Tunisian crochet tutorial - Reverse Stitch (trs)

Here is another Tunisian crochet stitch that I have started using recently. It is a non-curling stitch and can be combined with other stitches to make some very beautiful patterns!

Here is the front and back of a Tunisian Reverse Stitch swatch.

Front
Back

The hook

There are a bunch of different Tunisian crochet hooks available for purchase. You can read about the hooks I use here. Because of the nature of Tunisian crochet stitches, I recommend using a hook that is at least 2 sizes larger than the recommended hook on the yarn.

Curling

The fabric built with this stitch should not curl.

Video Tutorials

I have right and left handed video tutorials for this stitch on my Youtube channel. You can find all my Tunisian crochet video tutorials here.

Right handed

Left handed

Photo Tutorial

The most important thing in making this stitch is to figure out where you would insert your hook. Every Tunisian stitch usually has 2 vertical bars. In the picture below, the blue pin indicates the front vertical bar and the pink pin indicates the back vertical bar. To make the Reverse Stitch, the hook is inserted from behind the project in the vertical bar indicated by the pink pin.

Let’s get started with the tutorial!

Forward pass

Step 1: The first stitch of the forward pass is the one that is on your hook. You do not have to do anything to make the first stitch.

Step 2: Identify the back vertical bar of the next stitch. Insert the hook into that vertical bar, yarn over and pull through into a loop on the hook.

Step 3: Identify the back vertical bars all the way to the end of the row. Do this for all the stitches except for the last one: Insert the hook into the back vertical bar, yarn over and pull through into a loop on the hook.

Step 4: To make the last stitch, find the two vertical bars of the last stitch of the previous row (indicated by the pink pin in the picture below): the ones in the front and the back. Insert hook into both those bars, yarn over and pull through both the vertical bars on the hook. You can see a detailed explanation of this step in the Tunisian Simple Stitch tutorial.

Reverse Pass

This is the same as the reverse pass in the Foundation Row: Chain 1, yarn over and pull through two loops on the hook. Repeat this for all the loops on the hook until you have one loop on the hook.

In Tunisian crochet, the stitches on any given row are defined by how you crochet the next row. The row that was just made defined the one before it as a Tunisian Full Stitch row.