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Tunisian Crochet: Create a Vibrant Throw Pillow

teacher avatar Lee Sartori, Crochet Designer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      1:21

    • 2.

      Discover Tunisian Crochet Basics

      9:35

    • 3.

      Tunisian Knit Stitch

      5:14

    • 4.

      Tunisian Purl Stitch

      8:22

    • 5.

      Tunisian Net Stitch

      9:48

    • 6.

      Put it All Together

      4:13

    • 7.

      Final Thoughts

      0:27

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Add new Tunisian crochet skills to your crocheting repertoire all while adding a beautiful, handmade pillow to your home. 

What started out as a passion for making modern garments and adorable amigurumi brought crocheter Lee Santori more fun projects, cool opportunities, and career freedom than she could’ve imagined. Now between stitching up her favorite characters and new additions to her wardrobe, Lee makes crochet content for her 111K Instagram followers and guest hosts on the popular PBS Show Knit and Crochet Now. As the author of four crochet books, Lee enjoys sharing her love for turning a few skeins of yarn into a work of art that can be cherished for generations to come. 

After working with and teaching crochet for over fifteen years, Lee couldn’t be more ready to teach you the unique and knit-like art of Tunisian crochet. As you create your colorful home decor piece, you’ll learn four Tunisian crochet stitches and the key to making a clean and elevated work of Tunisian crochet.

With Lee by your side, you’ll:

  • Discover the Tunisian crochet hook 
  • Learn basics of Tunisian crochet including the best yarn type to choose
  • Master four Tunisian crochet stitches
  • Use a single crochet border to transform what you learned into a sampler pillow 

Plus, Lee will provide a downloadable pattern and materials list so you can recreate and refine your Tunisian crochet pillow as many times as you’d like. 

Whether you’re looking to expand your crochet palate or you're just looking for a new Tunisian crochet project to try out, this colorful sampler pillow project is sure to bring joy to any home and the ability to unlock that knit-like fabric look that is so desirable and difficult to achieve with regular crochet. 

A familiarity with beginner crochet skills including basic stitches and an understanding of crochet materials and crochet pattern reading is required to take this class. If any of this class feels beyond your skill level, check out this beginner’s crochet class with Toni Lipsey or try out another project from Lee’s full Crochet Learning Path

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Lee Sartori

Crochet Designer

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Lee Sartori is the crochet designer behind CoCo Crochet Lee. She can be seen as a guest host on Seasons 9 -11 of the popular PBS Show Knit and Crochet Now, as well as a cast member of Annie’s Creative Studio where she demonstrates fun crochet skills and patterns. Lee’s passion is designing modern, wearable garments, and adorable amigurumi. Lee lives in Ontario, Canada with her two small children, her amazing husband, and her adorable bunny Neville. Her favorite social platform is Instagram, where she posts fun, and whimsical takes on crochet. Lee is the former Assistant Editor of Happily Hooked Magazine and now focuses on commissioned designs for a number of companies and magazines.

