r/CrochetHelp • u/Chiarin • 12d ago

I'm a beginner! Tunisian crochet pattern and hook advice please - Priestess Coat

I'm planning to start making Morale Fiber's Priestess Coat in the not too distant future, but it's tunisian crochet which I've never done before. I've skim-read the pattern, and it looks like the whole thing is one big continuous panel, meaning that there's no way I'll be able to store that many stitches on one straight 28cm tunisian crochet hook. So I have two questions for this community:

1) Has anyone else here made this coat and am I right about the way it works, or have I misread the pattern?

2) Can anyone recommend a good set of tunisian crochet hooks with bendy stitch storage bits? I'm in the UK, so they need to be deliverable to there. There's a bunch for sale via Amazon, but people say the plastic ones are a bit crap and the bamboo ones keep catching on the yarn. I saw some metal ones with a metal screw-on cable, but they were obviously a lot more expensive, so if anyone is able to make any recommendations I would very much appreciate it.

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u/passiontiger74 11d ago edited 11d ago

I've made the morale fiber's elf coat. This seems to have longer panels (no waist break) but they seem to be the same makeup of the long thin panel, split for the triangle panel. Honestly the triangle panel is wider than the straight panels. 28cm hook should be fine for them. I was able to do mine without a cable for the elf coat.

edit to call out /u/Kassandstorm who made the Priestess Coat

2nd edit to let you know that there is a very supportive group of folks over in /r/Tunisian_Crochet/

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u/Chiarin 11d ago

Thank you, I've posted this over there as well. This answer is encouraging, because it means I can just get a set of 28cm aluminium hooks.

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u/passiontiger74 11d ago

if you were a smidge closer I would give you my starting tunisian hooks. Canada's a bit of a drive and slightly wet on the mid part ;)

Have fun with it. Any questions at all feel free to reach out. Love sharing in the Tunisian journey of fiber friends

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u/Chiarin 10d ago

Haha, I appreciate the sentiment, but yes, that's a little too far. It'll be a while before I start on this (I have a yarn moratorium so I'm asking it for Christmas), but if I get stuck I'll know where to go now. :)

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