Knitting: Fixing Brioche Mistakes, part 3- picking up dropped stitches

This is the last in our series on fixing Brioche mistakes, and I learned something while doing it! How I have been fixing dropped stitches in brioche is almost correct- so I filmed all the segments for this video, noticed something was off in a filming section, double checked when I was editing, and figured out it looked ok, but wasn't quite right. I took the time to figure out what to do so it would be right, and this video is the result. Not quite as long as the original, but hopefully I'm able to convey what I learned today!

This video takes the classic idea of picking up stitches with a crochet hook, pulling loops through loops, and applies it to brioche, where every stitch has a wrap, and how to pull the loops as well as which loops go through what loops...... You can do it, once you get into the rhythm!

If you have never tried brioche knitting before, I highly recommend starting with brioche in the round, on which we have a whole series of videos- those are the videos in which I describe the brioche knitting process in great detail, and you learn the stitches with one color doing the knit rows, the other color doing the purl rows.I've also made a video on how knitting brioche flat is a little more challenging, but possible to master!

May your crafting be filled with joy and confidence!

Rebecca


Brioche Helpful Hints and Reminders
Brioche is a series of either knit or purled stitches and slipped stitches with yarn wrapped around them. One row will be brioche knit (brk, “bark”, knit a stitch with its wrap), slip a stitch and wrap it, etc; the other will be brioche purl (brp, “burp”, purl a stitch with its wrap), slip a stitch and wrap it, etc.

Each row is worked twice, once with color A, then again with color B. Therefore, even when knitting brioche flat, circular or double point needles must be used.

All stitches that need to be slipped should be slipped purlwise.

The slipped stitches are never the ones with the yarn-overs. If you find yourself slipping a yarn over, pause and figure out where you might have gotten off.

The worked stitches (brioche knit and brioche purl) after the setup row will always be a stitch and its wrap. If this is not the case, you may either be working the wrong stitch, or it may not have gotten a wrap on the last row. This can be fudged by picking up the strand that was not wrapped!

In two-color brioche, you are always slipping the color you are NOT working with. Therefore the wraps will always be a different color from the stitches they are wrapped around.

You are always bringing the working yarn forward before a slip stitch so it can wrap the slipped stitch. This means on a knit row, you bring the yarn forward before you slip the purl stitch, then bring the yarn over to the back before your next brioche knit stitch. On a purl row, your yarn will already be in front from brioche purling: slip the knit stitch, and bring the yarn over the right needle and back to the front for your next brioche purl .

There are many ways to bind off. The easiest, though not the most stretchy, is to *K1 P1, rep from * with one color in the established ribbing, brk or brp depending on the row, then cast off in the ribbing with the same color on the next row.

When working Brioche FLAT :
If both yarns are at the same end of the work, it is time to turn your work and start with color A (solid or dark).

If the yarns are at opposite ends of the work, DO NOT TURN the work- slide it back to the other end of the needles and work with color B (variegated or light).

The color that is more prominent, with clear “V”s popping out and running down the surface of the work, is the color that is working a brk row on that side. The other color is working a brp row.