Tunisian crochet is often considered the combination of crochet and knitting. This is because it uses a crochet hook, but requires you to hold all of your stitches (or loops) on the hook in the same way you do as you knit. For this reason, you’ll need a long crochet hook or a hook with a cable attachment to accommodate the number of stitches in your Tunisian crochet project. We recommend our radiant interchangeable crochet hooks.

How do you Tunisian crochet?

Standard crochet, when worked in rows, requires you to turn your work as you work back and forth. Tunisian crochet involves a forward pass and a return pass where the work is never turned, and you are looking at the Right Side (RS) of your project the entire time. The forward pass and return pass are counted as one row.

Begin with a Setup Row: For a typical setup row, chain the appropriate number of stitches, insert your hook into the second chain from hook, yarn over and pull up a loop, leave that loop on the hook, and *insert your hook into the next chain, yarn over, and pull up a loop, leave that loop on the hook and repeat from * across until you have a length of loops on your hook.

Then work a standard return pass: yarn over, and pull through one loop, *yarn over and pull through two loops; repeat from * until 1 loop remains on the hook.

Forward pass (FwP): The forward pass is worked right to left for right-handed crocheters or left to right for left-handed crocheters and is the process of accumulating the loops on the hook. The forward pass is often where the stitch pattern is established and it includes a variety of stitches.

Return pass (RetP): The return pass is worked left to right for right-handed crocheters or right to left for left-handed crocheters and is the process of working loops off of the hook after the forward pass.

In a standard return pass, once all the stitches are on the hook, yarn over, and pull through one loop, *yarn over, pull through 2 loops. Repeat from * across until one loop remains on the hook. Consult your pattern’s instructions for a non-standard return pass.

Setup Row

Insert your hook into the second chain from hook, yarn over and pull up a loop, leave that loop on the hook

*Insert your hook into the next chain, yarn over, and pull up a loop, leave that loop on the hook and repeat from * across the row until you have a length of loops on your hook