Teazle (plus giveaway)
Teazle is out today on ravelry, it’s 10% off with the code PRICKLY, and there’s yarn to give away later in this post!
So you knew it was going to happen…one day I was going to fall for brioche. And wow did I fall hard. This is my first brioche project, but I know for sure it won’t be the last (yes, yes there are more on the needles already).
Now we come to the potentially tricky bit. Because it is my first brioche project, I totally don’t feel comfortable claiming that I can teach you everything you need to know about brioche just yet. I want you coming into this with a little bit of basic background knowledge (sort of like how I expect you to know how to knit, purl, and yarn over for the rest of my patterns). For this one, you want to be able to work two color brioche in the round (the rest I’ll tell you how to do, but that I want you feeling confident with on your own). The good news is you can get to that point in like an hour of swatching and video watching (I love this one). Once you feel comfy with that, you’re golden!
You start with your basic ribbing (Translation: you do the easy bit early on while you get a feel for things). Then you work beautiful little seed pods (Translation: as soon as you’re just starting to get bored with the ribbing, you get to switch over to the fancy bits because really…those are super fun). You do as many sets of those as you like before switching back to ribbing (Translation: if you’re having fun, keep going…if you get a little scared, you only have to do them once and you can totally go back to the ribbing and have it look awesome). Then at the end, you work a very tidy crown (Translation: seriously, every brioche crown ever looks like magic, you owe it to yourself to do this at least once just because it’s so satisfying). You really are going to have fun with this!
And, just to make sure one of you has an awful lot of fun, I’ve got two skeins of the glorious Ontheround yarn I used for the orange hat to send off to one of you. If you think it should be you, leave a comment here telling me about something you were a little scared of but learned how to do anyway. It doesn’t have to be knitting related. Did you learn how to change out an electrical outlet? How to take public transit somewhere you don’t speak the language? How to make a really great soufflé? You folks are a talented lot and I want to hear what you’ve conquered!
And I totally can’t send yarn to all of you, but I can give everyone 10% off with the code PRICKLY. Just put Teazle in your cart, hit the coupon button, and type in PRICKLY. You’ll see the change right away (if that ever doesn’t work, double check your spelling…that solves about 99% of problems, if you’re still stumped, email me and we’ll sort it out!).
The code will work until the end of the day, eastern time, on Friday June 7. Comments left between now and the end of the day Friday, June 7 will be entered to win the yarn. You need to be an adult and to have a US mailing address. Some time next week, I’ll pick a winner and email them to ask for their mailing address (so please use a real email address…it won’t sign you up for any mailing lists or anything, but I will need it to contact the winner). I’ll need to hear back from whoever wins within 3 days of when I email them or I will pick another winner and contact them.
Oh my! This is incredibly beautiful!! I need to make one. My knitting fear was brioche, but like you I learned how and now love it!
Love this new pattern as well as so many of your other ones!
Rock climbing. I haven’t done it in over a decade due to some hand issues, but learning to do technical climbs back in the late eighties (I am old), was pretty terrifying. On a less risky note, learning to knit socks was a bit of a leap for me–my first pair is knit so tightly it could hold water! I think my shoulders tightened and rose closer to my ears with each round.
This is so delightful! i especially love the yellow and grey version. been wanting a hat in exactly those colors!!!
I already purchased the pattern! I love this! I was scared to try knitting….lol….but hunkered down with it 10 years ago and am completely addicted! I have also attempted baking a few times, but no addiction yet….but there is still hope, my Opa owned a bakery in Germany and I haven’t given up yet!
Learned to tile, but that never scared me until I ran up against a completely tiled shower. I was freaking out that it would leak and how to slope the floor, and all the other things I thought could go wrong by doing it the traditional way. Thanks to the friendly flooring guy at the local home improvement store, I discovered an easier way that cost a bit more money but not as much as hiring it done. Lots of people are willing to share their knowledge – that’s not just something knitters are good at. Thank goodness.
I learned how to jump off the Cape May Lewis Ferry in the “Escape the Cape” triathlon this past weekend. I was really scared but I did it. . . . I seriously want to learn brioche!
I was scared when we brought our first child home from the hospital. She was a month premature, and we had not prepared yet (she was born on the day my husband was supposed to take a final exam for his MBA, and we thought that would give us four weeks to get ready for the new baby. The silver lining was that his professor decided he didn’t need to make up the exam.)
