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The first step in working Tunisian crochet mesh stitch: Crochet a foundation chain. You’ll want to make your starting chain a multiple of 2 + 3 stitches.

Tunisian Crochet Mesh Stitch Row 1: Work as for Afghan Stitch.

Tunisian Crochet Mesh Stitch

Tunisian Crochet Mesh Stitch

Tunisian Crochet Mesh Stitch

Tunisian Crochet Mesh Stitch

Here’s how the completed stitch looks. So far so good, right?

Next, you’re going to work a yarn-over. Wrap your yarn around your hook from back to front, then gently manipulate it back out of the way towards the back of the work. At the same time, you want to skip the next vertical bar.

Next, you’re going to work an afghan stitch into the next vertical bar after the one you just skipped.

Here’s a work-in-progress photo showing me wrapping the yarn to work the afghan stitch.

In this photo, you can see both the completed afghan stitch and the lacy effect made by the previous yarnover.

This pattern consists of afghan stitches alternated with yarnovers, all the way across the row. So the next step is to work another yarnover and then skip the next vertical bar. Then work another afghan stitch, and so on.

You’ll end the row with an afghan stitch in the last vertical bar.

Do not turn at the end of the row. The right side of the work will always be facing you.

However, you do want to work one chain stitch, similar to a turning chain, but without actually turning. Here’s how the work looks when the turning chain has been completed.

The next step is to complete the return pass. You’re going to work this almost exactly the same as you do in afghan stitch, treating the yarnovers just like any other stitch. Wrap the yarn over your crochet hook…

…and pull it through 2 loops on your hook. Repeat all the way across the row until you have only one active loop left on your hook.

To work rows 3 and up, simply repeat row 2.

Afghan stitches will be stacked on top of afgan stitches, and yarnovers will be stacked on top of yarnovers.

Last Row of Tunisian Crochet Mesh Stitch: Work 1 Slip Stitch in Each Stitch Across, Including the Yarn-Overs

Here you can see my crochet hook pointing to the next vertical bar in the row. I’m going to work a slip stitch into this vertical bar.

Here you can see my crochet hook inserted in the next vertical bar in the row. I’m now in the process of working a slip stitch into this vertical bar.

Wrap yarn over your crochet hook…

…and pull it through both the vertical bar and your active loop to complete the slip stitch. Here’s how the completed slip stitch looks.

Next, you’re going to slip stitch into the closest yarn-over. In this picture, you can see my crochet hook pointing at it. The yarn-overs can sometimes be a little tricky to spot, but if you worked the previous row correctly, it’s there.

Here you can see how I’ve inserted my hook under the yarn-over stitch in preparation for completing a slip stitch in this spot.

Wrap the yarn over your crochet hook in preparation for completing the slip stitch.

Grab the yarn with your crochet hook and pull it through both the vertical bar and the active loop on your crochet hook to complete the slip stitch.

Here’s how it looks at this point with the slip stitch completed. Continue working slip stitches in each stitch all the way across the row.

Here’s how the piece looks after all the slip stitches have been completed. Now it’s time to finish the piece. There are bunches of different ways you can proceed with the finishing.