Hi Norman! I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that it's because of you that I picked up knitting! I have wanted to learn for years as my grandmother knitted and while she taught me crochet, we didn't get the time together I wish we did and she never got to teach me to knit. Through your videos, I've learned how to knit and ultimately, that has helped me to feel close to my grandmother who I miss dearly. Thank you so much, Norman! You're an excellent teacher with a wonderful presence. I wish you nothing but the best!
You are so patient knitting complexe stitch while explaining the process. It's confusing to watch! unbelievably, you can achieve the pattern without making a mistake 👏 amazing 🎉
What a great tuto !A thousand THanks !!! I FINALLY had my lightbulb moment when you said brioche knitting is basically double knitting. Ahhhh ! then everything clicked.
Vielen lieben Dank lieber Norman, das war eine geballte Ladung Patentwissenschaft. Ich liebe deine fundierten Infos. Mehr als diese Video braucht es nicht ❤😊
Das freut mich sehr! Naja, es gibt noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten aber mit Blick auf die Uhr dachte ich, dass ich das in nem anderen video erklären muss 😅
OH! so glad you said that, the kitting both at once was confusing to me. You have made regular brioche so simple! Thanks! Have wanted to do this for years
Glad it was helpful! And yeah it kinda is..i dunno...i am happy for everyone who can make it work. I just can't and I feel there is no shame in admitting it .)
Thank you so much Norman. Can't wait to knit something with this. Another awesome tutorial. I really appreciate all ur hard work. Thanks so much. Have a great day or night.😊
Thanks, Norman. My first attempts at Brioche were a hat and a shawl with lots of increases + decreases. Made a ton of mistakes, dropped stitches, even chose poorly contrasting colours, and had to frog the whole shawl. I now feel like an expert because when I knit a plain 2 colour brioche hat with only decreases at the crown, in addition to finally figuring out continental knitting, it just flew off my needles. So glad to see you suggest just picking up all the stitches you can when there is a big mistake. I would often take a day or 2 off to relax and go at it again. Lifelines are a knitter's best friend imo.
For the first 5 years of my knitting career, I almost exclusively knitted brioche because I found knit purl patterns so exhausting. I was quite puzzled when, later on, people told me it was difficult and I was like: how? Why? 🤣
There’s a Victorian Polka pattern I’ve been wanting to knit for a while so I’m excited you came out with this tutorial! Excellent job as always and thank you so much!
I just love your instructions! I learnt to knit in Finland and we all knit German style ( Continental method). Hence I knit just like you knit and even though I have knitted 65 years, I find some new tip or get reminded about something I have not done for couple of decades. That reminding gets me to plan some forgotten design. Now that we have such a total chaos in politics here in the USA, I find it calming to watch your videos along some cooking videos before the bed time. For couple of hours before sleep I knit or crochet watching videos the same time and leave the news for the next morning to maintain my sanity. Thank you Norman for your excellent videos!
Are you a mind reader? Because I have been deep diving into all videos pertaining to brioche knitting (especially yours!) This came out right on time ❤….. you basically taught me how to knit and the way you go into so much detail has been instrumental in my understanding of how knitting works ❤❤❤
Absolutely brilliant 😍. I just finished a big brioche scarf shawl before this video - so many things I could have used but now have in my back pocket! I did employ a life line every 5 rows though 😅. You are the best Norman.
As always a brilliant, clear to understand tutorial. I have done brioche but always hesitated doing another, but after watching this, I feel more confident. Thank you.❤
I just attempted a brioche hat, but the instructions were terrible! After a few rows, I had a weird lumpy mess. I’ve (successfully) used the brioche stitch before, but not in the round. I see now where things went wrong and what was missing in the instructions. Thank you!
What a wonderful, clear tutorial. I tried doing the two colour brioche section on Stephen West's Go Go Dynamo shawl, for the first time. At first I did it perfectly, but then somehow dropped a stitch and didn't know how to fix it and made a big mess. So i frogged it back and redid it. On the next attempt, somehow I did something wrong, I think maybe I missed a row. I ended up with the right side looking like alternating colours of the brioche knit stitch only (almost like double knitting), and the back had every stitch looking like the part that is supposed to be between the knits in brioche. It was gorgeous, so I left it and continued doing my mistake (which I had somehow memorized. Lol) and I was to annoyed to unravel it again when it was so pretty. I really dont know what i did wrong, I didnt try to figure it out. I'll probably know what I did wrong once I try doing it properly. But I really want to knit some proper brioche yet. I'll definitely use your tutorial.
