Ok, so the bit where the yellow opens up and we just run in yellow for a we run for a while in yellow with the blue only sort of peeking out in the background…what is that called? It’s not just one color brioche. The blue is in there, every other row, just modified slightly.

So here’s how this works. Normally with two color brioche in the round, it goes like this:

• On one round, with one color (yellow here): knit 1 (catching the wrap of the other color from the previous round along with the stitch you’re knitting), slip 1 (wrapping the yarn over the stitch as you slip it)
• On the next round, with the other color (blue here): slip 1 (wrapping the yarn over the stitch as you slip it), purl 1 (catching the wrap of the other color from the previous round along with the stitch you’re purling)

What’s happening here, for the solid yellow bit is:

• On one round, with one color (yellow here): knit 1 (catching the wrap of the other color from the previous round along with the stitch you’re knitting), knit 1
• On the next round, with the other color (blue here): slip 1 (wrapping the yarn over the stitch as you slip it), slip 1 (you can totally do this in one move where you wrap once and slip 2 stitches together at the same time)

So you’re never purling on the blue rounds (just wrapping and slipping). And you’re never slipping on the yellow rounds (just knitting or knitting and catching the wrap from the previous round). So the yellow becomes dominant, but the blue does still peek through and form orderly lines between the knit stitches.

It’s not the same as one color brioche (there are two colors involved, you’re never wrapping with the yellow, you’re never purling at all, all of which are different from one color brioche worked in the round).

It’s not intarsia (the colors all continue the whole way around, you don’t have patches of one color then another).

It’s just…pretty. And tidy. And pleasant to work. But as of right now, I don’t have good words for it… So, what’s it called, and who else is doing it? Because I am for damn sure not the first/only person to have thought of it. So magical internet, do your thing…go find it for me and let me learn about it!