Hello everyone (my first post!)
I was wondering if anybody would be able to help me figure out how I’d going about knitting the stitch pictured?
My friend messeged me asking to help with her with a project and asked if I’d be able to knit a swatch (and eventually a garment) for her. I’m ok at hand-knitting, but prefer crotchet and am better at using my domestic machine.
Frpm what I can see it looks like chunky chenille/velvet yarn mixed with a black cotton or wool. It looks like it could have even been made with a chunky knitting machine (which I don’t have), but I’d rather see if I can can hand-knit it!
At first I thought it was a standard knit-one-row and purl the next (sorry my knit language isn’t great), with two stitches of chenille followed by one stitch of black, and then afterwards I’d knit two rows of just the black. However, this has turned out pretty flat, and the chenille doesn’t stick out the way it does in the photo she sent below 
Any advice or info would be so greatly appreciated - I guess the moral of the story is don’t agree to something you know nothing about haha!
Heres a photo of my attempt, it’s not bad but certainly not what she’s after (I also added a closer pic of the stitch):
Welcome to KH. I like what you’ve done. I wonder if using pom pom yarn would give you the result you’re looking for. I was just watching a video on knitting with the stuff because it’s been discussed here and I happened to think about it. There are a lot of the videos on youtube so I thought it would be best to suggest you look at some and let you find the ones you want. Just for future reference because what you wrote was quite clear - alternating knit rows and purl rows is stockinette.
ETA I found a sample for you. http://billiescraftroom.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/700p001.jpg
It’s from this search. https://www.google.com/search?q=pom+pom+yarn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=3lPpU8fWH8-hogSzkIDYDw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1430&bih=790#imgdii=_
Hi guys thanks so much for such quick replies!
Pom pom yarn was actually the first think i tried, but for some reason it didn’t really work out. the pom poms were so fluffy that there wasn’t really any definition to the stitch.
XtopherCB, I wish it was a crochet stitch - I’d personally find it so much easier.
It thought perhaps it might be some sort of rib? I’ve knocked up a really scrappy diagram to try and explain haha, instead of a stockinette formation it looks as though it might be a 1X1 rib or something similar? I had a go at trying to knit it but made a bit of a mess…
Could it even be machine knitting with intarsia???
it looks more like a kind of ribbing to me, too. I don’t think it’s this but two-color brioche comes close. See if it might work for you.
it looks to me like a 2-color brioche with one of the yarns a worsted weight and the other a heavy or chunky weight – maybe even chenille, as was mentioned above. Here’s a link (if it works) to a tutorial in Ravelry It’s pretty close, but I think to replicate your stitch even more exactly, you would have to make not only vertical stripes, but horizontal stripes as well.
What do you think? Close?
Hi guys thanks so much for your help!
I tried the brioche but it was a little fiddly and I couldn’t quite get the hang of it. On the plus side I have managed to crack it! It was hair a basic stolinette that I described in my first post, only I used a thicker lack yarn, and doubled up the chenille and put it through a chunky knittin machine instead of by hand! Very simple and quick too.
I am however determined to master this brioche stitch 
Glad you solved the mystery stitch problem.
Take a look at the instructions online for fisherman’s rib stitch. It’s almost indistinguishable from brioche and you may prefer it.
