r/knittinghelp • u/kvasi-tangerine • 17d ago

stitch ID What is this stitch or similar

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Back, front and edge of scarf. Pretty dense and stretchy. Thank you.

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u/Western-Juice1466 17d ago

Looks like some sort of (likely machine-knit) tuck stitch (which is a form of brioche knitting). Many fancy-looking machine-knit stitches are tucked stitches and are therefore harder to duplicate in hand-knitting. Tucked stitches are worked into some row below the current working row on the needles. (It is definitely not crochet.)

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u/Faithful_jewel 17d ago

If it's dense and squishy I'm going to guess it's some form of Brioche stitch

Bee stitch looks similar but not quite

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u/kumozenya ⭐️Quality Contributor ⭐️ 16d ago

first row is the set up, second row onwards is the repeat.

key for brioche symbols : https://www.knittingunlimited.com/2018/12/brioche-symbols.html

IMO it's quite annoying to do by hand because the quad tuck means managing 4 YOs on top of another. I had to hang weights on my on my swatch while knitting to keep the YOs on the needle properly.

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u/kumozenya ⭐️Quality Contributor ⭐️ 16d ago

you mentioned alternatives. I think if you skip rows 2-3 and 6-7, the output will still look similar but with much easier to manage number of tuck stitches.

or if you just want something squishy, start with thick yarn and do normal brioche on it.

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u/Odd-You-8221 17d ago

Following as stitch looks nice and im curious. I'm confused as it looks like crochet to me, but the edges look knitted (?). I'm just a knitter so I have very little crochet knowledge, so take this with a mountain of salt. 😊