Knitting Tutorial: Fixing mistakes in brioche knitting

I give an in-depth guide to identifying and fixing mistakes in two-colour brioche rib stitch (no increasing or decreasing).
Madeleine Windsor
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[@heiditasker9251]

I have relied on this video for a few years now. I don't do so much brioche. This is so helpful!

[@63mnb]

Thanks! This is the best video I have found for fixing mistakes in brioche!

[@maryellenlitzinger]

I've looked at several online brioche knitting classes. Your video is the only one that gives me sufficient background information to understand the how and WHY of what I'm doing. Thank you!!

[@lottem9144]

I am still a knitting beginner and tried my hand at he brioche stitch, and got myself ina. bot of trouble. I just want to thank you for saving my knitting! your video is a miracle! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

[@rexannb3710]

This is SO VERY HELPFUL!! Thanks so much for the concise and detailed visuals as well as the verbal explanation. I’m new to brioche, being able to correct mistakes will make the difference between doing projects with brioche or running away from them! 👏🏼👏🏼

[@sarahgoff3963]

I can’t thank you enough for this video!!! Thank you for pointing out the common mistake (when fixing a mistake!) of only going under one background strand. That’s what I was doing and i was ready to give up. But watching this clicked for me and now I’m working on repairing instead of nightmarishly frogging. I’ve dropped two stitches but now that I’ve seen this video and understand the construction, I think I’ll be able to do it. Thank you!!

[@brendacornell7481]

I made a couple mistakes on two colour Fisherman’s rib and your video has helped me immensely! Thank you!

[@aenea2009]

You saved my mental health! Thank you!

[@nicki1739]

Your explanation was so clear- you gave me the confidence to unravel down to a weird twisted stitch I was just going to lave because I was too afraid to go fix it. Thanks for helping me jump in and take care of it. It looks so much better! ♥️

[@karenlynnwiebusch4597]

Excellent! I have taught a few classes in two color brioche and this is the best video on fixing a mistake that I have seen. Thank you!

[@kolibrisway]

I had three columns of stitches slipped and this was the only tutorial that explained the structure of the stitches well enough that I was able to fix it. Lifesaver.

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you very much for your comment - I'm really so glad it helped you out. I know its a bit "long" for some... but I wanted there to be the info for those who wanted it :-) Happy Knitting!

[@jillianmoore7912]

I agree 100 percent. I now feel comfortable to fix mistakes and also just understand the structure of the moves I'm making.

[@lesliecollins3580]

Fantastic video! thank you. I used it to fix a one color brioche but you were so clear about the foreground and background stitches that I was able to identify them. I was nervous about going down five rows but it worked out perfectly.

[@kateseppala2709]

Thank you!!!!! For several days, I've been trying to fix dropped stitches in two parallel columns, surrounded by increases and decreases. I watched for video and fixed everything within a few minutes! I am now excited and hopeful about this project again :)

[@sdschantz]

Excellent! You speak my brioche language. For the first time I feel confident fixing mistakes in brioche. Thank you!

[@sandraponte3121]

I am currently knitting a brioche project for the first time and your video was very helpful for correcting some errors quite a few rows back in my work. I really appreciate your clear and concise instructions. Thank you so much!!

[@eka22180]

Life saver. I was worried that this wouldn't help me as I'm knitting not only in one colour but also in brushed alpaca silk held double, but your explanation and demo were so clear I've managed to fix a mistake I made 30 rows back and was trying to convince myself was just a tension issue. Hours of work and the horror of frogging brushed alpaca saved. Thank you so much!

[@nicolejosan6364]

Thank you so much for the totally unraveled explanation. I had some stupid error going on which required me to really undo all the stitches totally. Now I have it down: Leave the shawl, go under the next 2, grab the third.

[@tanyamerchant6799]

Brilliant! Thanks for explaining so well and so clearly. I now understand the structure of Brioche and all my mistakes are fixed. Thank you!!

[@xtinamorelos]

Wow! Your video saved my butt while working shawlography brioche section. Thank you!

[@zoedoodle9824]

This was excellent! I'm working on my first brioche project. After watching this I can now see what is what. I've been using frequent lifelines and frogging back pairs of stitches to reknit. This is so helpful! Thank you.