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1. Introduction: Tunisian crochet is so fun because it's a combination of knitting and crocheting. And the first time that I tried it, it actually felt a little bit like magic. And it's just such a fun technique, it feels really whimsical. My name is Le Sartre of Coco Crochet Lee. I'm a crochet designer and I love making crochet patterns that everyone can enjoy. Today we're taking a look at Tunisian crochet. It's a combination of knitting and crocheting together. It's such a fun technique because it takes the basic ideas of crochet and elevates them into a brand new skill. It really unlocks that knit fabric that is so desirable that you don't usually get to achieve with crochet. For this class, I really wanted to give you a sampling of some different textures of Tunisian crochet that you can combine into future projects. After completing this class, I hope that you'll walk away with a really, really fun Tunisian sampler pillow in colors that really express your personality. If you're a little bit nervous about starting off with Tunisian crochet, don't worry soon, you'll be hooked. I'm so excited to begin this class with you. Let's get started on learning how to Tunisian Crochet. 2. Discover Tunisian Crochet Basics: Tunisian crochet is so fun. And there are a few things that you need in order to get started. First, let's talk about the Tunisian crochet hook. You'll see here that I have a really long stick that has a crochet hook at the end. Now it almost looks like it should be a knitting needle, but it's not. It's a Tunisian crochet hook. And what happens is you use the hook to mimic the crochet, but you use the handle to mimic knitting. All of the crochet stitches will rest along the long part of your hook until we need them at the end where the crochet hook will come in handy. Next, let's talk about the yarn that you're going to use for the Tunisian crochet class. Whenever you're looking for yarn to start your project, you're going to look at the recommended size of crochet Hook for the yarn. Specifically, you can use any yarn for Tunisian crochet and you can use any yarn for the Tunisian crochet pillow. I recommend using a medium weight yarn to start and when you're picking your crochet hook size for your Tunisian crochet, always go bigger than what's recommended on the label. That will help you with any curling of your fabric with Tunisian crochet and it'll ensure that your fabric is nice and perfect tension. Now that you have your materials ready, let's learn how to do the basic Tunisian crochet stitch. It's the building blocks of everything that we do in Tunisian crochet. Don't let the long handle of our crochet hook trip you up. Because the beginning of Tunisian crochet begins exactly the same way as we would crochet anything. You're going to start with a slip knot on your yarn, leaving yourself a little bit of a tail a couple inches long to weave in your ends Later, insert your hook onto your loop, just like we would with regular crochet. And you can hold your crochet hook like you would your regular crochet hook. The shaft of your hook off to the side. And just pretend that it's a regular crochet hook for now because the length doesn't come into play just yet crocheting like normal. You're going to start with your beginning chain, just like you would with a normal crochet project for this sample of the basic Tunisian crochet hook. We're just going to start with a small amount and you're going to follow the instructions on the PDF for the crochet pattern, for the length of either the front panel squares or the length of the back panel of the pillow. Make sure you follow those correct number of stitches. We're going to make a starting chain in the amount indicated on the pattern, just like you would in regular crocheting. The difference here with Tunisian crochet is going across your starting chain. Now normally the loop that's on your hook will not get used and you would work into the second chain from the hook to begin your single crochet or whatever crochet stitches you would regularly use. What's going to happen is we are going to insert our hook into the second chain from the loop. But the loop that's on our hook right now is also going to count as a stitch. What's going to happen now is we're going to insert our Tunisian crochet hook into the second chain from the hook yarn over. And draw up a loop. Make sure it's nice and loose the looser, the better. Now you have two loops on your hook. Normally, we would finish a crochet stitch by yarning over and drawing through and making a single crochet with Tunisian crochet. We're actually going to keep drawing up loops all the way across our chain and that's what the length of the hook is for. Those loops are going to rest and live there on the shaft of the hook for the entire time. We're going to insert our hook into the next chain, yarn over and draw up a loop. Again, making sure that your tension is nice and loose. The looser the better. In Tunisian crochet, you don't want to hold your crochet hook really tight. The loop on your hook tight, or the yarn on your hand tight. And we're going to continue doing that all the way across our chain, Insert into the next chain, yarn over, and draw up a loop. Give yourself a