While at the Seattle Knitting Expo Blogless Marsha and I took a class on Tunisian Crochet. It’s done on what looks like a crochet hook on steroids – the length of a long knitting needle and the thickness of a size 10 needle (6mm) for sport weight yarn. For worsted weight, the hook must be much thicker unless you want to produce a board. You never turn your work and there are three basic stitches – the simple stitch, the knit stitch, which looks like stockinette, and the purl. It’s supposedly faster and adaptable to most knitting patterns. I’m still pretty slow, but will give it an honest go.
Here is a simple stitch scarf in progress, done in a Fleece Artist smooth mohair, in the Wild Flowers colourway.
A sample with the same needle in Lorna’s Laces Lion and Lamb, in the Vera colourway, front and back:
One more, in a Fleece Artist fine loopy mohair in the Pinata colourway:
Life's a Stitch 
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