Sunday 21 January 2018

Shaped Headband with Tunisian Simple Stitch

In one of the editions of the Crochet Now magazine I received a free Tunisian Crochet Hook.  Tunisian Crochet was completely unfamiliar to me at that point.  Since then I have made a few sample squares with the basic stitch known as the "Simple Stitch" but not progressed my skill beyond this and actually made something!  Thinking it was high time I did something about that, I signed up for a course on Tunisian Crochet for beginners which is an online course offered by Craftsy.  

With this course I get the opportunity to make three winter accessories: a headband, cowl and Beanie hat.  I have already made the headband using the Simple Stitch and have learned how to increase and decrease.  Now I can't wait to move onto making the cowl as my next project.

Here is my first completed project.





The yarn I chose was Life Aran by  Stylecraft which is slightly thicker than the DK Yarn I am used to working with and perfect for this project.  Although I used a 6mm tunisian crochet hook, in this instance, due to the small number of stitches on the hook, you could get away with using an ordinary crochet hook.

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