March 9th, 2012 
mio Many of you are already familiar with one way of doing Tunisian short rows, thanks to my mio’s hat pattern. In this tutorial we’re going to cover both how to do short rows on the left side of the fabric (as seen in the hat pattern), but also how to do them on the right side of the fabric. It’s important to note that in this tutorials “right side” is always as opposed to “left side”, since in Tunisian crochet, you don’t turn the fabric.
You do left side short row shaping on the “picking up loops” part of a row. Simply pick up loops, but stop short of reaching the end, like so:
Work the loops off as usual.
When you’re ready to do a regular row again, you simply lift up a loop in every stitch of the previous row AND in every previously missed stitch:
Then work the loops off as usual.
Right side short row shaping happens on the “working loops off of the hook” part of the row.
Start by lifting a loop up in every stitch:
When working the loops off of the hook, stop before you reach the end. Here, I’ve got two more stitches to go (the loop closest to the head of the hook is the working loop and doesn’t count as a stitch)
You start the next row by lifting a loop up in the second vertical bar from the hook and in each subsequent stitch.
When you’re done doing your short row shaping, you work all of the loops off as normal:
Here is a swatch that I hope makes it easier to see what is going on.
I started with 15 stitches. Each short row misses 3 stitches, and this pattern continues until there are only 3 stitches left. Shaping on the left side:
Now shaping on the right side:
The whole swatch:
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