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 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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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Look closely at your tunisian afghan/square...do you see that each stitch has 4 tiny holes, one at each corner? Much like an aida cloth would for doing counted cross stitch.

By using a tapestry needle you can go right into these tiny openings without doing damage to your crochet.

You should do a run of half cross stitches and then reverse direction to complete the cross stitches. This is much better than doing one complete cross stitch at a time.

You have inspired me on what I want to blog about next. Thanks!

I decided to give this a try. It didn't look great to start with, but then I had a bedtime epiphany (as I so often do!) I was thinking how great it was to be horizontal, and it then occurred to me that I had not paid enough attention to the instructions, which said to insert the hook in the VERTICAL bar - Doh!

So, I tried again and it looked a lot better (not surprising). I am now incorporating the technique in to the cardi that I'm making (which is pretty 'free form', as I couldn't find a pattern I liked!).

I like the double tunisian stitch - it is a bit easier to work each row in to. Could be just me...

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Well I know it is late at night but I thought you were going to say you were scrumbling and then you caught me totally unawares with the double tunisian.

I have come to realize that we need all the forums, blogs, and videos, in addition to the books and magazines because there is so much to do with a hook and a bit of yarn.

I did the baby burp pads with crochet for awhile. But then someone took my idea and made up some in black and I never made any more. I kinda like the 'easter egg' colors for a baby myself.

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Exactly. Glad to know I'm not alone in feeling the way I do about it.

A friend from church gave me a pattern to try in Tunisian, however, I haven't been able to find the hook. They don't have it at my local Joann's, Michael's, or Walmart. Where did you find your hooks?

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My hooks are from way back when. You're right; they are hard to find. Google found some for sale on eBay or stitchdiva.com has large size wooden hooks. There are others, too. Just Google.

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Also when searching, look for afghan hooks. That might make it easier.

Try Annie's Attic. They have a set of Tunisian hooks and a booklet to help you with learning various stitches, and it includes patterns. It has 4 different hooks and is under twenty bucks. It's called "Getting Started With Easy Tunisian Crochet"

I have tried this technique. It's fun for a "switch" now and then. I designed some little Christmas sacks I cross-stitched on...kind of cute.

I have also been Googling for Tunisian/Afgphan hooks sold in the US or Canada. It seems that Australia and the UK can get K,L,M,N sized hooks but outside of super (and I do mean super) expen$ive handmade wooden hooks, I have come up with nothing closer to home. I did not find the kit at Annie's Attic, sadly. Can you post a link?

I am finding that playing around with my size J (6.0 mm) hook and WW yarn that double crochet (TDS) the fabric is not stiff like TSS. Also there are books out there that have lots of stitches. Being laid off I can't just snap them up or pay $30 for one hook.

I have some DK weight yarn I am going to mess around with next.

A new Mary Maxim catalog, arrived yesterday, lists a circular double-ended hook. No picture, but I assume it's like a circular knitting needle, a hook attached to a flexible cord attached to a second hook. It was long, too. It would make wide projects and circular projects more easily doable. See Tips and Tricks for Larisa Walk's circular afghan/tunisian stitch.

Ah, here the hook is online, 40" long, sizes G to K. http://www.marymaxim.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_10001_10054_1...

The Tips and Tricks entry is http://crochetme.com/tips/tunisian-crochet-round

"Seven days without crochet makes one weak"
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I actually prefer that circular hook for tunisian/afghan stitch. It holds an entire afghan on there. Which is nice if you think about doing one in a solid color and embroidering a picture on it when you are done.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one that thinks tunisian makes for a rather stiff fabric. I said that in one group and a woman practically started foaming at the mouth about how wrong I was. But then, she uses a size L or M hook and that would tend to make it a bit less stiff.

I've been wandering around the crochetme site for hours - this is my first time here....
My first attempt at tunisian was a baby blanket for a coworker - I bought the Annie's Attic Easy Tunisian Set that comes with L, M, N and P hooks and 7 skeins of pink yarn and just kept on going 'til I used 6 1/2 then made up a shell stitch edge with the last half skein.

I was thrilled with the results and now want to find a simple plus-size sweater pattern that I can use these hooks for. I saw double ended crochet hooks in a local store and would love it if you could direct me to a how-to link for using them.
Is there such an animal for a self-taught beginner?
I gave up on trying to teach myself to KNIT, that was a lost cause!