little time to grow that loop, a little bit extra, and continue on to the next one. The key to success with starting off your first row for Tunisian crochet is a loose tension. I can't express that enough and that's how you're going to avoid getting that curly fabric. That happens sometimes when you do Tunisian crochet working across all the way to the end of our chain and each of those loops is resting on our Tunisian crochet hook on the handle. The bigger your piece is, the more room you're going to need on your Tunisian crochet hook. And that's why the handle is elongated. You can even find corded Tunisian crochet hooks that add even more length to your crochet. Now that you've gone all the way across your starting chain, the row is not over yet. We still have to deal with all the loops that are on our hook. And here's how we get rid of them. Much like we chain one at the front of a row in regular crochet, in Tunisian crochet, we chain one at the end of the row, that's for height. You're going to chain one through the last loop that you just made. Now we're going to complete the basic return. The basic return is used in every single type of Tunisian crochet. No matter where the placement was on the starting row, the basic return will remain the same. You're going to yarn over and draw through only two loops, leaving the rest of the loops alone on your hook. And you're going to yarn over and go through two loops again, continue doing that all the way back to the start of your piece. And it becomes really rhythmic, especially with a long crochet hook, it becomes really fun to do. The basic return is often my favorite part of Tunisian crochet. When you get to the last two loops, yarn over, draw through both those loops, you've completed your first row of Tunisian basic stitch. In order to progress with the basic stitch in Tunisian crochet, it's important to know how to get to the next row. Here's how it's done. You always have the first loop of Tunisian crochet ready to go on your hook. The first loop is technically the first stitch for the basic stitch for the remainder of either the square or the back panel is done exactly like this. You'll notice on all of the Tunisian stitches that we made in the first row, they all have a vertical front bar and a vertical back bar. We're going to skip the very first vertical front bar because the loop on our hook is the equivalent to that first stitch. You're going to look for the second vertical bar and insert your hook under just that front vertical bar, only leaving the back one alone. Going to yarn over and draw up a loop. We're going to repeat that process all the way across for the second row of the basic stitch under the vertical bar. Draw up a loop under the vertical bar in the front, and draw up a loop now that you've had a little bit of a go at the basic stitch in Tunisian crochet, You may also notice that in future crochet patterns that it's called the simple stitch. They're exactly the same thing. Those two names are interchangeable. The basic Tunisian crochet stitch or the simple stitch. Now that drawn up all those loops under all of those vertical posts, we have one stitch left at the end. Now here's where it changes just slightly. Instead of putting our hook under just the front vertical bar, we're actually going to put our hook under both the back and the front. And then draw up the last loop. The reason that we do this is so that we have a straight edge that when you go under both pieces of the last stitch, you get this nice edge on the edge of your crochet to complete the basic return. If you remember from the first row, it's exactly the same. You chain one. Then we're going to yarn over and draw through two loops only all the way back to the front yarn over under two loops, over under two loops, Yarn over under two. Again, you're just going to repeat that all the way across again. No matter what crochet stitch you're using for Tunisian, the basic return is always the same, always just as satisfying. Then the last two you've completed your second row. The Tunisian basic stitch looks like from posts almost. They look like vertical bars and it's such a fun texture. Now that you've learned how to do the basic Tunisian stitch or the simple stitch, you're ready to work on the first square of the front panel of your pillow. You can also begin the back panel of the pillow which also includes the basic stitch. Now I'm ready to show you how to do the Tunisian knit stitch. 3. Tunisian Knit Stitch: The Tunisian knit stitch is one of my favorite ones because with crocheting, seeing the knit stitch around is very enviable, especially if you don't know how to knit at all. And with this stitch, you can mimic the fabric of knitting and do it in an easy way. That's actually really accessible to crocheters. It's really, really fun. I'm going to show you the placement of the Tunisian knit stitch on top of the basic stitch row because again, the basic stitch row is the building blocks of all Tunisian crochet. You can't make a first row of Tunisian crochet knit stitch. You always have to start with a row first of the basic stitch or the simple stitch. Now that the simple stitch is done on my sample here, I'm going to use a contrasting color for the knit stitch, just to show you the placement, you're