Plain patent knitting, or brioche pattern (fig. [380]).—This easy and extremely elastic stitch is used for all sorts of articles of clothing, and is worked in two rows.
Fig. 380. Plain patent knitting, or brioche pattern.
Cast on a number of stitches that divides by 3, with 4 extra for the edge.
1st row—slip 1, knit 1, * over, put the needle into the next stitch, as if to purl it, slip the stitch from the left needle to the right, knit 1, repeat from *, and finish with 2 plain.
2nd row—begin with 1 chain, knit 1, knit the slipped stitch and the over together, over, slip the single stitch that remains, from the left needle to the right. When the knitting is round, you purl and knit the intake alternately.
Double patent knitting (fig. [381]).—Begin on the wrong side.
Fig. 381. Double patent knitting.
1st row—like the 1st row of fig. [380].