@NimbleNeedles lol. It's possible. But it's pretty anyway. I'm going to do up some practice swatches following this video before I attempt it again, though
I do 2-color 1 pass brioche continental style. I have knit 2 entire sweaters with this technique and have refined it quite a bit. I think the reason you are finding your technique flawed is that you missed one very important part of it: ALWAYS hold one of the yarn colors on top consistently. I hold the “knit” color on top for brioche. If you don’t do that, your legs will cross sometimes. I noticed on your swatch that did happen. Try it! You might want to issue a correction… Otherwise, I do it exactly the same way as you (and a few other ways when I’m bored). Another interesting method is to hod the 2 yarns slingshot style, like a cast on. Hold the purl color to the front and the knit to the back. You actually end up feeling a little like you are doing an Italian cast on, but you are just putting the needle into the upcoming stitch in between the two. I’ll have to make a video to show different techniques I have figured out. I’m Salinda on Ravelry and both Newspaper pullovers (pink and blue) are knit in 2-color 1 pass brioche continental style.
I also do my increases and decreases in one row. You will see that on my versions of Cowltopus. It’s quite simple. I guess it’s called a branch increase? @Sockmatician shows these methods very clearly, but he does it English style. I’ve just modified his methods for Continental and it’s much easier.
yeah, reversible increases are easy to do in double knitting. But most brioche patterns do not use them and it would be confusing to suddenly incorporate advanced lifted increases that barely have a name into a tutorial geared towards new knitters.
The reason why I find it difficult is because i have to think of two many things at the same time and I can't properly see the underlying stitches - and not because I switch the dominant color at the end of a row. I personally couldn't follow a chart (or worse, written instructions) if my life depended on it. It just doesn't work. yet I can easily reverse-engineer about every pattern from a simple picture. Even when I buy a pattern, I only knit from the pictures and never from the actual instructions. And just for reference, I typically don't use the Italian cast-on either because it has me confused as well for similar reasons. It's too easy and fast for my brain to cope. So, kindly, let'S celebrate that we are all different and there are multiple methods that work for each of us.
Instead of doing a long-tail cast on of purl stitches, hold the yarn in your right hand and needles on the left to cast on knit stitches. Your first row is ready to knit with the right side facing.
Well, most people watching will find this quite hard to do and very confusing. Whereas the longtail purl cast-on is actually extremely easy to do for everyon who has done the knit version already.
2 color brioche is so beautiful and floofy.....brioche is also a very stretchy fabric, so it's not ideal to use stretchy yarn fibers like cotton that seem to grow coniinually....you'll just wind up with the incredibly growing yarn blob
Does anyone find brioche simpler than fisherman? I love the fabric, but hate doing brioche. Fisherman's rib stitch is the easiest and fastest way to get the same results.
I'd say, we are all different and it's great that the two methods exist. I find fisherman's rib stitch just needlessly complicated. I can easily knit brioche without even looking. FIsherman's rib, you constantly need to pay attention - well I have to at any rate.
@@a.b.r.6248 das ist wirklich das persönliche Empfinden. Ich stricke brioche lieber klassisch mit Umschlag. Warum sollte ich eine Masche vollständig Abstricken, wenn ich sie tiefergestochen wieder auflöse? Das ist unlogisch. Für mich ist es einfacher, eine Masche ohne Umschlag mit einem zu versehen und eine mit Umschlag zusammenzustricken
I will say that for me, as an English knitter, brioche looks a lot easier when continental knitters do it, especially Norwegian knitters, since they can just kind of "scoop" the yarn for the yarn over. Whereas I have to wrap the yarn each time, and I end up with insert needle, wrap, wrap, insert needle.
When you are brioche-stiching on the round, why not using an uneven number? That way, you would not have to bother about pearling or switcing between the even an uneven rounds
the brioche stitch is essentially a 1x1 rib stitch. If you cast on an odd number of stitches for a hat with a 1x1 rib stitch, you will have 1 knit stitch at the beginning and 1 knit stitch right at the end creating a very thick and noticeable ridge that is 2 stitches wide instead of the usual 1. The reason why you switch between knit and purl rows has to do with the fact that (and I thought I demonstrated that) you first knit one round for the front and then one round for the back. It is not related to your cast-on at all.
