Tunisian Double Crochet
Mary Beth TempleDescription
In this video, Mary Beth Temple demonstrates how to crochet the Tunisian Double Crochet stitch. This stitch pattern is not commonly worked in rows, but is an important stitch to learn as it is an important component of many of many other more advanced Tunisian stitch patterns.
This stitch pattern can be started by making any number of stitches, and working a forward pass and return pass of the Tunisian Simple stitch foundation row.
Forward pass: Mary Beth begins by chaining 3 for a beginning chain (much like regular double crochet), but notes that you could alternatively chain 2 if you prefer a shorter beginning chain. *She makes a yarn-over, then inserts the hook from right to left (or left to right for left-handed crocheters) under the first vertical bar, makes another yo, then draws that loop through the vertical bar. She then makes a yo and draws through two of the loops on the hook (there are now two loops on the hook). Mark Beth then repeats the same steps from * working through the next vertical bar (there are now three loops on the hook). This same sequence is repeated across the row, adding one loop to the hook each time, until each of the vertical bars have been worked. Tip: On the very last vertical bar of the row, Mary Beth inserts her hook under the vertical bar as well as the vertical loop right behind it, for a neater edge.
Return pass (This is worked the same as the return pass for the Tunisian Simple Stitch): yo, and pull through one loop on the hook, *yo and pull through two loops, repeat from * across until only one loop remains on the hook.
Repeat Forward pass and return pass for pattern.
Hi guys, Mary Beth Temple here. And in this video, we're going to learn how to make the Tunisian double crochet. Now, Tunisian double crochet is not a stitch that you'll often see worked in rows the way I'm going to do it here. Um But it is a great stitch to have in your bag of tricks and you're going to need it as we go through our Tunisian journey and learn some more adventurous stitches. So I'm going to chain three at the start of my row just like you might for a regular double crochet row. Now, I still have a forward pass and a return pass like every Tunisian stitch ever. So for the forward pass, I'm gonna yarn over, I'm going to put my hook right to left through the first vertical bar, yarn over and draw up a loop. I have three loops on my hook like I would for a regular double, I'm gonna yarn over, draw through two and I'm going to stop because remember when we're doing a Tunisian forward pass, we're putting loops on the hook. And also you'll notice I said the first vertical bar and normally for the plane stitches, we say skip the first vertical bar, but there kind of isn't a vertical bar for this one because I need that chain stitch to get my hook up to the height where I need it. You might also want to chain two here instead of three that's going to be up to your individual gauge. So let's move across the row. We're going to yarn over, insert our hook right to left through the vertical bar. Like we're making a TSS yarn over and draw up a loop, yarn overdraw through two. You'll notice. Now I have three loops on my hook and I'm going to do this all the way across because forward pass, putting loops on the hook, yarn over, insert it right to left through the bar, yarn over, draw up a loop. You're an overdraw through two. Now there's another one on my, on my hook. We're gonna do this till we get to the bitter end. And then we're going to use a standard return and you all know I'm sure, but a standard return is yarn over, draw through one or chain one depending on how you like to say that in your head and then yarn overdraw through two and yarn overdraw through two until only one loop remains. Now, when I get to my end of my forward pass, I have some choices here. I can go through just the vertical bar or I could go under two at the end and because this is my edge, I think I'm going to go under two. So I'm going under that vertical bar and also the stitch behind again. If you've watched any of our other wonderful Tunisian videos, you know that, that gives you a tighter edge on the left hand side. So here are all my loops on my hook. 123456789, 10, 11, 12 13 is what I did. So my standard return yarn overdraw through one or chain one, you an overdraw through two, you overdraw through two repeatedly until only one loop remains. Here's my last two loops. Here are an overdraw through two and there are my Tunisian doubles. And once again, generally speaking, this is not a stitch. You're gonna make a whole project in, but it's a terrific thing to know if you're going to go on in your Tunisian adventure and learn some more advanced stitches.
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