A friend pointed me to a question on Ravelry about identifying a pattern stitch, because one response to the question suggested that the pattern stitch was crocheted, rather than knitted.
Here is the link to the post in question, which includes a couple of responses I made. Here are pictures of the swatch I knitted, along with a picture of the original garment in question:
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| The original picture, from a gardening magazine |
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An enlarged picture of the fabric,
with apologies for the resolution |
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I knitted this swatch (starting at bottom, binding off at top)
to explore what the stitch might have been. |
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| Enlarged picture of the pattern stitch at top of swatch. |
Given the difference in resolution between the two pictures of the stitches, I find it easier to see how they are related by squinting a bit. I do believe they are basically the same stitch.
The stitch I used was a very simple type of brioche: over an even number of stitches, (knit 1, knit 1 in the stitch below) all the way across. This is a one-row repeat, so the same row is repeated each row; For this striping, change yarn every 2nd row.
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