Black Forest Brioche by Kieran Foley

Black Forest Brioche

Knitting
August 2020
both are used in this pattern
Light Fingering ?
30 stitches and 10 rows = 4 inches
in Brioche pattern
US 4 - 3.5 mm
800 - 1200 yards (732 - 1097 m)
customizable
English
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A dazzling brioche pattern with shifting feathery clusters of color and fern-like contrasts of density. Please note that the pattern assumes you are familiar with the brioche knitting technique!

Light color: Schoppel Wolle Zauberball Crazy, Tiefe Wasser colorway, approximately 58g/243m/266yds; dark color: Hedgehog Fibres Sock Yarn, Plump colorway, approximately 50g/200m/218yds
The swatch was knit on 3.5mm/US4 needles, with two and a half repeats of the chart; dimensions of swatch: 33in/84cm long by 20in/51cm wide

The collage image shows a project with five and a half repeats of the chart, approximately 66in/167cm long, requiring a bit more than one ball of each colorway. If you are running short of yarn you can start finishing up on any row of the chart. Allow two balls of each colorway for a larger project. Alternatively you can supplement one skein of Hedgehog and one Zauberball, by splicing in different yarns every now and then for extra variety in the colorwork. I used a plain dark color and a self-striping light color; using two Zauberball colorways will create extra visual interest as the various shifting tones and shades interact with each other.

This is a charted pattern with some notes on brioche techniques. For clarity and ease of use, the chart shows patterned rows only and does not use standardized Brioche symbols and notation. Stitches include double increases, left and right-leaning decreases, and a centered quadruple decrease. The quadruple decrease is shown very clearly in this video tutorial by Xandy Peters.

Errata for German version chart In Knit the Cat 13:
The small black triangles denoting left and right leaning decreases are all the same, by mistake. Up to row 17 of this chart, the decreases should be left leaning decreases, and for the rest of the chart they should be right leaning decreases.

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