Tunisian crochet tutorial – Tunisian full stitch

Here’s another stitch that I am very fond of. The Tunisian Full Stitch is extremely simple to make and can be used to build bulky fabrics such as blankets or scarves.

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

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 curls quite a bit. You can try using a larger hook or block the fabric to fix it.

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. In the picture below, the blue pin indicates the space between two stitches and the pink pin indicates the space between two vertical bars of the same stitch. The hook is inserted in the space indicated by the blue 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 space between the current stitch and the next stitch. Insert the hook into that space, yarn over and pull through the space into a loop on the hook.

Step 3: Identify the space between the next two stitches all the way to the end of the row. Do this for all the spaces except for the last one: Insert the hook into the space, yarn over and pull through the space into a loop on the hook.

Step 4: Skip the last space (indicated by the blue pin in the picture below) and make the last stitch. This is done to maintain the rectangular shape of the fabric. You can read more about shaping fabrics on my blog here.

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.