Picking up stitches in brioche

Hi all!

I am currently working on a top and the pattern calls for picking up 9 stitches to form the shoulders on brioche stitch. I don’t know exactly where to pick them up. I have no issues when it’s just knit stitches but this has me stumped with the yarn overs and all lol

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Are you picking up along a side edge or at the ends of the brioche?

What is the name of your pattern?

Thank you!

It’s the fluffy crop top from Lia Lykke. I’m supposed to pick up from the cast on edge starting at the edge stitch

You could pick up with the RS (right side) facing in every knit column or if you need more space in the knit columns and the spaced in between. If you need to pick up in the sts with yarn overs, treat the stitch and the yarn over as one stitch.

Alright this is what I was thinking too. Thanks so much for your help!!

Hello! I know this was posted a while ago hehehe but I’m working on the same pattern and I’m having trouble with the same thing. I’m so sorry but I don’t understand the explanation given in this thread, could you maybe walk me through it again?

The brioche tuck stitch can be worked in a couple of ways. Basicly what I was suggesting was to pick up sts in the knit sts and in the yarn over slip sts.
How are you working the stitch pattern?

Well, I’m fairly new to knitting and this is my first ever brioche project… I’m not sure how to answer the question. But here are two pictures of what the stitching/edge looks like!

Looks like lovely brioche.
Count the number of sts and then determine whether you need to pick up in every stitch or maybe every other or some combination of the two.
Every other stitch would be in the sts with blue dots. Every stitch would be both red and blue dot sts. You may also find that you need to pick up in each of the next 3sts then skip a stitch and repeat the pick up in 3, skip one pattern.

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Ah!! Thank you so much!! :heart:

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Hello again… I’m starting to think my problem is that I don’t know where in the stitch I’m supposed to pick up because whatever way I try it turns out wonky like this. The pattern says to pick up in the edge stitch and then the next 10 sts.

OK, are you going to bind these sts off first before picking up sts? Is that part of the instructions?
It seems in that after the bind off you’ll be picking up in every stitch including the edge stitch.
So you would bind off then pick up sts in the (yellow dot) edge stitch then in every stitch all the way to the end (blue dots).