Knitting Fresh Brioche: Creating Two-Color Twists & Turns

By Nancy Marchant

Take your knits to the next level with this essential guide to the brioche stitch from a world-renowned expert.

In her groundbreaking knitting book, world-renowned brioche knitting expert Nancy Marchant works brioche - a versatile European stitch that creates a luxurious, reversible ribbed fabric - in two colors, forming graceful, undulating textures with increases and decreases. She explains everything from how to hold the yarn and cast on (offering multiple options) to creating the basic fabric and reading two-color charts. The stitch library presents 75 all-new brioche knitting patterns, and there are an additional 12 in luscious shawl and scarf projects.

Perfect for anyone looking for knitting books and patterns that teach new knitting techniques, Knitting Fresh Brioche is the ultimate guide to this trendy stitch. Whether it's your first time knitting brioche or you're in search of additional brioche knitting pattern books, this comprehensive volume has everything you need to make beautiful and colorful brioche knits.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936096773
• ISBN13: 9781936096770
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Sixth & Spring Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

More twists and turns than an English murder mystery.

Wool sweater books are a waste of time. First, you have to pay too much attention to detail. Second who is going to wear a wool sweater in Texas unless it is a pullover? Now this book is my cup of tea it is just stitches; after learning them you can do it while watching T.V. At least that is the theory. However, brioche looks a tad complex. Also, the end product will make for good presents (that is if one can afford to part with them.) The book is well laid out with good size visual charts; they are quite detailed and easy to follow. For those knitters who don't cotton to charts and like to see the actual instructions, they are also here in an easy-to-read font. The color pictures help you visualize what you're getting ready to knit and stay on target. The appendix has helpful variants such as: Two-Color Brioche in the round Converting a Two-Color Brioche flat chart to a one color Converting a Two-Color Brioche flat chart to a one-color Brioche in the round.