For this tutorial you're going to need your selected yarn I'm using a chunky
yarn today just because I have a larger crochet hook and this particular
crochet hook is specifically designed to do Tunisian crochet and this is a six
millimeter hook I got this one out of simply crochet mag and last month but
and you can get them online and you are also going to need a pair of scissors
the reason you need a longer crochet hook will become apparent shortly but
basically we're going to actually collect a lot of the stitches onto this
hook itself so what you want to do first of all is create your slipknot in which
ever way that you prefer and insert your hook you then want to start off by
chaining however many chains you want to begin with this will just depend on your
pattern just for a sample size I'm going to chain 15 so it's one two three four
five and if you want to pause the video and chain your desired length and then
come back to me once you've done your chain and then I shall show you what to
do for your next round so once you've done your chain you're then going to
work your way back along this chain to start building your rows and what you
want to do is you want to turn the chain so that you have the V's facing up
towards you so when you put your hook in you're actually going to have what looks
like two loops on the hook just like that rather than just one loop and that
just makes the foundation row more secure so what you do here is you grab
the yarn and you pull it through and you leave it on the hook so then you go to
the next stitch you insert your hook you look like you have two loops on
the hook so it's the V and then grab the yarn and pull it through and leave that on
the hook and this is what you're going to do all the way along this foundation
chain so just inserting the hook yarn over and pull through so i'm going to
get you to pause the video work your way along your length and meet me back once
you've finished this is what my work looks like once I've gone along the
foundation row and it actually looks a lot like knitting and so it might be
that they end up quite bunched up so you just want to pull them out
however you feel comfortable so what we're going to do now is work our way
back so that we can build another row and this is called the return pass so
what you want to do is grip onto the end of your work just here and then you're
going to grab the yarn and just pull it through that first loop on the hook and
you'll notice that it looks like it hangs off just here that is completely
normal you then grab the yarn and you're going to pull it through two loops on
the hook just like so and that's what you're going to do for the rest and the
row so for the first one you pull through one and then for the next one's
you pull through two loops on the hook so yarn over and pull through two loops
yarn over and pull through two loops work your way nice and slowly just while
you're learning and it will get easier as you and get more experienced but what
you'll see is that the work starts to hang off the end here as you work your
way along and the row so work your way to your last stitch and I'll show you
how to work back the opposite way again okay so I'm now on my last stitch and
this is what my works looking like I'm left with two loops on the hook and I'm
just going to yarn over all through both of those loops on the
hook and you'll end up with one on the hook just here so we're now going to
work the simple Tunisian stitch back across this way and what we want to do
here is can you see these and posts at the front we're going to be working
underneath those posts so you want to insert your hook onto that front post
there and then grab the yarn and pull it through that post and you'll end up with
two stitches on your hook you then move to the next one so insert underneath and
grab the yarn and pull it through three loops on the hook and you're just going
to work your way all the way along your work doing this same technique so pause
the video work your way to the end and I shall show you what to do next so now
I'm at the end of my row it's always worth counting that you have the same
amount of stitches but you're simply going to repeat that return pass that we
did that first of all so it's grabbing the yarn and pulling through that very
first loop just to begin with so just to begin with pull through one and then
grab the yarn and pull through two loops and grab the yarn and pull through two
and repeat that all the way along to the very end so do that and I shall just
show you again how to do the simple stitch once you're at the end of this
row you'll see that the original rows look quite solid and then when you pull
your work apart it looks gapi here that's because we're going to and pull
our stitches down in order to work the the next row so again like before you're
going to have one loop on your hook you're going to come round this front
post here grab the yarn and pull it through
and then go under the next post and grab the yarn and pull it through and
continue in that way all the way along and you just continue with those two
rows until you get to the length of the project that you want
whether you're making a square or a long piece I'm going to do another video
which I'll link at the end of this one to show you how to change colors and
finish off your work