She survived our inexperience and lack of preparation, and is now a lovely young lady – and a knitter!
i have been anxiously awaiting for the release of this pattern since i saw its unfolding on instagram! will purchase on next visit to ravelry which will be momentarily. i love the spiky! love the brioche!
Talking on the phone! I was so scared to talk on the phone up until 6was about 20 years old, then I got a job where almost all of it was on the phone. Now I can even calm and order pizza 🙂
I grew up in a town with a population of less than 2000 and first lived in a city when I went to college. Using public transportation, was a scary concept, and I didn’t have a car and spent weekends on campus. I finally broke down and confessed to an international student how I didn’t know to take the bus with an international student. She took pity on me and accompanied me for a trip to the downtown mall on the city bus. My second trip was solo, all the way across town to a cross-stitch shop I found in the classified section of a stitching magazine (This was both pre-knitting and pre-internet.)
I took a four hour class in Brioche and left feeling absolutely terrified. Twenty six double sided legal pages of instructions. Yikes. Really would like to learn Brioche so will follow your footsteps and hopefully produce something that is not too terrible.
Thanks for the giveaway.
When I went with my middle school students on a 3-day wilderness retreat, I was surprised to find I was afraid of falling on the high ropes course (~40 feet up). Of course it’s easy to act brave when groups of 20 kids are watching your every move and you want to encourage them to Do The Thing, but I was shaking in my boots! Not to mention it was FREEZING (14*F or so and we spent all day every day outside) so your hands are frigid and nonresponsive, even with gloves 😛 Watching the students conquer their fears at the same time I was secretly conquering mine was amazing.
The most frightening thing I learned to do was rappelling. I love the pattern, and thanks for the giveaway!
I learned how to brioche! I had tried two times previously… but for some reason it hadn’t stuck and I was feeling quite down about myself about it. I tried a third time and POW! Donnez leur donc de la brioche!
Driving. My parents declared me impossible. My husband taught me, he is patient, kind and inexorable. Which means he got stuck teaching our kids as well.
My Mom things Dan can work miracles.
Ok, one of the most terrifying things I’ve done was sky diving. I was so afraid going up in the plane and right up to the last second I thought I would say no. But then I jumped (and screamed), with a free fall that seemed like an eternity. Once the parachute opened, the peace and serenity, not to mention the view, was outstanding. When I landed, my first thought was let’s do that again!
This is beautiful! I can’t wait to see how your brioche explorations continue. Last week I made ceramic tile mosaic trays all by my self. The last time I did any form of tiling was in 1987 with my fiancé. It turned out great, but I was nervous!
I tried out an adult swim class. Wow, it was so humbling. I couldn’t get my breathing right, felt like I was drowning and couldn’t open my eyes. The teacher was so patient with me. But I was glad I tried!
I was brave enough to take a hardcore HIIT workout class and I didn’t even die. It was intimidating at first but in the end was fun. I am so addicted to your hat patterns. I can never wear them all so I decided to start making them to yarn bomb statues around my hometown this winter. That way someone who needs it, can take a hat and stay a little warmer this winter.
I conquered my panic–panic about car problems, health problems, and learned to breathe and problem solve instead of panic.
I was a bit scared of brioche but instead of jumping right into the hardest pattern like I did lace, I started by making a giant two-color brioche cowl that’s completely ribbing and got addicted in the worst sort of way. I’ve already made a brioche star pot holder and am 5 repeats of the chart into Nancy Marchand’s Willow scarf pattern. Despite the numerous other things in my queue I think brioche is going to supersede them all for a while
I was terrified, by myself, really thought I’d wind up refusing(& wanted to!!) but proceeded on with surgery to install an arterial stent next to my heart, just this past March. I’ma ‘blame’ it on my grandchildren! ❤😉
Love your patterns & still thrilled I got to Test one for you! 😁
Cheers to all the brave knitters who commented before me! I was scared to scuba dive, but learned how and had a great vacation many years ago. Night diving was completely terrifying, but that’s different. I was also scared to get divorced, but forged ahead and life has been so much better on the other side! Thanks for creating your beautiful patterns and sharing them with us.
For me brioche was always spelled F. A. I. L. U. R. E. This pattern motivates me to try again, and keep at it ’til I succeed.