Hello welcome to this page created to help you with creating your syncopated brioche knitting.
Working with 2-colour brioche you will have one colour which is dominant on one side of the knitting and your other/contrast colour will be dominant on the other side. Sometimes this is known as the light side and the dark side. Switching the stitch types so that the brioche knit stitches change to brioche purl and the brioche purls turn to brioche knits will swap the light side into a dark side and the dark side into a light side!
This is a very cool trick which can be employed to add an extra exciting dimension to brioche knit design without the need to learn any increase or decrease stitches.
I hope these videos will answer questions that you may have and give you some helpful hints to make your knitting more enjoyable.
Here is a tip I wanted to share about using stitch markers to help you know when you are starting the next pattern repeat.
Here is how to sew a seam in the flat piece of knitting to create your cowl.
Sewing in the ends of your brioche knitting is really very easy.
Always make sure that you have a good length of yarn to sew with and do it carefully to prevent it coming undone.
I will show you the different ways to do it.
If you prefer not to have to seam the knitting it can be done in the round.
Here is a little run through of how it would be done using the magic loop. Of course you can use a shorter circular needle if that is what you prefer to do. I did try knitting one of these cowls using some short dpn’s but there were too many stitches for that to be a good idea.
Now we turn to the important finishing process of blocking. In this film I am going to compare the two cowls Tweedle and Queen of Hearts when knitted in the round as opposed to knitted flat then seamed. See the difference that the blocking process makes and the effect of using a self striping yarn.