The Tunisian Knit stitch is so called because it looks a bit like the knit stitch in knitting. It doesn’t really behave like one, though!
This stitch makes a thick fabric which I have found excellent for mittens.
Start out the same way you would with any Tunisian crochet – make a base chain, lift up loops in each stitch, and then work them off, or use the Crochet Cast-On (in re-writing this tutorial is occurs to me that I haven’t made one for the basics of Tunisian crochet. I’ll make one once I’ve re-written the missing posts!)

Time to insert the hook! With Tunisian Simple stitch you work with the vertical bars, but those vertical bars are just the loops that were lifted onto the hook on the last row. For the Tunisian Knit stitch, you still insert the hook from right to left into that loop…

But you also push the hook through the fabric – it should come out the back to the left (as seen from above) of the vertical bar at the back:

And pull a loop up onto the hook:

You’ll notice as you work that your project is curling severely:

This is normal for the Tunisian Knit stitch. It is bigger on the back than it is on the front, and so it curls. You can minimise the curl a little bit by going up to an even bigger hook size than you normally would go up to with Tunisian crochet. Blocking might help if you’re using a natural fibre; or you could try adding a border.
In this picture, I’m hoping you can see why this is called a “knit” stitch:

March 9th, 2012
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