All Brioche, All the Time

I’m spending much of my knitting time right now knitting up samples for the introductory two-color brioche in-the-round class I’ll be teaching at the Texas Fleece & Fiber Festival this weekend, and I’d forgotten how much fun this stitch is! Especially when it’s knit in the round, I get into a groove and this goes on autopilot. There’s a rhythmicity to the brioche stitches that is very pleasing to me.

Brioche is one of those knitting techniques — and there are many of them — that looks hard but once I learn how to do it feels quite simple. Intarsia was like that for me, too. I learned to do it before I knew it was supposed to be hard. I wonder if we all have things like that: things that we expect to be hard, and that we perhaps even put off learning because we think they’re beyond us, that turn out to be simple once we do them.

For those who will ask, the class is Saturday the 14th, 11am-1pm Pacific time/12-2 Mountain/1-3 Central/2-4 Eastern, and I believe there are a few spots left. You can register through the Texas Fleece and Fiber Festival website. I’ll also be giving two lectures at the festival: “What Makes a Knitting Pattern Good for You,” and “Planning for Perfect Socks.” I’d love to see you there.