This collection is dedicated to the gorgeous brioche stitch in all its variations.
If you are after a squishy stitch pattern for a warm textured hat or some other seamless project, consider checkered brioche—the easiest variation of brioche stitch with all the benefits of this amazing pattern and none of the confusion. We’ve already discussed a way to add this stitch pattern to a project worked flat. If […]
What happens when we combine brioche and garter stitches? Checkered brioche – a stitch that is highly-textured and squishy while also sturdy and easy to knit. Oh. and there is no purling involved Just as it is the case with the honeycomb brioche stitch, the fabric formed by checkered brioche does not look the same
If you’ve ever tried brioche knitting and it seemed to be complicated or confusing, chances are – the method you used was not a good fit for you. Don’t give up on this beautifully squishy texture. There are four ways to make brioche stitch. They are compatible with any knitting style, and one of those
How do we bind off stitches of a brioche project without suffocating the beautiful brioche texture? We form a moderately elastic edge that looks like a puffy brioche-like chain of stitches, and we bind off all stitches in pattern. This way, we make sure the edge is fully reversible. How do we do it? We
When we are looking for an all-over stitch pattern with rich texture and moderate stretch, fisherman’s rib (also known as half brioche stitch, or half English rib) is almost always a good choice. This stitch is a result of a happy marriage between brioche stitch and “knit 1, purl 1” ribbing, and it gives us
If you’ve ever worked in brioche stitch (also known as English rib), you know that it is a fairly easy stitch pattern as long as we understand the logic behind it. And that logic is simple – basically, we work in a version of a “knit 1, purl 1” ribbing, but we treat yarn over
To see a dropped stitch in a project is not fun. To see a dropped stitch in a project worked in brioche stitch (also known as English rib) is scary. It stops being scary when we understand how brioche fabric is built. Once we know where all those messy strands belong, fixing a dropped stitch
Increasing stitches in a brioche pattern seems to be a complicated task. Scary-looking abbreviations like brk-yo-brk and brp-yo-brp don’t help one bit to change that impression. But the truth is – brioche increases are as easy as any other increases we make in knitting. If you’ve been shying away from adding shaping to your brioche
We’ve already discussed how we can make honeycomb brioche stitch when we knit back and forth. Now, let’s take a look at a way to create the gorgeous honeycomb texture when we work in the round. The simple four-round repeat explained in this tutorial will allow you to make cozy cowls, hats, mittens, socks and
One day, a lady came to a yarn store that I was overseeing at that time. She brought a gorgeous handmade scarf and asked me to figure out the stitch pattern used to make it. She said that she tried to decipher the pattern but couldn’t. As she put it – “it is some kind
