Tunisian Crochet Mosaic
Sun, 09 Mar
|Hotel Realm
Explore this technique from beginning to end with nothing but a Tunisian crochet hook and two colours of yarn. Tunisian mosaic patterns do not change colours mid row, and there is no carrying of floats along the back of the work.
Time & Location
09 Mar 2025, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm AEDT
Hotel Realm, 18 National Circuit, Barton ACT 2600, Australia
About the event
Explore this technique from beginning to end with nothing but a Tunisian crochet hook and two colours of yarn. Tunisian mosaic is an extremely popular technique and learning it is not as hard as you might think!
Tunisian mosaic patterns do not change colours mid row and there is no carrying of floats along the back of the work. Each row of Tunisian stitches is made in one colour. The mosaic effect is created with overlay stitches over the top of the row below it.
If you are already familiar with crochet mosaic, you will see some similarities in doing Tunisian mosaic. The best thing is that regardless of working flat or in the round, you’ll never need to cut your yarn like you would if working 1 row crochet mosaic.
This workshop is for intermediate Tunisian crocheters.
What you will learn
How to work in Tunisian crochet mosaic colourwork
(Optional) How to work mosaic in the round using a cabled, single ended hook.
Materials and tools
2 contrasting colours of non-splitting 8 ply yarn. It is recommended you do not learn with cotton in this workshop
Single ended or interchangeable Tunisian crochet hook with short cable. If using 8 ply, no smaller than 6mm. If required, custom hooks may be pre-ordered via https://payhip.com/Abbeymade/catch-hooks which Abbey can bring to the lesson
(Optional) If you want to learn an in-the-round method at the end of the lesson, you must have a interchangeable hook with a cable at least 50cm long with you.
Pre-requisite skills
Basic understanding of Tunisian crochet
What's included
3 hours of expert instruction from one of Australia's leading Tunisian crochet designers and facilitators Abbeymade in a class of a maximum of ten participants
Afternoon tea including a light snack and tea and coffee
VIP 2-day pass to the Australian Yarn Show from March 8th to 9th at Hotel Realm including:
Australian Yarn Show 2025 Show bag
One coffee voucher per day (Saturday and Sunday) for barista coffee cart
One digital access pass to all the talks on the main stage
Please note that the digital access pass will not be activated until a couple of weeks after the conclusion of the Show.
About the facilitator
Abbeymade is a leading Tunisian crochet designer and workshop facilitator.
Tunisian Crochet was the first yarn craft that she learned. Starting in 2012 and learning exclusively from library books, Abbey absorbed everything she could find about the craft. It didn't take her long to feel that the emphasis on blankets and washcloths was unwarranted, and there's only so many shawls a girl could wear. Where were the nicely draping wearables and properly fitting garments?
She has been experimenting and pushing the boundaries of Tunisian Crochet ever since. In such a short space of time, Abbey can see how much has changed. There is a huge emphasis on size inclusivity, yarn inclusivity and a demand that designers provide proper instructions rather than simple "recipes". Abbey loves that she is part of the growing trend to "do better" and is not simply pumping design after design out for the sake of a few more instagram followers.
While designing is a "side-hustle" for Abbey, she tends to fill every spare moment (and even moments that aren't really spare), to crochet, to write patterns, to tech edit and to help other designers out as a virtual assistant (Abbey’s really good at Ravelry!).
Abbey lives in Sydney, Australia with her hook making husband Haemish of @Catch_hooks fame, their daughter and a beautiful border collie.