The Cool Wool School Brioche Learn-A-Long (LAL) is running live in 2025!
A Technique So Fabulous Even On The Reverse It Looks Amazing - Who Wouldn't Want To Learn?
A LAL to help you learn how to work & gain confidence in using the beautiful Brioche knitting technique
Brioche is a knitting technique that uses its own special set of stitches to create a fabulous texture, unlike any other type of knitting. It creates a lovely warm, squishy, reversible rib-like fabric, which looks fantastic on both sides.
Brioche follows its own rules, so it's unlike anything you've tried before. If you're ready to try something new, brioche is a great choice, so come on in and join in the fun!
You can choose free weekly access, or for only £17, you can have access to all the videos and resources from each week of the LAL sitting on your digital bookshelf to refer back to at any time in the next 12 months!
Knitters Are Always Looking For a New Challenge... Are You?
Knit designers are catching on to brioche's popularity, and now more than ever there are lots of brioche patterns to choose from.
Two popular designers are Nancy Marchant – known as the ‘queen’ of brioche, and Stephen West who uses the technique often mixed with others in his ‘one of a kind’ shawl designs.
What’s Covered...
Week 1: The Basics, How Brioche Works and the Brk stitch
Week 2: Brp, Syncopated Brioche & the Continental Hold
Week 3: Using Two Colours & Lifelines
Week 4: Two Colour Syncopated Brioche
Week 5: Increases & Left Sloping Decreases
Week 6: Right Sloping Decreases
Week 7: Sample Stitch patterns
Week 8: Fixing Mistakes
Week 9: Casting Off, Next Steps, Designer Patterns
Student Reviews
Don't Take Our Word For It
Great Learning Experience
I really enjoy this course. I felt that the lessons were excellently explained and easy to follow.
The timing of lessons was great, giving plenty of time to get to grips with the stitches and practice each step before the next was introduced.
I am delighted that I was able to achieve these first stages in Brioche Knitting and feel that was all down to Carol’s excellent teaching. All in all this was indeed a great learning experience for me.
Laureen Ralston
Brioche from zero to I get it
What a brilliant course! The videos to follow were so well done and at a speed that you can knit along to and extensive notes to look back on. Fantastic as always.
Teri wareham
★★★★★
★★★★★
A brilliant introduction into Tech Editing
Carol is incredibly knowledgeable and a great teacher, I learnt so much over a few days and have now decided to continue my studies to become a Tech Editor. Thank you for such a great course.
★★★★★
Very helpful
This was just what I needed to get started. Brioche's instructions definitely daunted me, and they made no sense to me, but this course was a pain-free way to demystify them. Thank you so much for offering this resource!
Valina Cutler
What Else Is Included?
As well as all the fabulous videos and resources, you also get
Links to 6 beautiful patterns from various designers (with their permission) are included
I will also be revealing a new design of my own towards the end of our time together.
Brilliant course
Thank you, Carol, for this course; the videos and notes are very helpful, well explained, and easy for me to learn Brioche. Looking forward to part 2!
Carine Art
★★★★★
Very useful
I thoroughly enjoyed doing this course. I found it very informative and it has given me the skills to make things in brioche knitting.
Clare Jeffs
★★★★★
Wonderful introduction to Brioche
I really enjoyed the pace of this course, each part had enough to be a do-able challenge, and each module led on nicely from the previous one. Thank you Carol!
Mairin Ni Dhonncha
★★★★★
Brioche part one
Superb course, lovely clear instructions both written and video. Looking forward to part two. In meantime doing jumper in single colour with increases and decreases.
Teresa Cresswell
★★★★★
Are You Ready?
My aim is for you to master a number of techniques, hints & tips which will help you on your brioche journey, so that you feel comfortable working on the many beautiful brioche patterns out there.
Excellent
Seeing and hearing the instructions made it more comprehensible than reading them, thank you. I am feeling more confident now.
Sara Whitley-Kinzett
★★★★★
What's not to love!
I have really enjoyed the Brioche learn-a-long. I have found both the notes and video's to be of a high quality, in fact the notes were so good I didn't really need to watch all the video.
It has been wonderful to learn something new and challenging, I did mess up a few times so need to practice, despite this I feel confident enough in my new skills to move on and try out one of the recommended patterns. Just need to decide which one.
Thank you Carol for yet another wonderful course that has inspired me to progress my skills further.
Sally Coomber
★★★★★
As described...
Really helped a lady in her 70’s who has always wanted to do brioche. Fantastic
Rosalind Daniels
★★★★★
Why Learn from Me?
I have been involved in teaching for much of my working life, first of all in the world of computing and now in the wonderful world of knitting and crochet.
As we know teaching real world knitting workshops in yarn shops took a nose dive when Covid hit, so I started to investigate how to get my workshops up and running online.
I invested in a course for myself to ensure that I could give my students the best possible experience of learning online. I didn't want to just throw some resources online and hope people would be able to learn from them!
Well, that course stood me in good stead and I now have comprehensive techniques workshops as well as tech editing introductory workshops running online, which are taken by a whole host of people.
I am passionate about teaching and love the responses I get from satisfied students - there is nothing better than getting feedback from folk who have learned from my workshops and now have a new skill under their belt.
I would love for you to be one of those people and enjoy the incredible world of Brioche knitting.
I am Carol and I help those who love knitting or crochet to be able to learn new skills and share their passion for these wonderful crafts
Frequently asked questions
Where Will These Workshops Happen?
The videos are all self-study and are released weekly; you will be notified via email each Wednesday morning.
You can also download and print the notes accompanying each video.
How Long Is Each Session
The pre-recorded modules are broken into chunks, each one covering a specific topic. There are exercises at the end of each main topic for you to work on.
You can follow along with the videos as you work on the exercises or watch the videos first and then do the exercises from the written notes. It's completely up to you.
Will I Be Able To Ask Carol Questions?
There will be a facebook group you can join, you may ask questions here, however we can not guarantee all questions will be answered as the groups are generally quite large, if you require 1:1 time we suggest booking a 1:1 call or you join us in the Cool Wool Community you can ask Carol questions and meet others. The Community can be accessed here: https://courses.coolwoolschool.com/products/communities/cool-wool-community
Will I Be Confident to take on any Brioche Pattern After This Workshop?
This LAL covers the Part 1 Fundamentals workshop. After completing it, you will be confident working with most row-based Brioche patterns and able to fix most issues you may encounter.
After the Part 2 Advanced workshop / LAL, you will be able to work Brioche in the round, take on more advanced stitch patterns, read Brioche charts, produce beautiful finished edges and fix any issues - you can purchase Part 2 Advanced immediately after you finish Part 1 Fundamentals or you can join us in November for the LAL - details released in the course portal on Week 9.