Crochet Magazine

Tapestry Tutorial

HOW TO WORK TAPESTRY CROCHET

Crochet colorwork is one of my all-time favorite types of crochet. But it can be intimidating for some. Part of that probably stems from the fact that there are several types of colorwork (mosaic, intarsia, Fair Isle and tapestry) and determining which to use can be confusing. Most of the time, you will find that a combination of techniques will produce the perfect fabric, but in this tutorial, we are going to focus on one technique.

With tapestry) as you take the items on and off. For the projects in this issue, we are going to focus on tapestry crochet techniques for single and double crochet projects that are worked flat.

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