How to Increase in a Tunisian Crochet
Tunisian crochet is most often used to make thick, double-sided afghans. Because Tunisian crochet requires a double-ended crochet hook, it can be confusing for those used to regular crochet. Instead of working Tunisian stitches one at a time, you load the crochet hook with stitches like a knitting needle and pull a strand from a second ball of yarn through all the stitches. Add stitches to a row of Tunisian crochet using a technique called a forward pass increase.
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Instructions
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Insert the left end of the hook into the first horizontal bar between the first and second stitches of a forward pass. The vertical bars are the stitches through which you pick up stitches.
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Wrap the end of the crochet hook over the top, as you would for a normal crochet stitch.
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Pull the wrap through the horizontal bar and to the front of the stitches. You begin a row with one stitch on the hook, and you will now have two stitches.
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Continue loading the hook with stitches across the row as usual for a forward pass.
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Make additional increases through subsequent horizontal bars as needed.
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What you describe, using a double ended hook and two balls of yarn, strictly speaking, is NOT tunisian crochet. It is Crochetnit/Cro-hook/CrochetOnTheDouble - whichever. Tunisian is worked in a back-and-forth fashion using a single ended, long hook. I only post this for beginners to either of the two crafts, as I'd imagine such discrepancies would be very confusing.