[@MichelleGarcia-or5wo]

thank you, thank you, thank you!! you have NO idea how much this has helped me! i am almost looking forward to my next mistake, because i know it going to happen!

[@KingfisherKnits]

I'm so glad Michelle! And I know what you mean ;-D - happy knitting/brioching!

[@TrudySchwartzBurrill]

Briliant! g Great job explaing good camera and lighting too boot. Thanks so much.

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you - filmed with my iPhone - held in a very homemade "stand" fashioned from an ice cream tub, and lit with table lamp! But it worked well for me - I have moved recently, but hope to get back to making some more tutorials soon! I appreciate the encouragement.

[@TheMJsson]

Thank god for this !! A friend told me that it’s possible to fix brioche errors 🤗 in old days it was told it was impossible to fix... so I’m so released. My error is fixed 👍❤️

[@latitude1904]

Nice video! I had to tink back 20 separate rows to "fix" little glitches in my brioche hat. Now, it looks marvelous. I used a small knitting needle to pull the stitch up from behind the other, and did not stretch them. Then, when it was time to crochet the ladder, each was sticking up just perfectly. Despite that I was using dark navy yarn in a one-color brioche pattern, it was quite easy so long as I was careful to cause very little disturbance. Done and DONE

[@SherryLondon]

Totally brilliant! Thank you so much. I dropped three adjoining stitches and thanks to this video, I was able to repair them one at a time and get it right!

[@mostlyknitting]

This was such a good tutorial. I am so glad I watched this before attempting to fix my mistake. Understanding the architecture of how the stitches are created is vital to fixing mistakes with confidence. Bravo!

[@marilynmoore9618]

Thank you so much for this video. Now I look forward to finding mistakes! So much better than messing around with lifelines and knitting in fear lol. Liberating!

[@leisa1495]

Thank you for your patient detailed instructions! I had the mistake with the hole behind it and thanks to you I was able to fix it instead of starting over!

[@tiana5395]

This was ABSOLUTELY useful! Thank you for posting how to do surgery on BRK and including a look and understanding of the structure

[@jillianmoore7912]

The two robots who did not find this helpful have to be non-native English speakers or terrible listeners. Thanks so much for this video. You saved me from ripping out my project. I literally learned two-color brioche yesterday, made three terribly obvious mistakes, found your video today and feel proud as hell that I was able to save my project.

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you very much for your comment - I am aware there is no pleasing everyone, but all that matters to me is that this helps those who need it. Knowing how to fix one's mistakes is the key to owning one's knitting in my opinion, so I am very glad that this helped you out! Good luck going forward x

[@dianevanderwerff1178]

EXCELLENT video - great detail - really helped me understand the structure and how to "read" the knitting! Thank you so much!

[@dorykoszewski3162]

Thank you! This has given me the courage to try brioche. I needed to know how it's put together so I can fix it if I make a mistake, which I'm sure I will. Thanks again.

[@mariecouture7591]

Extremely well explained. I think I heard somewhere in your video that you will talk about a drop stitch.

[@anniewright9868]

Your explanation was perfect! Thank you so much, now I can fix my brioche with complete confidence 😊

[@katyjudd1061]

So incredibly helpful, thank you. You’re an excellent teacher - really clear explanations. I will now dare to correct the common error I made, great!

[@suetrask784]

Thank you for the thorough explanation, I may attempt to fix where I purled whenI should have knitter. : )

[@catchat105]

Thank you so much for making this easy to understand! I somehow ended up with a row where it seemed like I was purling my main color where I was supposed to be knitting (I don't quite know what I did as I was mindlessly brioching while watching TV)- it seems like the common way to fix really any mistake in brioche knitting is to rip back that stitch and to pick up two at a time like you had demonstrated. I have another mistake from early on in my project where the contrasting color crosses in front of a main knit column but it's from the very beginning and I'm feeling less inclined to rip that whole column out. However, if I do end up fixing it, I'll know what to do! It almost seems so easy to fix brioche knitting that I can't believe how panicked I was at first!

[@rubygray7749]

You're soooo brave! What excellent tutorials you make. Impressed new subscriber here!

