Can Anyone Explain What I'm Trying to Say?

[evilawyer]

Yes, even I am confounded. I'm trying to find the name of a particular knitting stitch so I can look it up to relearn how to do it, but I can't quite describe it. It involves knitting into the stitch below the one that's on your needle. I remember using it on every other stitch on one row, then knitting or purling (I can't remember which) on the next row, with the two rows repeated.

Does this have a name? I am remembering how to do it incorrectly?

Comments

[nitoda]

It sounds like a fisherman's rib - see http://www.ehow.com/how_2126027_knit-fishermans-rib-pattern.html ?

[auntruth]

Does Brioche stitch sound right?

There's a whole group of stitches that involve knitting into the row below. In fact, recent book by Duvekot, called "Knit One Below" is all about many cool permutations)

[evilawyer]

That sounds like it. I'll try it when I get home. Thanks!

[evilawyer]

I think it's fisherman's rib as nitoda says above, but I'll check on Brioche stitch, too. Thanks for the info re: the book. I'll have to check it out. As I remember, the knitting into the row below was nerve wracking at first, but very fun once I got over my lack of trust that it wasn't all going to unravel on me.

[auntruth]

I bought the book after browsing it at library... she uses pretty simple variations on the stitches but does really lovely things with varigated yarns and with pairs of yarns. The Projects of that book on ravelry are a photo set I can really fall into

I got the hang doing of the Knit Below without too much angst, once I managed to loosen my working tension a little. But I've have had huge difficulty with any dropped stitches or frogging. I'm pretty good about seeing the structure of knit patterns, but there's something about these that really confuses me if I have to un-do or re-do a bit.

[evilawyer]

Whereas I am horrible as "seeing" the structure of a pattern. I do remember having to pay extra attention (no knitting while watching TV, etc) when I was working the piece because I simply could not pick up any dropped stitches --- and I got tired of ripping back after the third time.

[aquaeri]

Yeah, I'd say it's a brioche, of which fisherman's rib is probably the most "famous" brioche pattern.

[evilawyer]

It was the fisherman's rib from the pattern on ehow. The video I watched on YouTube that identified the stitch as "brioche" looked harder than the fisherman's rib (which is, indeed, what I'd done before). Maybe it was just the view angle. Thanks for the info!

[aquaeri]

Yeah, there's a whole bunch of different patterns possible based on "knit in the stitch below", and particularly once there's purl and purl in the stitch below, it gets tricky. Fisherman's rib is probably the easiest.

[aquaeri]

Oh, and I forgot to mention, there's other ways of getting the same final effect, by slipping stitches, and knitting stitches together and if that's what you saw, yeah, it seems a stupidly complicated way of doing the same thing :-).

[cme]

I actually liked the projects in Knitting Brioche better- I thought they were more structurally inventive. But Knit One Below's color sense was pretty good.

[auntruth]

I do not know that book... but I see now its website, which does look interesting: http://briochestitch.com/brioche/

[evilawyer]

That was it! Although, maybe, if you tend to use too much tension, it works out better using the more complicated way.