Beautiful hat and Brioche a facinating stitch.

I am almost 60 years old and was taught by my dad to knit many years ago. With health, kids, many moves, work etc my knitting was one of many loved pass times that fell by the way.

In the last one to two years however I have picked it up again, doing baby toques and mitts for the newborns at our tiny hospital. (I am a paramedic).

Brioche is a new stitch for me and I found it very difficult to wrap my brain around. Didn’t feel so bad when reading comments from others about how hard they were finding it. But I stuck with it and have now mastered it, last nite……even doing about 3 inches of 2 color (pink and white) it is beautiful.

I was hopping back and forth between two sites yours (with the (darkblue and off white) and megan.cc and noticed a possible miss print in yours that threw me……… it is the K row with the light yarn, the sl1,yo did not give me the set up for K2tog. I struggled and than did a comparison and found the other site instructs (yo,sl1,,K2tog) I tried that and BINGO I was back in business…yours instructs (sl1,yo).

I would hate for anyone to give up on the stitch because they have not searched enough to single this out.
I just thought you should know. And if I am missing an opportunity to do the stitch and have it work out let me know I will try it again.

Knitting again (with two colors thanks to you)
Cathy Allen

Sorry I didn’t reply sooner. You should start picking up 150 stitches at the edge of the blanket, not at the border fold line. Ideally, when you knit the first 5 rows of it and increase a few stitches on each side, you’ll get a 45° slope pointing towards the bottom/top borders of the blanket. Then the next 5 rows with decreases will give you the same 45° slope such that when you fold the border in half, it will match the slope of the first half. When you have, say, the top and the right borders unfolded, they would come close together in the first half, but then diverge. However, once you fold them, you should be all set.

Maybe the problem is that there is not enough slope with just a couple of increases/decreases on each side of the border so the 2 adjacent borders don’t come close together. In this case, you can try to do increases (and later decreases) in every row and not every other row as I suggested.

In row 4, repeat the pattern established in row 3, but instead of knitting the stitches, purl them. Use the brown yarn to purl brown stitches from the row before, and colored yarns to purl the colored stitches.

Thank you and Happy New Year,
Trang

Yes, the border will curl up at first. But once you finish the blanket, fold the border and sew it, it will be straight.

Yana