Thank you very much for all your videos. You’re one of my favorites knitting channel. I enjoin you to watch this video from the channel Artisanat du nord. th-cam.com/video/QlYypKKYKso/w-d-xo.htmlsi=phve-sYBtQvckm1r Dominique explain a very easy way to knit brioche/fisherman ribs stitch and the fabric is more tight and regular. It’s very easy because it’s very visual, after the 3d or 4th row and, once you’ve already understood well the process, you just have to look your pattern to know what you have to do. I also took needles 1 or 2 mm smaller. It was a good discovery for me after many bad attempts. Have a nice Sunday (which is misnamed today near Bordeaux 😏 🌧️)
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This is the only brioche stitch video that makes sense. I was so confused with every other video I watched in yt. Thank you for making this. 🎉
You are so welcome!
Hi Norman! I wanted to reach out to you and let you know that it's because of you that I picked up knitting! I have wanted to learn for years as my grandmother knitted and while she taught me crochet, we didn't get the time together I wish we did and she never got to teach me to knit. Through your videos, I've learned how to knit and ultimately, that has helped me to feel close to my grandmother who I miss dearly. Thank you so much, Norman! You're an excellent teacher with a wonderful presence. I wish you nothing but the best!
Aww..thank you 🥰
Beautiful, clear, perfect video!! Thank you , Norman, for all you do!!
You are so patient knitting complexe stitch while explaining the process. It's confusing to watch! unbelievably, you can achieve the pattern without making a mistake 👏 amazing 🎉
What a great tuto !A thousand THanks !!! I FINALLY had my lightbulb moment when you said brioche knitting is basically double knitting. Ahhhh ! then everything clicked.
Happy to hear I could teach such an experienced knitter as you still something, Nicole ❤️
Thank Norman. A superb tutorial. ❤
You are so full of knowledge! Brioche all in one place! Thank you so much. You are a treasure XOX
Thank you so much Norman! I'm very excited to truly tackle brioche knitting and appreciate your style of making tutorials! 💖
happy to hear that! Have fun trying it out.
PS: consider starting with a small project without too many increases and decreases, first :P
The life line trick with hole in the cable needle is brilliant!
Yes, Yes, YES! Its next on my list! This is just what i need.❤
awesome. glad to help!
Than You for that fishing line life line trick! 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Have a a good day keep warm ❤❤
my pleasure!
This is awesome, thanks! Especially the stitch fixing at the end, quite helpful.
Love this comprehensive guide! Once again, a brilliant video, thank you Norman
That was a great video thank you. You’re such a good teacher.❤
Thank you so much!
You are such a good professional teacher. Thank you so much from Montreal! ❤
Vielen lieben Dank lieber Norman, das war eine geballte Ladung Patentwissenschaft. Ich liebe deine fundierten Infos. Mehr als diese Video braucht es nicht ❤😊
Das freut mich sehr! Naja, es gibt noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten aber mit Blick auf die Uhr dachte ich, dass ich das in nem anderen video erklären muss 😅
Thankyou Norman, learning to develop my knitting skills with Your YT content is a blessing. Gods' Best✌️💛
happy to be part of your knitting journey
OH! so glad you said that, the kitting both at once was confusing to me. You have made regular brioche so simple! Thanks! Have wanted to do this for years
Glad it was helpful! And yeah it kinda is..i dunno...i am happy for everyone who can make it work. I just can't and I feel there is no shame in admitting it .)
Thank you so much Norman. Can't wait to knit something with this. Another awesome tutorial. I really appreciate all ur hard work. Thanks so much. Have a great day or night.😊
night here in Vienna now :)
Thanks, Norman. My first attempts at Brioche were a hat and a shawl with lots of increases + decreases. Made a ton of mistakes, dropped stitches, even chose poorly contrasting colours, and had to frog the whole shawl. I now feel like an expert because when I knit a plain 2 colour brioche hat with only decreases at the crown, in addition to finally figuring out continental knitting, it just flew off my needles. So glad to see you suggest just picking up all the stitches you can when there is a big mistake. I would often take a day or 2 off to relax and go at it again. Lifelines are a knitter's best friend imo.
For the first 5 years of my knitting career, I almost exclusively knitted brioche because I found knit purl patterns so exhausting. I was quite puzzled when, later on, people told me it was difficult and I was like: how? Why? 🤣
There’s a Victorian Polka pattern I’ve been wanting to knit for a while so I’m excited you came out with this tutorial! Excellent job as always and thank you so much!
I just love your instructions! I learnt to knit in Finland and we all knit German style ( Continental method). Hence I knit just like you knit and even though I have knitted 65 years, I find some new tip or get reminded about something I have not done for couple of decades. That reminding gets me to plan some forgotten design.
