Knitting Fresh Brioche: Creating Two-Color Twists & Turns

by Nancy Marchant

Overview

Take your knits to the next level with this essential guide to the brioche stitch from a world-renowned expert.

In her groundbreaking knitting book, world-renowned brioche knitting expert Nancy Marchant works brioche – a versatile European stitch that creates a luxurious, reversible ribbed fabric – in two colors, forming graceful, undulating textures with increases and decreases. She explains everything from how to hold the yarn and cast on (offering multiple options) to creating the basic fabric and reading two-color charts. The stitch library presents 75 all-new brioche knitting patterns, and there are an additional 12 in luscious shawl and scarf projects.

Perfect for anyone looking for knitting books and patterns that teach new knitting techniques, Knitting Fresh Brioche is the ultimate guide to this trendy stitch. Whether it’s your first time knitting brioche or you’re in search of additional brioche knitting pattern books, this comprehensive volume has everything you need to make beautiful and colorful brioche knits.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936096770
Publisher:	Sixth & Spring Books
Publication date:	12/02/2014
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	289,322
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Born in Indiana, Nancy Marchant first encountered brioche when she moved to the Netherlands in 1976. She has written articles about and designed knitwear featuring brioche stitch for Vogue Knitting and many other knitting magazines, and is also the author of the bestselling Knitting Brioche (North Light). She maintains a website at briocheknitting.com and teaches the technique at consumer and trade shows across the US as well as in an online class on craftsy.com called “Explorations in Brioche Knitting.” Nancy lives in Amsterdam.

Editorial Reviews

"Throughout the book, Marchant does a wonderful job of breaking two-color brioche into its component parts, reducing its complexity and making it accessible. . . . Marchant is widely recognized as the expert on brioche stitch, and her continued explorations of such knitting will appeal to experienced knitters looking for the next big trend." —Library Journal

From the Publisher

03/01/2015
Marchant's first book, Knitting Brioche, introduced knitters to brioche stitch, which forms a reversible, heavily textured fabric suitable for a variety of garments and accessories. In this follow-up, the author shifts her focus to two-color brioche stitch, expanding on the possibilities of this versatile technique. Instructions for knitting the stitch, including increases, decreases, and flexible cast-offs and bind-offs are provided. Visual learners will appreciate the step-by-step photographs that accompany the text. The bulk of the book is a stitch dictionary of two-color brioche patterns of varying complexity, including both written and charted instructions. The final section is a series of 12 shawl and scarf patterns knit in eye-catching luxury yarns, further demonstrating the possibilities of brioche stitch. Throughout the book, Marchant does a wonderful job of breaking two-color brioche into its component parts, reducing its complexity and making it accessible. VERDICT Marchant is widely recognized as the expert on brioche stitch, and her continued explorations of such knitting will appeal to experienced knitters looking for the next big trend.

Library Journal