#brioche shawl

[afewdroppedstitches]

Knitting at work! I'm running out of room on these needles and I still have several rows of increases to go. Thankfully my new knitting needles should be arriving tomorrow.

[affreca]

For Pride (or it’s just the next project I’m excited about), I finally started my Rainbow Noir shawl.  Pattern is Rose Gold by  Andrea Mowry, a big brioche shawl, designed for two gradient sets of fingering yarn.  

My main yarn is a fingering merino silk, spun out of two braids of a lovely rainbow gradient merino/silk top from Friends in Fiber (colorway Rainbow Noir).  The silk in the top was black, giving the rainbow gradient a nice rich base.  Since I had two braids, I just spun each ply end to end, with a plying bracelet to match up the final ends.  I started with the purple, because that’s my favorite.  

The contrast yarn is black with rainbow sparkles.  One ply is a black merino/silk blend, while the other is Glitzy Black, a blend of merino and trilobal rainbow nylon.  

Both yarns are fingering two plies, spun worsted.  Each is about 8 ounces, and 675 yards.  

[eriond]

constantly fighting The Urges [urges to cast on new knitting projects]

[comfortabletextiles]

I like this

[textillian]

Some quick pictures of the latest to come off the blocking board. The yarn is Fiber Optic Yarns Kashmir. The main color is the Vincent Unified Gradient, and the contrasting color is the gradient's terminal, Midnight. I am trying to decide whether to call it the Trajectory shawl or the Trajectory wrap.

[unfinishedsweaters]

SPRING FEVERISH (ORIGINAL) and SPRING FEVERISH (2024!)

The original Spring Feverish series ran from 2017 to 2019, probably not consistently—I have not looked over each of them to see exactly, but I think there were four and then I added one at random two years later. That seems like a really long time ago at this point, so it’s almost uncomfortable to promote them (I do really like the Miniature Moon one. Was one of the neater things I have made. I also like the garter one and the last one, although that one was abbreviated from a larger shawl and I kinda wish I’d finished writing the bigger version. I knit two of them! They must have been pretty engaging! I took cool photos of the rust-colored one!).

Now that I’m revisiting the idea (a pattern series under the constraints that everything had to be small projects, headband/neckerchiefs or at least kerchief-adjacent, and sort of decent for transitional weather both as projects and finished objects (so even without the kerchief/tiny shawl constraint, mittens wouldn’t work—they won’t be unpleasant to work on if it’s warm, but you can’t wear them right away)) in 2024, I’m wondering if I lost sight of the small-project aspect a little. All of these are much more involved; they’re probably more process-knitter friendly. They’re still one-skein designs, but they’ll take more than an afternoon from start to finish. I think it makes them more versatile, and I hope it won’t make them less appealing.

Anyway, old work! New work soon, but—the older work probably fits a slightly different (quicker) project impulse, while the new ones will be more contemplative.

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Shawl 11 | Yarn 1 | Yarn 2 | Pattern

I kinda forgot this project existed for a bit. But it's a lot easier on my injury than my other, larger projects so I'm happy to have found it again.

This is more of a Process Knit than a Product Knit so I wasn't really fussed about how I couldn't figure out a good way to make clean edges on brioche. However I kinda stumbled into a much better way than what I was doing before (which was like, slipping the first stitch purlwise and then immediately jumping into brioching even when it meant knitting/purling into the same stitch under it).

Instead! I'm always slipping the first stitch purlwise. Then the next two stitches are treated like kinda like double knitting (if it's a colour A dominate row, I'd slip the first stitch [colour A] purlwise, bring my yarn to the front and slip the second stitch [colour B] with yarn in front, then bring the yarn to the back and knit the third stitch before bringing it forward again to s1yo. For colour B on that row I would slip the first stitch [A] purlwise, slip the second stitch [B] purlwise like another selvedge stitch, keep the yarn behind and slip the third stitch [A] before bringing the yarn to the front to being briocheing with brp1). Probably not the most efficient way but I could NOT get my tension to work for those first couple stitches, this instantly looks better (the red marks on the second and third images point to about where I started doing this method instead of winging it).

[countthelions]

Shawl complete!! It is a very very cozy thing

[textillianfiber]

Closed off the second triangle. Also, the color of the gradient is getting closer to the terminal color being used as the contrasting color.

[afewdroppedstitches]

I'm on phase two of the shawl and loving it. I might need to buy a 60in set of needles though. These 40in ones are getting crowded.

[letissierdesigns]

Life in General

[exculis]

ok knitting brioche is both easier AND more fun than i expected but i dont think i like this color combo for brioche lol

[citizen-zero]

I love knitting I truly do bc you’ll be perusing Ravelry just scrolling through the current popular patterns and it’ll be like, 99 women offering lacy shawls and colorwork sweaters and brioche hats and cute little baby clothes, and 1 leather daddy bear who has 21 knitting patterns for sale, 15 of which are jockstraps

[annaplexis]

Working the selvage stitch like a brioche stitch, makes a very neat selvedge. Here I have used it on my latest shawl.

To do this:

Make a yarn over and slip the first stitch purlwise. Make sure to make the slipped stitch loose. Especially if you have a slanted edge, you should give the stitch a little tug. Otherwise the edge may turn out too tight.

When you get to the last stitch, knit it together with the yarn over.

[countthelions]

Adding some blues and greens to this beautiful shawl 💚

[textillianfiber]

Got Trajectory blocking.