Now that we have such a total chaos in politics here in the USA, I find it calming to watch your videos along some cooking videos before the bed time. For couple of hours before sleep I knit or crochet watching videos the same time and leave the news for the next morning to maintain my sanity.
Thank you Norman for your excellent videos!
aww..that's very lovely. For me, too, knitting is a way to forget the worries of the day!
Are you a mind reader? Because I have been deep diving into all videos pertaining to brioche knitting (especially yours!) This came out right on time ❤….. you basically taught me how to knit and the way you go into so much detail has been instrumental in my understanding of how knitting works ❤❤❤
Glad it was/is helpful!
Thank you for an amazing tutorial!
Absolutely brilliant 😍. I just finished a big brioche scarf shawl before this video - so many things I could have used but now have in my back pocket! I did employ a life line every 5 rows though 😅. You are the best Norman.
Gracias! qué bien lo explicas, despacio y con calma para poder aprender y verlo bien. ☺
Thank you so much for this clear explanation of brioche knitting 🙏🏼❤️
Most welcome 😊
Thank you so much, Norman!
As always a brilliant, clear to understand tutorial. I have done brioche but always hesitated doing another, but after watching this, I feel more confident. Thank you.❤
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Norman, I look forward to your videos. You teach me and you are a feel good video.
Wow another great video. Thanks for the details 😀. Greetings from Copenhagen 😊
Thanks for watching!
Greetings back from Vienna
Thank you!
I'm going to use this for sweater sleeve cuffs!
كل فديو مفيد واعلى مستوى للتعليم اشكرك اريد الحلقة السحرة فى الشغل الدائرى
This is great, so useful many thanks from the UK
You're very welcome!
Thank you for all your video-tutorials ❤ ! Vielen Dank!
Glad you like them & Gern geschehen!
Thanks Norman. My next project is the Shusui Shrug. I tried this a couple months ago and gave up. But I won't let it beat me.
❤️
I just attempted a brioche hat, but the instructions were terrible! After a few rows, I had a weird lumpy mess. I’ve (successfully) used the brioche stitch before, but not in the round. I see now where things went wrong and what was missing in the instructions. Thank you!
happy to hear that! So, maybe give it a try again. It's a great pattern for hats, etc because it's just so warm!
What a wonderful, clear tutorial. I tried doing the two colour brioche section on Stephen West's Go Go Dynamo shawl, for the first time. At first I did it perfectly, but then somehow dropped a stitch and didn't know how to fix it and made a big mess. So i frogged it back and redid it. On the next attempt, somehow I did something wrong, I think maybe I missed a row. I ended up with the right side looking like alternating colours of the brioche knit stitch only (almost like double knitting), and the back had every stitch looking like the part that is supposed to be between the knits in brioche. It was gorgeous, so I left it and continued doing my mistake (which I had somehow memorized. Lol) and I was to annoyed to unravel it again when it was so pretty. I really dont know what i did wrong, I didnt try to figure it out. I'll probably know what I did wrong once I try doing it properly. But I really want to knit some proper brioche yet. I'll definitely use your tutorial.
Well, there are tons of related knitting stich patterns, like half brioche, etc. Maybe that's what you ended up with.
@NimbleNeedles lol. It's possible. But it's pretty anyway. I'm going to do up some practice swatches following this video before I attempt it again, though
wonderful !
I do 2-color 1 pass brioche continental style. I have knit 2 entire sweaters with this technique and have refined it quite a bit. I think the reason you are finding your technique flawed is that you missed one very important part of it: ALWAYS hold one of the yarn colors on top consistently. I hold the “knit” color on top for brioche. If you don’t do that, your legs will cross sometimes. I noticed on your swatch that did happen. Try it! You might want to issue a correction… Otherwise, I do it exactly the same way as you (and a few other ways when I’m bored). Another interesting method is to hod the 2 yarns slingshot style, like a cast on. Hold the purl color to the front and the knit to the back. You actually end up feeling a little like you are doing an Italian cast on, but you are just putting the needle into the upcoming stitch in between the two. I’ll have to make a video to show different techniques I have figured out. I’m Salinda on Ravelry and both Newspaper pullovers (pink and blue) are knit in 2-color 1 pass brioche continental style.
I also do my increases and decreases in one row. You will see that on my versions of Cowltopus. It’s quite simple. I guess it’s called a branch increase? @Sockmatician shows these methods very clearly, but he does it English style. I’ve just modified his methods for Continental and it’s much easier.
The increases I do now are completely reversible
yeah, reversible increases are easy to do in double knitting. But most brioche patterns do not use them and it would be confusing to suddenly incorporate advanced lifted increases that barely have a name into a tutorial geared towards new knitters.
