Hunters Stitch

I have always liked the lovely effect that brioche knitting creates. I discovered this design in an old Mon Tricot knitting dictionary.

It incorporates a few brioche stitches in a background of reverse stockinette. The brioche stitches pop to the surface giving a very textual design. In this example the brioche stitches are formed using K1B (below). The pattern is a two row repeat.

Cast on a multiple of 11 + 4. I added some edge stitches to prevent the stockinette rolling.

Row 1: *P4 (K1B, p1) 3 times, K1B* p4
Row 2: *K4, P1 (K1B, p1) 3 times* K4

Very effective and easy to do and memorise. I have not seen this in any design work so quite an interesting find. I will experiment some more and play round with changing the background.

Here are just a few rows of my knitting and you can see you get a nice slight scalloped edge when incorporating some rows of garter stitch before beginning the pattern. 

​The wrong side of the work is very acceptable and looks better than the photo suggests.