miss out on a couple of tip and tricks and some extra information if you don’t read the blog posts above!

Once you have that under your belt, you can check back here and work through each square.

The Tunisian Crochet Squares:

If you are finding this Learn to Tunisian Crochet CAL after the event has started I do recommend that you work through these squares in order. It will help to build your confidence and make the learning these 12 Tunisian Crochet stitches easier!

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