Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Have you ever wondered WHY a designer knit a garment from the bottom up? Ever wondered if you could reverse it to be top-down?
In today's episode, we're covering the WHYs and the HOWs of garment construction and reverse engineering!
*Valentine's Day Knitting Intensive (more about the course):* unapologeticknitter.com/blog/2025/1/14/ki2025-course-details
*Valentine's Day Knitting Intensive (registration):* unapologeticknitter.com/courses/valentines-day-knitting-intensive-2025
*LINKS*
Episode 60 - Three Interchangeable Collars: youtu.be/XWS51-5O44A?si=IckQjv_tdyl7Am2u
Oceansider Sweater: ravelry.com/patterns/library/oceansider
#28 Horizontal Cable Sweater: ravelry.com/patterns/library/28-horizontal-cable-sweater
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Have you ever wondered WHY a designer knit a garment from the bottom up? Ever wondered if you could reverse it to be top-down?
In today's episode, we're covering the WHYs and the HOWs of garment construction and reverse engineering!
*Valentine's Day Knitting Intensive (more about the course):* unapologeticknitter.com/blog/2025/1/14/ki2025-course-details
*Valentine's Day Knitting Intensive (registration):* unapologeticknitter.com/courses/valentines-day-knitting-intensive-2025
*LINKS*
Episode 60 - Three Interchangeable Collars: youtu.be/XWS51-5O44A?si=IckQjv_tdyl7Am2u
Oceansider Sweater: ravelry.com/patterns/library/oceansider
#28 Horizontal Cable Sweater: ravelry.com/patterns/library/28-horizontal-cable-sweater
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![How To: Place a Lifeline Through a Sl1, K2tog, Psso Decrease
Take your lifeline skills one step further and learn how to place it through the common 2-stitch decrease sk2p or sl1, k2tog, psso.
*To learn more about placing lifelines, check out my full tutorial here:* https://youtu.be/hU1AQ06Ijv0?si=xX67c8JiEkpnZ26Y
*If you want to knit a swatch and test the method with me:*
Using a DK weight yarn and 2 - US 6 (4 mm) DPNs, cast on 23 sts using the long tail cast on method. Do not join to work in the round.
Knit 3 rows (garter edging).
Row 1 (RS): Knit.
Row 2 (WS): K3, p17, k3.
Row 3: Knit.
Row 4: K3, p17, k3.
Row 5: K6, sl1, k2tog, psso, k5, sl1, k2tog, psso, k6. [19 sts rem]
Row 6: K3, p13, k3.
Row 7: Knit.
Row 8: K3, p13, k3.
Place the lifeline on Row 5 through the decrease stitches and rip back to make sure you picked up all of the stitches in the correct orientation!
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![How To: slip stitches wyib or wyif
Learn how to slip stitches to create columns of elongated stitches or create an i-cord edge as you work! This video covers slipping stitches on the RS, the WS and at the edges.
0:50 - sl1 wyib
2:39 - sl1 wyif
3:41 - sl3 wyif
Abbreviations:
- sl: slip a stitch purlwise
- wyib: with yarn in back
- wyif: with yarn in front
If you want to follow along for practice I have used a worsted weight yarn and a US 8 (5mm), 24” / 60 cm circular needle. I have cast on 36 stitches.
Rows 1-4: Knit to last 3 sts, sl3 wyif.
Row 5 (RS): K3, p8, sl1 wyib, p12, k1, p8, sl3 wyif.
Row 5 (WS): K11, sl1 wyif, k12, p1, k8, sl3 wyif.
Rep [Rows 5 and 6] to practice all 3 skills.
If you’d like to put your sl1 wyif skills to good use, you can knit up my pattern, Athenaeum: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/athenaeum
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![How To: 1-Color Brioche in the Round (updated)
Learn the steps necessary to start a 1-color brioche project, worked in the round.
This video is a replacement/supplement to the video originally created 3 years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbrSPQC0EM) when I was a newbie to creating video tutorials. I hope you find the speed and explanations in this new video useful!
Abbreviations:
- brk: brioche knit (knit the st together with its wrap)
- brp: brioche purl (purl the st together with its wrap)
- sl1yo: slip 1, yarnover (with the working yarn in front, slip the st purlwise, creating a wrap as you move the working yarn into position to brk or brp the next st)
If you want to follow along I have used a worsted weight yarn and a US 8 (5mm), 16” / 40 cm circular needle. I have cast on 80 sts (roughly the quantity needed for an adult-sized slouch hat) and joined in the round, placing a marker to indicate the beginning of the round.
Setup Rnd 1a: *K1, sl1yo; rep from * to end of rnd (note that the last st worked will be a sl1yo).
Setup Rnd 1b: *Sl1yo; brp1; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 2a: *Brk1, sl1yo; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rnd 2b: *Sl1yo, brp1; rep from * to end of rnd.
Rep [Rnds 2a and 2b].
If you’d like to make a 1-color brioche hat I have a free pattern available on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/b-to-the-three
If you want to step up your brioche game, you can shape my other Brioche Knitting patterns in my Ravelry store: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/meaghan-schmaltz
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