going to be continuing in the same color though Once again, the first loop on our hook for the Tunisian knit stitch is the same as the first stitch. So you're not going to work into the very first bar right underneath your first loop on your hook for the Tunisian knit stitch. Instead of putting our hook under the front vertical bar like we did for the basic stitch, we're actually going to punch our hook between the front bar and the back bar. I'm going to show you on the first stitch. We're skipping this first vertical bar again because our first stitch is done. Technically, we're going to go for the second stitch, the second vertical bar. Punching your hook from front to back, between the front bar and the back bar. Then you're going to yarn over and draw up a loop. What happens is you can almost see it already, the front bar and the back bar get separated. It looks the same as a knit stitch. The key to success on this row, especially with the knit stitch, is not to have a tight tension. You want to have a nice loose tension. Just give yourself a little bit of extra time to draw those loops up to a good height above your first row and let those stitches really shine. Again, a loose tension is key in Tunisian crochet. I'll show you that placement again. You're going to look for the next vertical bar. Insert your hook from the front to the back between those 2 bars, the front bar and the back bar between them, from front to back yarn over and draw up a loop. Give it a little bit of extra time to grow nice and loose. We're going to repeat that all the way across. Bringing up a loop between the bars of each and every single one of those Tunisian simple stitches. Or the basic stitch, we're going to pause before we do the very last stitch. Because if you remember from the Tunisian simple stitch, the placement of the very last stitch is really important to get those nice straight and clean edges. Instead of going under the vertical bar or just taking one, you're going to make sure that you get under both pieces of the side and draw up your loop. Then the fun part, the basic return, that's the same for every single Tunisian crochet stitch chain, one at the end and go through two until all of your loops are gone from your hook. I'm going to show you how to do the second row of knit stitches on a base of knit stitches because it's important to know how to continue. Once you have your first row of knit stitches done, you're going to not go into the very first stitch again. You're going to put your hook between the posts or the bars of each of those stitches all the way across the loose tension. Making sure that those stitches grow a little bit before you move on to the next one, the very last stitch. Make sure you go through both pieces, that last loop chain. One basic return, then let's take a look at what this fabric looks like. Now that we've done two rows of the Tunisian knit stitch, you can really see those knit stitches starting to happen. If you are a fan of knitting, now you know how to mimic this fabric. Now that you know how to do the Tunisian knit stitch, there's nothing that happens in knitting without the pearl stitch two. We're going to learn how to do that texture next. 4. Tunisian Purl Stitch: When you're learning how to Tunisian crochet, one of the appeals is being able to mimic the knitted texture of knit stitches. And now we're going to learn how to do pearl stitches. Knitting, you can specifically make a row of pearls, but they're also found on the underside of a knit stitch. Let's learn how to create that pearl texture with some Tunisian pearls. With Tunisian pearl stitch, you can't make the first row without first doing a row of the Tunisian basic stitch or the simple stitch. You'll see here that I have my first row of basic stitch already completed And I'm going to work in a contrasting color to show you the pearl stitch placement. But you're going to continue in the color that you use for the first row, again with Tunisian crochet. The first stitch is already done for you. It's on your hook already. And that is the first loop on your hook. So you're going to count that as stitch number one, which means you're always going to look for the second bar or the second stitch to start your Tunisian crocheting. Now unfortunately, the pearl stitch for Tunisian crochet is the most fiddly. It can give you a little bit of heartache, but it's actually the same knitting. A lot of people really hate to do the pearl stitch, but the fabric is so fun. And I find that in Tunisian crochet in particular the pearl stitch is really fun to do rather than having your working yarn behind your crochet hook. For the pearl stitch, you need to change it to being in front of your work and with your hook behind it. This is where the fiddle part comes in. I like to anchor my working yarn to the front of my fabric and hold it there with my thumb that it doesn't slip away on you because we need that yarn to stay in the front while we also are moving our Tunisian crochet hook around. That's the fiddle part about doing the pearl stitch. We need the yarn to really create a texture in the front of the work. Now that that is pinned down, you're going to locate the vertical bar of our Tunisian simple stitch or basic stitch. Put your hook under