Learn Tunisian crochet with this pillow project, which teaches the basic stitch, decreasing, and binding off. This small project can be completed with a standard crochet hook. This pattern includes a video tutorial for the Tunisian crochet stitches.

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Skills Used
Basic crochet stitches: chain, double crochet, single crochet
Crocheting in rows for squares, crocheting in rounds for borders
Decreasing with Tss (explanation provided in pattern and video tutorial)
Special stitch patterns: Color-Change Return, Standard Return, Tss (explanations provided in pattern and video tutorial)

Skill Level
Easy

Finished Size
Fits an 18” (46 cm) pillow form.

Materials
HiKoo SimpliWorsted by Skacel Collection (55% Merino superwash wool/28% acrylic/17% nylon, 3.5 oz/100 g, 140 yd/128 m) – 2 skeins ea in 036 Silver Hair (CA) and 011 Indigo (CB), or approximately 280 yd (256 m) in ea of 2 colors in any medium weight yarn.

U.S. Size J-10 (6 mm) crochet or Tunisian crochet hook, or any size needed to obtain gauge.

U.S. Size I-9 (5.5 mm) crochet hook, or any size needed to obtain gauge.

Yarn needle.

18” x 18” (46 cm x 46 cm) pillow form.

Tools for wet blocking (pins, blocking mat or padded ironing board).

Gauge
Square = 4” (10 cm) in pattern after blocking. For best fit, always check your gauge.

This pattern was originally published in December, 2014 in the Winter, 2014 issue of Love of Crochet.