Welcome to Tunisian Tuesdays! Each Tuesday for the rest of 2025 (or until you all get bored or I run out of steam 🙂 I will drop a tutorial for a different Tunisian crochet stitch.
This week is the Right Twist Columns stitch from the Tunisian Sampler Ruana pattern.
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Special Stitches:
Standard Return: Ch 1, *yo, draw through 2 loops on hook. Rep from * across until 1 loop remains.
Edge Stitch: On the forward pass insert your hook right to left under the last vertical bar as if to TSS AND the strand behind it. Yo and draw up a loop.
Right Twist: insert hook through next vertical bar left to right instead of right to left, keeping the hook in front off the work as if to TSS.
Special Abbreviations:
RT – Right Twist
TSS – Tunisian Simple Stitch
Abbreviations:
Ch – chain
Dc – double crochet
Rnd – round
Sc – single crochet
Sl st – slip stitch
Yo – yarn over
Right Twist Columns:
FOR THE RUANA: This is block A1, Make 12. With A, ch 21.
AS A STITCH PATTERN: Chain any odd number.
Row 1 forward: TSS.
Row 2 forward: (TSS, RT) 9 times, TSS, edge stitch.
Rep Row 2 until work measures 7”.
Final Row: Sl st across, working in each vertical bar as you would have worked the forward pass – right to left for TSS, left to right for RT. Fasten off.