Tunisian Leaf Stitch
Mary Beth TempleDescription
In this video, Mary Beth Temple demonstrates how to crochet the Tunisian Leaf stitch. This stitch pattern is worked onto a background of Tunisian Simple Stitch by working some Tunisian Double Crochet stitches in some specific places to create the leaf motif. Leaves can be placed anywhere you choose within the fabric.
On the forward pass, Mary Beth pulls up loops from the vertical bars and places them on her hook until she reaches the location where she intends to place the leaf motif (so far this is just like a regular forward pass in the Tunisian Simple Stitch pattern).
Once she reaches the place where she wants to add the leaf, she makes a Tunisian DC into the bar that is 1 row down and 2 stitches before the working bar*. She makes a second Tunisian DC two rows down, and 1 stitch before the working bar. A third Tunisian DC is made 3 rows below the working bar. This is the center of the leaf. She then continues with a Tunisian DC that is 2 rows below and 1 row after the working bar, followed with a Tunisian DC that is 1 row below and 2 bars after the working bar. There are now 5 Tunisian DC in a row on the hook. Mary Beth then makes a yo and draws through all five of those DC loops. This allows the stitch count to remain consistent.
To continue, you will need to skip the working bar (because the decrease that was just made will replace that working bar), and continue working in Tunisian Simple Stitch across to the end of the row.
*Note: the “working bar” referred to above, is the bar that would be considered the next bar to work into if we were continuing in the Tunisian Simple Stitch pattern.
After completing the forward pass, you will need to work a standard return pass (as 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.
This is such a beautiful little detail that is so fun to incorporate into your own designs.
How do you plan to use this stitch? Let us know in the comments below!
Hi, guys, I'm Mary Beth Temple and I'm here today to teach you how to make this Tunisian leaf stitch. This is a really cool stitch. You can sort of scatter it amongst your work. You could do a row of it for an embellishment, you could do alternating the way I did it here. But the background is Tunisian simple stitch, which is really easy. All we're going to do in the foreground is place some Tunisian doubles in some interesting places. So let me switch over to my sample, which I have done here. Now again, I'm not showing you a particular pattern. I'm just showing you how to make the stitch in general. So you will, of course, follow your pattern to get the exact uh stitch count for where you want to be. So, all I'm going to do right now, I'm going to uh make a couple of Tunisian simple stitches to get across. Now, here's where it gets exciting. We're going to make Tunisian double stitches with an interesting placement. So I'm going to yarn over and I'm going to make my first Tunisian double one row down and two stitches before. So I'm going to insert my hook, yarn overdraw up a loop. You're an overdraw through two because remember with a Tunisian double, we don't finish the doubles. Now, I'm going to yarn over, I'm gonna go two rows down and one before. So 121, you aren't over and you want to keep your Tunisian doubles nice and loose. You want the leaves to sort of lay flat. You don't want them to have too much tension on them. Now, my next Tunisian double, I'm going to go three rows below 123, you aren't over. Now, we're going to reverse our, our technique here. We're going to go two down and one over and then one down and two over. So let me just show you what's going on here. I have 12345 Tunisian doubles all in a row, but we're making our leaf stitches only going to count as one stitch. So, what I'm gonna do now is yarn over and I'm going to draw through all five of those loops. So the five loops that were on top of the Tunisian doubles. So the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to keep going in Tunisian simple stitch, but I'm going to skip just one stitch because this pick up is going to replace that. So now I'm going to go across and I'm going to, again your pattern. If you're using this in a pattern will tell you all the various ways that you would want to count your stitches. But here's my Tunisian leaf stitch. So, remember I'm going to replace my next stitch. I'm going, here's my column of stitches. I'm going to go one down and two before two down and one before three down, two down and one after one down and two after yarn over, draw through five and move on with my Tunisian simple stitch. So this is a really cute embellishment, lots of texture and it looks very nice on the back. You don't have any nonsense going on the back. So this is a great stitch for you to, for you to use when you're designing your own projects. Thanks for joining me.
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