I had quite the assortment of brioche patterns in my queue from all the way back in October 2013, and now I’m finally making one of them!

It had been a while since I’d worked brioche, so it took me a couple of false starts before I fully got going. Also, I first cast on with 6s but was ending up with a tighter less squishy fabric than I wanted. Once I switched to 7s and double-checked some different brioche instructions (I personally find “yf, sl pwise, yo” much more intuitive than when the entire yo is described as happening prior to the slip) I was on my way!

I found this pattern very, very addictive—both short rows and brioche are hard to put down for me, so the combination was irresistible!

I cast on the first 6 sts long-tail in patt; cable cast on for the further 34 (I thought about doing these provisionally but decided I didn’t want to mess with the figuring that would require). Bound off everything in patt (working brks as applicable), trying not to pull too tight.

Worked 14 wedges because that seemed to be the right size (which is good because I’m not sure I had enough yarn for a 15th). It stretches enough that after wearing it for a bit, I’m certain 15 would have been too much and I think 13 might have been sufficient.

Seamed just a tad past the shaped portion—like 1 or 2 brioche ridges further. I turned it inside out for the first little bit of seaming (stitching together the slipped edge that was folded in half), then turned right-side-out and stitched first one side and then another, with each stitch going from the right side to the wrong side and then pulled snug. The brioche ridges did end up a bit offset from this method.

I think if I make this again, I’ll look into casting on provisionally and grafting—mrsiggy’s project links to this Interweave tutorial on grafting brioche.