the front post as if you were doing the basic stitch or the simple stitch. I can let go with my thumb on that anchor of the yarn in the front. And you'll see now that my hook is in the post. The yarn is in front of the post. I can do a yarn over. Now. I still like to hold onto the anchor just for this yarn over. I'm going to yarn over and draw under that front post of our Tunisian basic stitch. Now if you let go, that yarn that we anchored in the front turns into a pearl. Let's take a look at that. Across this row, we're going to move the yarn in front of our work. Insert the Tunisian crochet hook into the vertical front bar of the next stitch. Anchor the yarn to the front of our fabric, right under that front vertical bar yarn over. And draw up a loop. Again, the looser your tension, the better this stitch will look and then you can let go of that pearl. The pearls are made by leaving that yarn in the front. We're going to continue on. You're going to put your yarn in the front hook behind it. Insert your hook from underneath the vertical front bar, anchor that yarn to the front of your fabric, and draw under that front bar. You can really see the placement of these Tunisian pearl stitches when you're using a contrasting color. But when you're using one color and continuing on in working rows, they can be a little bit tricky to see. Make sure you take your time really make sure you understand the positioning of each of these pearl stitches as you go along. Leaving those loops on your hook all the way to the end. Now we're at the final stitch of our Tunisian pearl stitch row. Instead of pearling at the very end, we're just going to do a basic final stitch under those two posts that we usually do. That's just to get that nice clean edge without pearling at all. You're just going to insert your hook into the final stitch over and draw up that final loop. You'll notice that the pearl is omitted on the final stitch. It is noticeable on a really small swatch, but it's not noticeable on a big piece of fabric, especially if you're using one color. Then you're going to complete the basic return chain one. Yarn over and draw through two all the way across yarn over and under two, yarn over and under two. Just a little bit of a troubleshooting, if you are unsure if you've arned over and drawn through two, or maybe one or even maybe three by accident. There's a really easy way to check. If you take a look to the left of your crochet hook, you'll be able to see that there are two loops stuck to your working yarn. That's how you know you've drawn under two. Say for example, if I made a mistake and I went under three. You'll see here that you can see visibly three different loops on your hook all at once, and that would be considered a decrease. We don't want to go through three at all. How do you fix something like that? Simply take that loop back off of your hook and put it onto the shaft of your Tunisian crochet hook. It's a super easy fix. Continuing on yarning over and drawing through two. Yarning over and drawing through two. We're going to do one more row of the Tunisian pearl stitch, showing you how to work into a row of already existing Tunisian pearl stitches. But the good thing about this stitch, even though the placement of it is a little bit fitly, the actual rows are really easy to see going forward because the pearls rest at the bottom of the stitches. As you can see here, what's left behind is what looks like a very visible row of basic stitches. Again, our first stitch is already complete. We're going to look for the second post now you're going to get to see what it looks like in one color. We're going to pearl all the way across, making sure our working yard is in the front and doing those pearls all the way across. When you get to the final stitch, remember to omit the pearl. We're not going to pearl, we're going to insert our hook. Making sure that we hit those two side bars. Draw up your loop chain one and complete the basic return. Let's take a look at this Tunisian pearl fabric. Now that we've worked a few rows, you can see that by leaving the yarn in the front of those stitches, we've left these little pearls behind. And it perfectly mimics the knitted pearl stitch. We've taken a look at the Tunisian basic stitch or a simple stitch. The Tunisian knit stitch and the Tunisian pearl stitch. I'm just really excited to show you one more Tunisian crochet stitch that creates a really wonderful texture. And you'll find it in the pillow pattern, in the front panel square as well as in lines on the back panel. Let's take a look at the Tunisian net stitch. 