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How to Increase and Decrease in Brioche Knitting

January 4, 2017 3 Comments

Learn how to increase and decrease stitches in brioche knitting with this easy video tutorial featuring Heidi Gustad from the Hands Occupied blog.

Earlier this week, we learned how to knit two color brioche rib flat, so today we’re going to tackle increasing and decreasing. You can use increases and decreases in brioche knitting, of course, to make things bigger or smaller, you can shape a flat piece like a shawl or scarf, or you can make pretty lines and shapes like what’s pictured above. If you’re looking for a project to try these brioche techniques with, they’re all featured in the Exquisite Mystery pattern, which I helped design, and you can get help from other knitters doing brioche by hopping on board the mystery knit along that just got started a few days ago! Learn all about the Exquisite Mystery Knit Along here, and get the Exquisite Mystery pattern here.

how to knit a brkyobrk increase

Once you understand brioche basics, this increase is so straightforward to master! I can’t believe I used to be afraid of increases in brioche. As I mention in the tutorial video, it’s really not that much more complicated than a kfb, and each brkyobrk increases your stitch count by 2 stitches. I’m going to have to design with brioche more in the future – I’m completely hooked!

Learn how to increase and decrease stitches in brioche knitting with this easy video tutorial featuring Heidi Gustad from the Hands Occupied blog.

How to knit a bsk2p decrease

The bsk2p brioche decrease pairs nicely with the brkyobrk increase because it reduces the row’s stitch count by two (and the brkyobrk was an addition of 2 stitches). If you look at the swatch in this post, you’ll notice that the Y shape created by a brkyobrk increase is paired with a bsk2p decrease for a nice parallel/mirrored look.

Learn how to increase and decrease stitches in brioche knitting with this easy video tutorial featuring Heidi Gustad from the Hands Occupied blog.

Yarn support for the Exquisite Mystery design was provided by Dream in Color yarn. To learn more about the Exquisite Mystery Knit Along, check out this overview post, the Exquisite Mystery KAL Ravelry Thread, and order the pattern here.

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Heidi Gustad is a craft book author & content creator in love with primary colors & vintage vibes. She specializes in knitting, crochet, latch hook and macramé, and her first book, Latch Hook: 12 Projects for the Modern Maker, is out now!

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  1. Margaret-Rose Stringer

    November 28, 2017 at 3:37 am

    I have NO IDEA what to do in the row following a 4-stitch decrease – how to do the yos to get back to the original number of stitches. I can’t find any videos to tell me. [sob !]

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  2. Stefanie Chase

    September 2, 2019 at 9:23 am

    I need help on a brkyo8brk

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    • Heidi

      September 3, 2019 at 1:26 pm

      What sort of help are you looking for?

      Reply

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In knitting, there are a few common knitting styles. Most often you’re going to encounter continental style and English (throwing) style on your knitting journey. I recently had an old video teaching continental style get a lot of views. Based on the comments, it was clear the people wanted to also see a throwing tutorial, so here you go! 🧶
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I read recently that tiktok and Instagram are being used as search engines more and more. 🤔 I thought since I’m going to all the work of making tutorials on YouTube, I should experiment with making a quick version of them for other platforms. There are obvious teaching limitations to vertical video, short-form content like this, but I think I covered the gist of this cast on in a minute. The YouTube version also covers how to unzip this cast on because there was time for it 👍🏻 L1nk is in my profile. 
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