[@sandrathebiasedge7702]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. It is so well explained. Now i know how to fix mistakes without having to rip the whole project. 😅😂

[@KingfisherKnits]

So glad you find it useful! Thank you x

[@junepotere5481]

Thank you so very much! I may finally be able to fix my two color brioche mistakes now!! I can only hope!

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you so much - I have my fingers crossed for you!

[@shaunastitches]

Thank you! Such a good and useful tutorial. I appreciated the explanation you gave and how in depth you went. I feel like my next go at fixing any mistakes will be much easier following your guide here. Also, your project and yarn choices are beautiful!

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thanks a lot Shauna - I cannot claim to have put these yarns together -they are both from my collaborator TreLiz Yarns, and she put them together for this design I am doing. DK brioche loveliness - slated for release in the New Year :-)

[@hollyhe8854]

Thank you so much for this. This is so helpful!

[@margaretd467]

Very clear explanation. Thank you!

[@victoriad8736]

You saved me!!! Thank you so much -- I was about to tear back all my work ;__;

[@marieclark802]

Excellent tutorial! And just in time!

[@mom2bsa]

Thank you! Your video as very helpful. I’m now gong to attempt fixing two dropped stitches before I decide to rip it out.

[@erinmanningsantiago8615]

Thank you for this video. Very helpful!

[@genathompson5625]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! !! It has saved me many times!!!

[@nancysteiner8814]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@lesleynemser1544]

This is excellent. Thank you so much

[@katyplansandpens790]

This is a great video - very helpful. I would love to know whose speckled yarn you used in this demo - so fun!

[@christinahardgrove1938]

Thank you so very much! It makes sense now!

[@user-eq9nh9sl8k]

Ugh! Thanks for this video. My first attempt at brioche did multi color and only one color. Made this same mistake but did not fix. If I try now it would be confusing which bar to go under.

[@juliep1276]

Excellent tutorial! After viewing, I was able to mend four flaws. Thank you so much! Would you provide a similar one for mending edge stitches in addition to the middle stitches?

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you - I'm so glad it was helpful for you. I will freely admit that fixing edge stitches is something I hate, and I do not think I have ever attempted (or needed) to do it when working brioche. I think that would be very hard to save... It does intrigue me though - I will study the matter and if I think I can produce a useful video I will do so :-) (There is the issue that different patterns will use different types of selvedge stitches, for two colour brioche I use an edge stitch in st st in the main colour, while some patterns will have the edge stitches also in brioche)

[@ditto303]

That was helpful, thank you!

[@EmsCraftnChat]

That was a fab tutorial, so helpful. Thanks so much! Em x

[@KingfisherKnits]

Great to hear! Thanks for commenting x

[@matildetessari9425]

Thank you so much for this tutorial !!! Do you have any video teaching how to fix mistakes in increases and decreases brioche stitch?

[@KingfisherKnits]

Matilde Tessari thank you. I’m glad it helped. I really wish I did. Life hasn’t given me the time to make any more videos for a while. I hope I’ll manage in the end! 😊

[@saxbabe]

Lovely video, the issues made sense, and the fixes made sense, but maybe I just missed it, but did you indicate which mistake from the beginning you were fixing with each fix?

[@Ellinesscrafts]

This is a very helpful video. Thank you so much. Lorraine ;-)

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you - I'm very glad it helped you out!

[@lisakaycreates3345]

This video is invaluable! Love, love, love 💖 it!

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you so much! Very happy to be able to help!

[@the_dapper_scrapper]

Super useful. Thanks.

[@marysevb]

Thank you so much, just saved myself from undoing many rows

[@michaelakruger6912]

This video helps me so much, thank you! 😊👍🏻

[@shu0017]

I'd also like to thank you for this video. It helped tremendously :)

[@KingfisherKnits]

Lovely to hear! Thank you x

[@deborahwebb4367]

Thanks much, this is helpful, and I have watched it over and over. That being said, it would be so much easier to see had you used two solid colors!

[@KingfisherKnits]

Hi Deborah - I am glad you find it helpful. I'm afraid that this is the project I had on my needles at the time, maybe one day I will have time to replicate it with different yarns.

[@ChaCha-np2he]

Well done! - you saved me!!!!😄😄😄😄👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@KingfisherKnits]

Very happy this could help!

[@FaerieFenergles]

That was brilliant, thank you!!!

