Brioche Stitch

I've been signed up for the Knitting Daily email for a while now. At first, I found the daily emails frequently had great tips/info. More recently, though, they seem to be primarily about selling stuff with an occasional interesting tip - usually tied to selling something. That was the case again today.

This morning's email is titled "Learn Something New: The Brioche Stitch". I've been curious about this stitch and the email (web version here) does have very basic how-to instructions. However, as is the norm, to really learn anything, you need to buy something.

Being innately cheap, I googled "2-color brioche stitch" ... and found a fantastic site called "The Brioche Stitch" by Nancy Marchant with all kinds of great information. Her "Brioche Stitch In Color" page starts with a 2-color brioche stitch ...

2-color Plain Brioche - Right side

Then covers ...

3-color Plain Brioche - Right and Wrong side

And ...

4-color Plain Brioche - Right side

AND ...

5-color Plain Brioche - Right and Wrong side

And, you just have to love a home page with ...

Yes, the first thing you see on the home page is a book for sale, but the pages within the site have detailed information, tons of variations and great pictures. It's even set up to easily print out individual pages. What a great resource!!

I can't wait to really delve into this and, you know, if an innately cheap gal like myself were to buy a book on Brioche Stitch, this would be it.

In the meantime, since I know I don't have the time to dig in to the Brioche Stitch right now (sadly, I have too much work to do at the moment), I decided to write a quick blog post so I'll have all the info at the ready when all this work stuff calms down a bit.