Crocheted items for the home are really all the rage right now. How fun is it to be able to make them yourself!? From cool covers for your stools to crocheted blankets and cushions. You can never have enough of the latter, especially! That’s why Annemarie set to work on a cushion using the smock stitch. Because the most beautiful stitches are made with a long crochet hook!
Crocheting a Tunisian cushion - Tunisian crochet is a combination of crocheting and knitting. You work with multiple stitches, but they’re all on a single Crochet Hook that looks more like a long crochet hook than a Knitting Needle. With this type of Tunisian crochet hook, you wrap the stitches around the hook every round and then slip them off again on the next round. Still not quite clear? No problem—on our website, you’ll find an online course that teaches you Tunisian crochet step by step!
Yarn and Colors Super-Must-Have: The Perfect Yarn for Home Decor
Annemarie crocheted her Tunisian cushion using Yarn and Colors Super Must-have. This is the thickest yarn in the brand’s Must-have collection, making it ideal for creating home decor. Annemarie chose the color mustard for her crocheted cushion, but this cotton yarn comes in many different colors! So this Tunisian cushion will fit right into any home.
Tools & Supplies:
- 3 balls of Yarn and Colors Super Must-have (color 15)
- 7 mm Tunisian Crochet Hook
- 6 and 6.5 mm Crochet Hooks
- Inner pillow 30x50 cm (e.g., Hema)
Crochet a Tunisian Cushion - Free Crochet Pattern
Using the Tunisian Crochet Hook, chain 36. In Tunisian crochet, you work one round going forward and one round going back. These two rounds together make up one round. Crochet the first two rounds using the basic stitch.
Round 1:
Outbound trip:
Now insert the Crochet Hook into the 2nd chain stitch from the Crochet Hook. To determine which chain stitch is the 2nd one, look to see where your working yarn comes out. Skip the chain stitch where your working yarn comes out; the next one is the 2nd chain stitch from the Crochet Hook.
Insert your Crochet Hook, make a yarn over, and pull the yarn through the stitch. Leave the yarn over on your Crochet Hook. You now have 2 loops on your Crochet Hook. *Insert your Crochet Hook into the next chain stitch, make a yarn over, and pull the yarn through the chain stitch. Leave the yarn over on your Crochet Hook*. Repeat from * to * until you have 36 loops on your Crochet Hook.
Return trip:
Yarn over and pull through 1 loop on your Crochet Hook. *Yarn over and pull through 2 loops on your Crochet Hook*. Repeat *to*, until the end of the row, until you have 1 loop left on your Crochet Hook.
Round 2:
Outbound trip:
*Insert your Crochet Hook from right to left under 2 loops at a time. Make a yarn over and pull through. Then, using your working yarn, make a yarn over from back to front to create a new stitch*. Repeat until the end of the row. Pull the yarn all the way through the last stitch. Repeat the return row 1.
Round 3:
Outbound trip:
Crochet the first and last loops single. Repeat row 2 in the remaining stitches.
Repeat the previous row 1.
Alternate between rows 2 and 3 until the end of your project.
Crochet a total of 60 rows. Finish your work by crocheting a slip stitch into each loop.
Finishing
Attach a new strand of yarn to one of the corners using a 6.5 mm Crochet Hook. Now crochet 1 round of single crochet (sc) all the way around. At the corners, crochet 1 sc, 1 ch, 1 sc to create a nice corner. Fasten off. Neatly weave in all ends. Crochet another piece exactly the same. Using a 6 mm Crochet Hook, join the two pieces together with slip stitches (sl st).
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