Techniques, Tips, or Tricks - Fixing a Brioche mistake
I make mistakes a lot while knitting because I’m an impatient knitter. Fixing a stitch or two after having knitted up quite a bit can be daunting especially in brioche knitting. On one evening last week, I find myself with many ugly bar across the pretty brioche knit chains.
I knitted a brioche while watching Olympic game last week. I shouldn’t have picked up a brioche. That wasn’t a good idea. I missed the yarnover I’m supposed to do after slip stitch in brioche. Many times, in fact. So I made a ‘how-to-fix’ video. (This is first time to make any instruction video for me! I hope it’s bearable). When you accidentally drop a stitch and unfortunately it is unravelled many rows down. You can fix it exactly the same way.
How to fix a missed-yarnover in brioche
If you are impatient like me, scroll down to see the video clip at the end.
Find the stitch where a yarnover was not done. You can find gaps around the stitch.
Mark one stitch above the stitch with a stitch marker.
Unravel the row up to the stitch you marked.
Flip the bar in front of the stitch to the back of the stitch. And then take the stitch marker off.
Put a crochet hook through the stitch and two bars(rows) above the stitch to the back of the bars (IMPORTANT: do not touch the yarn over. If you include yarn over, there should be three bars behind the stitch.)
Hook the next bar (it will be quite looser than other bars) and pull it through all the way.
Do not forget the last yarn over on the needle at the end.
Happy Brioche, my fellow crafters!! Hope this helps. ❤️