1. Knit something that is so easy to us that we don't even have to reference a pattern anymore; or
2. Knit something that requires so much concentration that we have to continually reference a pattern or a set of directions to finish the project.
Naturally, being sorted into the prestigious and ambitious Slythern house, I decided to go with the second option and decided that the guidelines meant that it was time to learn a new stitch pattern: the brioche stitch. For some reason, this week I had the brioche stitch on the brain. I had read about how it was supposed to be this fantastic stitch for scarves because it was reversible and you could do awesome things with two colors, but it was supposed to be super difficult. That was when I did decide to do the smart thing and start off learning the stitch with just one color.
The brioche stitch is nothing but slipping a stitch, doing a yarn over, and then knitting a stitch together with a yarn over. It sounds super easy and it is actually pretty easy, but I had to concentrate to make sure that I knitted the two stitches together and actually remembered to do the yarn over. I made a simple washcloth out of regular dishcloth cotton, expecting it to be normal and about as dense as garter stitch. It turned out to be super squishy which made it feel really thick. I love how it turned out and it feels so nice to wash your face with because it is so plush feeling!
I am glad that I decided to learn a new stitch and that this challenge inspired me to do so. I really want to make a blanket with this stitch now because it will be so delightfully squishy to cuddle.
As a side note, I finally got a background on my blog now. I know it probably doesn't look like much, but it is actually coming along quite nicely with my vision of having an Alice in Wonderland inspired knitting blog. More updates to the aesthetics to the blog will be coming this month, so there will be some more changes coming. Thank you for your patience!
-MegWesley
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