Brioche Knitting Series - Inserting and Working With a Lifeline

This is part seven of a seven part series on brioche knitting.

This part demonstrates two ways of inserting a lifeline into your work, either deliberately in anticipation of making a mistake (i.e. in intervals) or after-the-fact when you happen to notice a mistake in your work (in the row just before the mistake).

I demonstrate this on a flat piece of two-color brioche knitting that has a salvage edge on each side. I used an Italian tubular cast-on. This style of casting on is demonstrated within this series. This same technique may also be translated to circular knitting in the round.

Inserting a lifeline in a row of stitches allows you to safely remove your main knitting needle and "rip" the stitches down to the lifeline. In essence, a lifeline acts as a needle not allowing any of the stitches to move beyond that point. Once you have reached the lifeline, it is easy to then place the stitches back onto a smaller gauge needle allowing to to then knit them back onto your normal sized needle and to then commence with your project. Don't live with a mistake or start all over. Use lifelines in your work!

Thank you for your feedback! This video will take the place of any prior video on "lifelines."

Links to the other parts within this series are:

“The Italian Cast-On:”    • Brioche Knitting Series - The Italian...  
"Basic Brioche Knitting:”    • Brioche Knitting Series - Basic Brioc...  
“How to Correct a Mistake in Brioche Knitting:”    • Brioche Knitting Series – How to Corr...  
“How to Cable in Brioche Knitting:”    • Brioche Knitting Series - How to Cabl...  
“How to Weave in Ends in Brioche Knitting:”    • Brioche Knitting Series - Weaving in ...  
“How to Bind Off in Brioche Knitting (Italian):    • The Italian Tubular Cast-Off for Brio...  

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