we have already said, Tunisian crochet requires to be done with a
long straight needle, with a knob at one end and it can only be worked
on the right side.

[Illustration: FIG. 444. PLAIN TUNISIAN CROCHET.]

PLAIN TUNISIAN CROCHET (fig. 444).--After making a foundation chain of
the required length, begin the first, or loop row as it is called. Put
the needle into the 2nd chain stitch, draw a loop through and so on,
until you have taken up all the chain stitches on the needle. After
having made the last stitch of the loop row, make 1 chain stitch and
then pass to the second row that completes the stitch. Turn the thread
round the needle, draw it through two loops, turn the thread round
again, and again draw it through two loops, and so on to the end.

[Illustration: FIG. 445. STRAIGHT PLAITED TUNISIAN STITCH.]

STRAIGHT PLAITED TUNISIAN STITCH (fig. 445).--Worked thus: miss the
first loop in the 1st row, take up the second, and come back to the
first, so that the 2 loops are crossed. Work the second row in the same
manner as the second row of the preceding figure.

[Illustration: FIG. 446. SLANTING PLAITED TUNISIAN STITCH.]

DIAGONAL PLAITED TUNISIAN STITCH (fig. 446).--Worked like the
preceding, taking up first the second loop and then the first: the
second row also, in the same way as before. In the third row, take up
the first stitch, and draw the third through the second, so as to
produce diagonal lines across the surface of the work.

OPEN TUNISIAN STITCH.--This is an easy kind of Tunisian crochet. The
first row is worked as in fig. 444. In the row of plain stitches, you
alternately join 2 and 3, or 3 and 4 loops of the preceding row
together, and replace them by as many chain stitches.

DECREASING AND INCREASING IN TUNISIAN CROCHET (fig. 447). Our
illustration shows how to decrease on both sides and by that means form
scallops.

[Illustration: FIG. 447. DECREASING IN TUNISIAN CROCHET.]

You miss a stitch alternately on the right and left. On the right you
crochet the first two stitches together, and at the end of the row, the
last two, and so on, to the end. You increase in the same order, first
on the right and then on the left.

HAIRPIN CROCHET (figs. 448, 449, 450).--So called because it is worked
on a kind of large steel hairpin or fork with two or more prongs. Wooden
and nickel varieties of this implement, which are patented by Mme
Besson, of Paris, are also used.

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