The reason why I find it difficult is because i have to think of two many things at the same time and I can't properly see the underlying stitches - and not because I switch the dominant color at the end of a row. I personally couldn't follow a chart (or worse, written instructions) if my life depended on it. It just doesn't work. yet I can easily reverse-engineer about every pattern from a simple picture. Even when I buy a pattern, I only knit from the pictures and never from the actual instructions.
And just for reference, I typically don't use the Italian cast-on either because it has me confused as well for similar reasons. It's too easy and fast for my brain to cope.
So, kindly, let'S celebrate that we are all different and there are multiple methods that work for each of us.
@ so true
This makes me hungry thank you so much.
Any time!
Thank you
So beautiful
My mom and grandma knitted brioche. Only we name it patentsteek. We use it most of the time for shawls here in the Netherlands.
Yeah, in Germany we call it "Patent" or "Patentmuster" as well
I always love the yarn you use in your tutorials. Can I ask what kind is it?
Schachenmayr Catania Grande
@@NimbleNeedlesthank you so much!
P.S. Recommend Nancy Marchant’s Knitting Fresh Brioche and Knitting Brioche Lace. Lots of photos to go with the techniques.
yeah, those are decent books. you are right :)
Instead of doing a long-tail cast on of purl stitches, hold the yarn in your right hand and needles on the left to cast on knit stitches. Your first row is ready to knit with the right side facing.
Well, most people watching will find this quite hard to do and very confusing. Whereas the longtail purl cast-on is actually extremely easy to do for everyon who has done the knit version already.
Would you show how to cast off brioche?
oh...dang...i totally forgot that bit, lol. well...hm..i'll try to record a tutorial for my second channel at the soonest.
2 color brioche is so beautiful and floofy.....brioche is also a very stretchy fabric, so it's not ideal to use stretchy yarn fibers like cotton that seem to grow coniinually....you'll just wind up with the incredibly growing yarn blob
Does anyone find brioche simpler than fisherman? I love the fabric, but hate doing brioche. Fisherman's rib stitch is the easiest and fastest way to get the same results.
Agreed!
I'd say, we are all different and it's great that the two methods exist. I find fisherman's rib stitch just needlessly complicated. I can easily knit brioche without even looking. FIsherman's rib, you constantly need to pay attention - well I have to at any rate.
@@a.b.r.6248 das ist wirklich das persönliche Empfinden. Ich stricke brioche lieber klassisch mit Umschlag. Warum sollte ich eine Masche vollständig Abstricken, wenn ich sie tiefergestochen wieder auflöse? Das ist unlogisch. Für mich ist es einfacher, eine Masche ohne Umschlag mit einem zu versehen und eine mit Umschlag zusammenzustricken
I will say that for me, as an English knitter, brioche looks a lot easier when continental knitters do it, especially Norwegian knitters, since they can just kind of "scoop" the yarn for the yarn over. Whereas I have to wrap the yarn each time, and I end up with insert needle, wrap, wrap, insert needle.
I’ve been using brioche stitch a lot lately and finding really easy!
When you are brioche-stiching on the round, why not using an uneven number? That way, you would not have to bother about pearling or switcing between the even an uneven rounds
the brioche stitch is essentially a 1x1 rib stitch.
If you cast on an odd number of stitches for a hat with a 1x1 rib stitch, you will have 1 knit stitch at the beginning and 1 knit stitch right at the end creating a very thick and noticeable ridge that is 2 stitches wide instead of the usual 1.
The reason why you switch between knit and purl rows has to do with the fact that (and I thought I demonstrated that) you first knit one round for the front and then one round for the back. It is not related to your cast-on at all.
Thank you very much for all your videos. You’re one of my favorites knitting channel.
I enjoin you to watch this video from the channel Artisanat du nord.
th-cam.com/video/QlYypKKYKso/w-d-xo.htmlsi=phve-sYBtQvckm1r Dominique explain a very easy way to knit brioche/fisherman ribs stitch and the fabric is more tight and regular. It’s very easy because it’s very visual, after the 3d or 4th row and, once you’ve already understood well the process, you just have to look your pattern to know what you have to do. I also took needles 1 or 2 mm smaller.
It was a good discovery for me after many bad attempts.
Have a nice Sunday (which is misnamed today near Bordeaux 😏 🌧️)
yeah, I do have a tutorial on the Fisherman's rib stitch as well: th-cam.com/video/-RMh8smt9zE/w-d-xo.html