But you know me, I like to see those fingers moving in a video, and the drawings weren't telling me much that helped me. So here are two videos.
Notice that she is working two-color in the round, not on the flat. I didn't go looking for videos for on the flat because I like knitting in the round so much.
When you do increases and decreases, you give up the reversibility of brioche. As Suzanne says, it doesn't become ugly. But if you are interested in brioche specifically because it's reversible, you need to find or create patterns that don't need increases or decreases. For example, you can make a jumper bottom up with a straight body, but then the sleeves will be the same width for their entire length. This is more like a jacket than a jumper. OTOH, the decreases in a jumper sleeve go next to the side "seams" and are not as visible as the increases in a raglan jumper.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Now, how do you get out of your brioche? Let's go to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywS6e56dvjk&list=PLLKJ9GuhEEwmWxUv-bPJi64wQfLWeeVP4&index=12
Get that? Now that's just how Suzanne does it, but it looks nice and neat and that's what you want, an attractive piece of work. Here's Suzanne's entire channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/knittingSuzanne/playlists
So there's one more skill into the kit.
This one is specifically for two-color brioche and shows the
knit round increase.
You slip the stitch as usual,
then start the K2TOG as usual, but instead of taking the stitch off, you wrap
your yarn again and go into the same place you just did a K2TOG. You go in from
the front. This is different from plain knitting where you can do a KF/B
increase if you don’t like m1 increases.
Then it shows what to do on your next round, a purl round. When
you come to the triple stitch where the add is, you slip with a YO, purl the
middle stitch that was added, then slip the third stitch again with a YO, and
that gets you back the correct color sequence.
This is the same knitter’s video for decreases.
Notice that she is working two-color in the round, not on the flat. I didn't go looking for videos for on the flat because I like knitting in the round so much.
When you do increases and decreases, you give up the reversibility of brioche. As Suzanne says, it doesn't become ugly. But if you are interested in brioche specifically because it's reversible, you need to find or create patterns that don't need increases or decreases. For example, you can make a jumper bottom up with a straight body, but then the sleeves will be the same width for their entire length. This is more like a jacket than a jumper. OTOH, the decreases in a jumper sleeve go next to the side "seams" and are not as visible as the increases in a raglan jumper.
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
Now, how do you get out of your brioche? Let's go to the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywS6e56dvjk&list=PLLKJ9GuhEEwmWxUv-bPJi64wQfLWeeVP4&index=12
Get that? Now that's just how Suzanne does it, but it looks nice and neat and that's what you want, an attractive piece of work. Here's Suzanne's entire channel.
https://www.youtube.com/user/knittingSuzanne/playlists
So there's one more skill into the kit.
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