5. Tunisian Net Stitch: I'm really excited to show you how to do the final stitch in the simpler pillow. It is the Tunisian net stitch. But before we get started, I wanted to first show you what the net stitch looks in all its glory. Because it's one of my favorite Tunisian crochet stitches. And once you build it into a series of rows, it creates such a wonderful texture. And you can really see this netting situation happening with all these front bars. And it's actually just as simple as the Tunisian simple stitch or basic stitch. It's just all about offsetting the placement of those stitches. Before we get started on how to do the net stitch, I did want to talk about how Tunisian crochet has a tendency to curl at the beginning few rows. You can see that my swatch here is starting to curl on our table. That happens for a number of reasons. Tunisian crochet is really textured on the back. Let's take a look at the back of our Swatch. You can see here that a lot of yarn gets used on the back surface Tunisian crochet. Although it does mimic knitting stitches and pearl stitches, it uses considerably more yarn than knitting in order to use the crochet hook. That's what happens with Tunisian crochet. All of the fabric gets thicker on the back. It'll never be as thin as knitting will be, it's still crochet. There are a couple ways to troubleshoot when the front two rows or front few rows, I should say, of your Tunisian crochet starts to curl. You can use a standard crochet hook in a different size, a larger size to do your initial chain. Because the chain isn't technically Tunisian crochet, it's just a regular crochet chain. If you make your initial chain in a larger size, that will loosen the tension of your starting row. You might be able to avoid a little bit of that curl. If you do find that your Tunisian crochet is curling, it matters. For example, for our sampler pillow, the curl doesn't matter at all. It's a great beginner project because we're going to be seaming the pillow together and the curl doesn't present anywhere in the pillow at all. If it's something like a sweater or a scarf, though, and you don't want that first few rows to curl. You can do something called blocking. You can hit the panel with a little bit steam and make those stitches relax. Or you can wet block by soaking your Tunisian crochet and pinning it to dry and it should retain its flat shape. Just a few tips on how to get that curl to go away for the purposes of this pattern. If you are noticing that you are starting Tunisian crochet for the first time and your Tunisian crochet is starting to curl. Don't worry about it at all. It doesn't matter for this pattern. It can be curly because it will work itself out when you go to seam the panels of your pillow. So now that that's out of the way, let's get started on our net stitch because I'm really excited to show you what this looks like. The net stitch starts off the same way as the basic Tunisian crochet stitch. And it's actually works the exact same as the Tunisian basic stitch, except for the placement of the stitches are between the post instead of under the front post. The difference between this stitch and the others is that where they all had a one rope repeat, meaning that each row is exactly the same. The Tunisian net stitch has a two row repeat so that the stitches offset and turn into a net. That means that the first row placement is going to end up a little bit different. We have our first stitch on our hook already. We're avoiding that first stitch on the side here that we always avoid. Next, we're going to actually put our hook, the next two Tunisian simple stitches. Not under the front bar, not between the 2 bars at all. It's actually literally between the two stitches themselves into the gap between them. And you're going to yarn over and draw up a loop. We're going to do this all the way across. Drawing up a loop between all of these stitches. The important thing about this particular stitch is that you have to count the number of stitches indicated in the pattern and maintain that number of stitches because it's really easy to add or subtract stitches because we are skipping the first stitch technically on the next row, we need to add it back in. We've gone between the posts of every single stitch we've gone between the stitches. All of the previous row stitches. And we're at the end of the row again. We're going to go through the side bars of the final stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop yarn over and chain one. Then we're going to do the basic return yarn over and draw through two, all the way across. The basic return is the same no matter what Tunisian crochet stitch you're doing. We've got our first row of the repeat lined up for our Tunisian net stitch. And here's how these stitches offset one another for the second row. Usually we would skip the first stitch and work between the next two posts here. But to offset the stitches and make them turn into a netting, we're actually going to work in the very first gap between the side bar of the first stitch and the next stitch, inserting your hook at the beginning, the first gap between the stitch is possible, and drawing up a loop. We're going to do that in every gap between the stitches again, all the way across. Working those Tunisian net stitches between the posts of every single stitch. And leaving those loops on your hook until the very end. Now with this row, because we went into the first gap, we're going to skip the very last gap between the side edge of the last stitch in this gap right here, there's one stitch complete, there's a gap. And then there's the side stitch that we usually do under the 2 bars of the side stitch. We're going to skip this gap. And that's going to adjust our count because we added that extra stitch at the beginning. Instead of skipping it, you're going to insert to do this side stitch yarn and bring up your loop chain one and complete your basic