
You will begin your work with a foundation chain and work into that. So, what does the "bar" refer to? When you look at the row that you're working stitches into, you'll see a loop, and there are two parts to the loop, these are called the bars. Although there is a version of Tunisian crochet that is worked in the horizontal bar, most of the Tunisian crochet stitches are worked around the vertical bars. In traditional crochet, we talk about "inserting through the loop" but in Tunisian crochet, we talk about working through the bars.


The most important thing to understand is where you will insert your hook. The basic stitches in Tunisian crochet are a little bit different. The basic stitches in standard crochet are things like single crochet, double crochet, etc.
