This is another quick and dirty tutorial on a Tunisian stitch...this one is the Purl stitch, and is a little more work than the knit. You will be putting your hook under the first (actually second, as we all know) vertical bar in front of the fabric - while the yarn is on the front, too.
I generally pull the yarn down in front using my hook to make it loop under the vertical bar. Then put the hook through the bar, and then draw up the yarn to the back. You are actually "hanging" the hook - cheesy but true! You then YO and pull the loop through the vertical bar. It leaves that tell tell bump that you normally see in knitting (but the back does NOT look like the knit stitch as you would see if you were actually knitting.
Let's see if the photos help.....
Yarn is on front of fabric, put hook through the vertical bar....
Pull yarn to back around hook....
Get it behind the hook so you can do a YO....
I generally hold the yarn at the bottom and pinch it (like in the color change) so pulling the yarn through the loop doesn't make it tighten up too much.....
YO
After you pull it thorough you will start on the next stitch....
Pull yarn down to front here I use my hook to do it...
Hold the yarn down and you will move it back behind the hook...
See how it looks......
Now do a YO and pull it through the vertical bar so you have three loops on the hook...
Ta da!
Just keep doing it ... pretty soon you will get a rhythm in throwing the yarn to the front...
See how the stitches look something like the Purl stitches in knit.....
Now you can see the bottom two rows of the TSS, the next two rows of the TKS, and know the last two rows I completed of the TPS.
Easy Peasy as my BFF says!
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