return. If you get lost on whether you are on row one or row two of the net stitch repeat. I'm going to show you a little visual on how to figure out where you are because it can get easy. If say for example, you put your crochet hook down for a little while and took a break to pick it back up and figure out whether you're on row one repeat or a row two repeat. The way to tell whether you're on a row one repeat or a row two repeat to look at the placement of the very first stitch in the row. If you notice the row two repeat that we just did, it is more to the right of the stitch from the previous row, which was our row one repeat. If you look down again on the next row, you'll notice that this stitch is also to the right further than this stitch which was a row one. If your stitch is further to the right of the stitch prior in the row prior, that means you're on a row two. If your stitch is to the left of the row prior, that means that you're on a row one. It's a really good way of figuring it out. You can also use stitch markers on the sides of your rows and maybe just mark row one only so that when you put your cook down and your crochet down, you'll be able to tell if your stitch marker is in your work. That means you're on a row one. And if your stitch marker is not in it, then that means you're on a row two. Just some tips on making sure that you know exactly where you are now that you know how to do all of these knit and pearl and net stitches in Tunisian crochet. Let's put all those skills together and finish up our pillow. 6. Put it All Together: We've learned all of the Tunisian stitches required for the Tunisian sampler pillow. Now that you have learned them all, you can see them all in action. Here on the front panel, we have the simple stitch, the Tunisian knit stitch here, the Tunisian pearl stitch panel, and the Tunisian net stitch. You'll notice that all of the squares have a simple single crochet border around them to jump them out. And then it seemed in a four square to make one big panel. And if we flip the pillow over, you'll see all of the Tunisian stitches in action. Again, on the back panel, you'll see the Tunisian simple stitch here, the Tunisian knit stitch. And when you see a big swath of it compared to the other stitches, you can really tell how smooth and flat the knit stitch is and how much it really does mimic knitting next to the pearl stitches which are really bumpy, and mimic that pearl stitch in knitting. And then finally ending with the Tunisian net stitch which has that really great raise texture. Now that you have tried all of those different stitches, let's talk about the single crochet border that's around each of the front panel squares. Bringing back in our Tunisian basic stitch or simple stitch, there is that single crochet border around the edge of each of the squares. It's just literally as simple as doing a regular single crochet with a standard crochet hook. You don't have to use your Tunisian crochet hook. And doing those chain edges and going into the last two bumps of the last stitch in all of our Tunisian stitches meant that we have a nice, crisp edge to do our single crochet stitches along each side of all of our squares. The border of each of the squares consists of several rows of single crochet with two chains at the edge of each corner. It'll grow on top of each other, one after the other. You can add as many colors as you like. Once you have all of the edges put on all of your squares, it's time to seam everything together. The front panel of our pillow consists of four individual squares that are all seamed together. They all have a single crochet border around each of them and then they are whip stitch together using a darning needle or a yarn needle. You're going to leave a long tail at the end of your final round for each square. For sewing, joining those two seams together is as simple as joining through both single crochets on each square. You're going to insert your darning needle through both stitches on both squares and simply draw through for a whip stitch, lighting them both up and joining them together. Once you've seemed all four of your panels together, you're ready to seem around the entire edge of the outside of the pillow front and back. And that's it for our Tunisian crochet sampler pillow. There is insert inside, you can find standard 18 inch by 18 inch pillow inserts at any craft store as well as online. The best practice for stuffing your pillow and finishing the seaming along the outside edges is to flip your panels inside out and seem the first three edges close by sewing and then flipping the pillow right side out. Again, stuffing it with the 18, 18 inch pillow insert. And simply closing the last seam with the right side facing. Once you're done seaming up your pillow, you're going to have a cuddly Tunisian sample pillow to add to your home. 7. Final Thoughts: You did it. You worked on a Tunisian crochet pillow. And now you have something really amazing to add to your home with a whole bunch of new techniques to add to your repertoire. Thank you so much for joining me for this class. Be sure to upload your projects to the project gallery so that we can see all of the color choices and all of your new techniques that you've learned and happy crocheting.