[@cristinataylor5032]

Thank you👌🏽God Bless

[@elizabethsulzby4047]

This video is really good in conception but I find it hard to follow on the "just let them stay" mistakes with this variagated yarn. If you do another, please use solid color and high contrast yarns. And go more into detail of those in-between mistakes. I am comfortable just leaving them (if not too many) but is there a way to fix them--and/or to cover them up? Thank you so much for this great start.

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you for your feedback - I do sympathise. When I needed to make this video this was the project on my needles. What I would say though is that the way to fix the "just let them stay" mistakes is the same process I show for the others. You locate the column of stitches and drop the column down (from the knit side of that column) until you are a stitch below the mistake, meaning you have removed the mistake, and then you work back up the column making the stitches as I showed. I have so hoped to have time to make more tutorials, as I really like doing it. But life just hasn't given me the time in a while. Hopefully I will manage soon. x

[@elizabethsulzby4047]

You have a really good and thoughtful manner. I just FROGGED a 2 color start because the contrast was wrong. Reversed the two yarns and it works just right. And I know about time to video and edit. I wish more of the videos people make on 2 color brioche would have transcripts as well. Not this one. This one is fine with just the video and your explanations. @@KingfisherKnits

[@theknittingcraft3151]

So beautiful 👌👌👌👌👌 now you have a new subscriber

[@vindeljay]

Thank you thank you thank you, now I might get 1 hat finished.

[@emilyhall3833]

Thank you so much for this! If you have any tips for the "nightmare" of fixing adjacent columns, I would be SO grateful to hear them. I'm in a thicket of crossed strands . . .

[@KingfisherKnits]

Eek - I’ve only ever fixed 2-3 adjacent columns and I remember the result wasn’t completely perfect. My tip would be to start from a dropped column next to an intact one and always work from the side where you are repairing a “knit” column. Eg. You’ve dropped 3 columns which from one side would be knit-purl-Knit columns. Try to fix the first knit column, then flip the work to fix the middle column (what was the purl column viewed from the other side). Then flip again to fix the final knit column. I think that’s the best I can offer - sorry! Hope it helps.

[@emilyhall3833]

@@KingfisherKnits thank you so much for responding! In fact what I did was watch your excellent video a second time and then go back and do what you describe: repaired the first column next to a stable column, and then repaired the second (on the other side of the second column was an increase row--very messy). I understand how things work SO much better now--thank you thank you.

[@libbywalsh358]

Great tutorial thanks.

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you!

[@hooksbookspodcast]

SUPER helpful!!!!! Thank you!!!!

[@KingfisherKnits]

I'm glad it helps!

[@ronagoldberg1668]

Great explanation, easy to follow except for one minor criticism. The foreground color might of been a better choice in a light solid. But thank you for the instruction of the construction. I understand how to create brioche stitches but now I understand what I’m looking at in the column and how to repair it if need Be

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you - I understand that these colours don't always give the ideal contrast, but this is what was on my needles at the time, and to be otherwise I probably wouldn't have gotten around to making the tutorial. :-)

[@redredwine1277]

Thanks for sharing 🎄

[@gabriellagarcia382]

Your yarn is awesome where can i get it?

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thanks. It really is! It’s from Tres Liz. Her merino dk base (Hera I think she calls it). The colours are Charlotte (multi) and Celine (dark blue) as far as my memory serves. Here I was actually knitting on a pattern I designed in collaboration with her. Called Midnight Sherbet / so you can click on the link to my Ravelry designs under the video to find that and the yarn details are all there 😊.

[@lisapress4755]

This an excellent tutorial. I also am in love with your two yarns? What are they?

[@KingfisherKnits]

Thank you Lisa - I'm so glad you like it. The yarn is totally amazing I know ;-). Both yarns are from TreLiz Yarns. They are on her Hera DK weight base (100% superwash merino) in the Charlotte (multicoloured) and Celine (dark denium blue).

[@Smartieshorts]

If you BRK when you should have BRP'd, you're gonna have a bad time 😂

[@hazeldonner1855]

You show the mistakes and then demonstrate how to drop down a stitch where there is no mistakes. This seems an odd thing to do !!! The error I would like to see fixed, is where a column of V stitches move over to the next column.