Would you believe this is a crochet stitch? It is! I know it doesn’t look like crochet, but this stitch is definitely crocheted. It’s called the Tunisian knit stitch, and you can learn how to work this crochet stitch using the free Tunisian knit stitch tutorial posted at crochet.about.com.
If you break any crochet project down into its simplest elements, you’ll always find crochet stitches as the basis. It’s intriguing to me that intensely complicated projects can be broken down into groupings of basic crochet stitches, usually chain stitches, single crochet stitches, double crochet stitches, half double crochet stitches, slip stitches, and so forth.
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