Preventing Curling in Tunisian Crochet, Reverse Stitch, Yeast

Preventing Curling and Reverse Stitch

Continuing with Tunisian crochet, I found some tips to prevent rolling. You can work into the back of the chain, do some rows in reverse stitch at the beginning and end of the sample, and use a hook two or more sizes bigger than recommended for knit/crochet. This worked quite well on the small sample I did of reverse stitch. I'm working my way through this play list by Kim Guzman

Yeast

Yeast is all around us. A particularly good source is oak bark.

In a commercial environment, it takes four days to produce 30,000 kg from just 0.1g of yeast and huge quantities of sugar! The yeast doubles its numbers every three hours.

Dried yeast keeps for two years. Live yeast in a block keeps for about a month.

Nepal, Tunisian Crochet

Nepal Earthquake

I was classifying damage in Nepal today at the Tomnod site. I've seen pictures and new reports and read what has happened to people but seeing the before and after pictures and actively doing something brought the reality of it crashing home to me. By taking part in clicking on damaged buildings, seeing rubble where once a house stood, tents where people have now found shelter, it ceased to be something distant and incomprehensible. What I learnt is that the simple act of clicking images makes me involved, makes it part of my life, makes it real.

Tunisian Crochet

I've continued with the series of videos mentioned in an earlier post and learnt the twisted purl and honeycomb stitches.

Tunisian Crochet - Preventing Curl, Reverse Stitch and Knit Stitch

Preventing Curling and Reverse Stitch

Continuing with Tunisian crochet, I found some tips to prevent rolling. You can work into the back of the chain, do some rows in reverse stitch at the beginning and end of the sample, and use a hook two or more sizes bigger than recommended for knit/crochet. This worked quite well on the small sample I did of reverse stitch.

I'm currently working my way through this play list by Kim Guzman. There is also a left hand version on her YouTube channel.

Tunisian Crochet

Basic Stitch, Crossed Stitch, Lace Stitch

I learnt three Tunisian Crochet stitches today. There were the basic stitch, crossed stitch, and lace stitch. I'm crocheting too tightly at the moment so I'm finding it difficult to crochet the loops of the hook on the return row. The first cross over row of the crossed stitch was hard and I ended up using a stitch holder throw all the loops so I could find them as the crossing over action tended to hide the skipped stitch. Lace stitch is pretty and surprisingly easy for its elegance.

The basic and crossed stitch samples, both very firm, are rolling horribly but the less dense lace is staying reasonably flat.