Tunisian crochet

On Dec 28, 12:59*am, wrote:
On Dec 27, 11:41*pm, (semajrn)
wrote:

I just learned about Tunisian crochet, but have not seen information about
Tunisian crochet using circular needles. Is this possible and does anyone
know of
instructions or a link to instructions?

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Tunisian Crochet is made *on a Special LONG crochet hook .
mirjam

Looks the same as afghan stitch crocheting?

Years ago, a friend's afghan hook had an aluminum part the same length
as ordinary afghan hooks with a flexible nylon piece extending from
it, with a stopper at the very end. It may have been from Boye -- ah,
I see Boye still makes them! Anyway, the afghan's current stitches
could "pile up" on the nylon part so that the section being worked
could be several feet wide!

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Cece wrote:
On Dec 28, 12:59*am, wrote:
On Dec 27, 11:41*pm, (semajrn)
wrote:
I just learned about Tunisian crochet, but have not seen
information about Tunisian crochet using circular needles. Is
this possible and does anyone know of instructions or a link to
instructions?

Looks the same as afghan stitch crocheting?

Years ago, a friend's afghan hook had an aluminum part the same length
as ordinary afghan hooks with a flexible nylon piece extending from
it, with a stopper at the very end. It may have been from Boye -- ah,
I see Boye still makes them! Anyway, the afghan's current stitches
could "pile up" on the nylon part so that the section being worked
could be several feet wide!

Tunesian crochet, afghan crochet, and tricot are all variant names of
the same lengthwise-worked stitching with a crochet hook where one
picks up an entire row of stitches, then returns pulliong YOs through
two stitches at a time. One theoretically _could_ do a short enough
work even on a small hook, but the multiple pick-ups mean you do
generally need either a long rigid hook, or a hook with, as you
mention, a nylon cable on the back.

Tunesian crochet is, I think, the preferred name, with minimal
ambiguity ("tricot" also describes machine-knitted fabrics, and
"afghan" crochet is easily confused with the completely unrelated act
of crocheting an afghan).

Adding to the confusion, there are a few variants on Tunesian crochet
as well; there's cro-hook, which I think might actually be a
registered trademark of someone, which is worked with two strands, and
which requires a hook at the front _and_ back of the row which is
picked up, and the YO/pull through 2 action is done at the back, with
the second strand, instead of at the front. This stitch can be done on
either a long rigid hook with hooks at both ends, or a 'circular
hook', which is a pair of crochet hooks connected by a nylon cable,
like circular knitting needles are.

-Jake

On Dec 29 2008, 5:30*pm, Jake Wildstrom
wrote:
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Cece wrote:
On Dec 28, 12:59*am, wrote:
On Dec 27, 11:41*pm, (semajrn)
wrote:
I just learned about Tunisian crochet, but have not seen
information about Tunisian crochet using circular needles. Is
this possible and does anyone know of instructions or a link to
instructions?
Looks the same as afghan stitch crocheting?

Years ago, a friend's afghan hook had an aluminum part the same length
as ordinary afghan hooks with a flexible nylon piece extending from
it, with a stopper at the very end. *It may have been from Boye -- ah,
I see Boye still makes them! *Anyway, the afghan's current stitches
could "pile up" on the nylon part so that the section being worked
could be several feet wide!

Tunesian crochet, afghan crochet, and tricot are all variant names of
the same lengthwise-worked stitching with a crochet hook where one
picks up an entire row of stitches, then returns pulliong YOs through
two stitches at a time. One theoretically _could_ do a short enough
work even on a small hook, but the multiple pick-ups mean you do
generally need either a long rigid hook, or a hook with, as you
mention, a nylon cable on the back.

Tunesian crochet is, I think, the preferred name, with minimal
ambiguity ("tricot" also describes machine-knitted fabrics, and
"afghan" crochet is easily confused with the completely unrelated act
of crocheting an afghan).

Adding to the confusion, there are a few variants on Tunesian crochet
as well; there's cro-hook, which I think might actually be a
registered trademark of someone, which is worked with two strands, and
which requires a hook at the front _and_ back of the row which is
picked up, and the YO/pull through 2 action is done at the back, with
the second strand, instead of at the front. This stitch can be done on
either a long rigid hook with hooks at both ends, or a 'circular
hook', which is a pair of crochet hooks connected by a nylon cable,
like circular knitting needles are.

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The published patterns, though, all want the stuff done in narrow
strips, four to six inches wide, which can be sewn together. The
cable hook lets you do a whole bedspread width at once!