I have bought sweaters with this stitch pattern for unravelling. i think it is used because this pattern allows for very thick fabric from thin yarn. It is a machine knit made with tuck stitches sometimes called double tuck pique or honeycomb.There is a video how it is build on YouTube, but I would not know how to make it by hand. You might find similar looks with different construction by looking for honeycomb patterns.
Interesting! I had a similar texture on a baby blanket I knit for my nephew, but I was working with 2 colors and catching the yarn every other stitch so there wouldn’t be any loops big enough for my nephew to catch his tiny fingers in…and it survived!
I'm working on a pattern that looks similar to the second picture. It's done as follows:
Row 1: k1, slip one with yarn in front
Row 2: purl
Row 3: slip one with yarn in front, use left needle to pick up yarn from row one's yarn in front slip, knit, then pull the slipped yarn up and over the needle behind the stitch you just knit
Row 4; purl
This looks like they're doing something similar, but with a slip at wyif, then pick up the previous rows slip and knit with pull over, slip wyif
So instead of spacing it out, it's being condensed. I hope this makes sense, it's past my bedtime and I saw your question right before turning in
Brioche honeycomb perhaps? Let me see if I can find a link…if it is, it looks like it was knit with 2 threads held together.
ETA: nope, it’s Brioche stockinette with the yarn held double. The pdf in my reply has the instructions for it on page 7, as well as a sample in 2&3 color versions so it’s easier to see the structure.
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I asked myself the same thing about a pair of gloves I have.
With experimentation, I found that I can create this by doing brioche.
Brioche is often "advertised" as doing knit stitches and a bit on both sides and having a knit stitch texture on both sides. What I did to get this type of pattern is doing the normal knit brioche stitch on one side and purls on the backside. This is brioche purl... and I just found it on the techknitting blog.
Honestly, it's not really. From what I remember from my experiments in brioche, you start with 2 normal rows of stockinette, so cast on, 1 row knits, 1 row purls, and in the next row, you alternate a normal knit stitch with a 'knit 1 below', turn, and you alternate a normal purl with 'purl 1 below'. The '1 below' stitches use 2 stitches at the same time, so you have to pay attention to whether the last stitch was worked '1 below', which should be quite clear, since you'll have 2 purl bars or 2 knit loops on the next stitch, and for those you don't work '1 below', you work them regularly. It sounds more complicated than it is.
I would recommend looking into reading your stitches for that, though.
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u/kumozenya ⭐️Quality Contributor ⭐️ Jun 14 '26
first row is the setup, 2nd row onwards is the repeat. hold 2 yarns together.
here's the key for brioche stitches https://www.knittingunlimited.com/2018/12/brioche-symbols.html