Slipping on the cliff in Optimistic Elevations

Getting Over The Hiccups

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Starting off easy the first three releases (Shadowlands/ Shadowlands Headband, Love Letters Cowl, and Vertical Hiker) all featured 2 and 3 stitch cables. But in upcoming releases, the cables will stretch the imagination as the motifs grow in width. Having a firm philosophy enables the expansion into 4, 5, and even more st cables. The possibilities are excitingly endless!

Puddles with Shadowlands Headband

Grafting Trick

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One of the things I hate to do is undo the provisional cast on in order to graft. So I spent some time trying out different methods to see just how required it is. For visible seams, it’s worth it, but for ones nobody will see, check out this trick instead! Reel on Instagram The Instagram reel was filmed with dear sweet Puddles and since I can’t recreate that, I decided to post the reel into a blog instead of remaking it for you tube.

collage Lindsay's Invisible Short Rows

Lindsay’s Invisible Short Rows

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One of the things I love most about brioche knitting is the reversible nature of the stitch. When it came to short rows, though, the techniques I could find all “displayed” the short rows in varying degrees of glaring announcements “there is a short row here!” I knew they had to be a way to make it completely invisible.

Puddles with Butterfly Silk close up (RS)

Carrying Yarn

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Our newest release, Butterfly Silk, features optional colourwork with some beautiful colour transitions! But that necessitates the question, how to carry the yarn? I know there are tons of methods out there – from the “no carrying, I cut and weave in ALL those extra ends” camp to the super sly “hide it in my knitting” camp and everything in between.

Autumn Come st close up

brssp3togpsso stitch demo

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The final video in the Autumn Come set is the brssp3togpsso.  This is the one that inspired that whole series as a tester said she found the others on you tube, but not this one.  The brssp3togpsso is a brioche purl decrease – brioche slip, slip, purl 3 brioche sts together, and pass the slipped brioche sts over the st just created.  Wow, that’s a mouthful!  It’s a good thing it’s easier to do than to say 😉.  The main question is when do you bring your yarn to front for the purling?  Both ways work, but my personal preference is to slip first and then bring the yarn to front.  Bringing the yarn to front prior to the slipping …

Autumn Come st close up

brssk3togpsso stitch demo

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After increasing last week, this week we examine the final set in this series for Autumn Come – 5 to 1 brioche st decreases.  First up, brssk3togpsso – brioche slip, slip, knit 3 brioche sts together, and pass slipped brioche sts over the st just created.  Since this is worked as a brk base, the st will already be in “brioche format” for the next pass on your CC rnd.