DH asked Bing’s AI (artificial intelligence) tool to write a brioche pattern for a hat, and wanted to know if it was any good. Calvin and I have gone through it, with our notes in red.
“Here’s a brioche knitting pattern for a hat.
Materials:
- 2 skeins of worsted weight yarn Should these be 2 different colors?
- US 6 (4mm) circular needles How long should these be?
- US 8 (5mm) circular needles I think these would make a fabric that’s too loose; tell me about gauge
- Stitch marker
Instructions:
- Using US 6 (4mm) circular needles, cast on 80 stitches. Is this a 2 color pattern? Which color should I use?
- Place stitchmarker and join in the round.
- Work *k1, sl1yo* around. Good through here, although it would be nice to know what sl1yo means.
- Switch to US8 (5mm) circular needles and work in two-color brioche stitch until hat measures 8 inches from cast on edge. Well now I know I’m using 2 colors. Ummmm, how do you work 2 color brioche stitch? Do tell!
- Decrease as follows:
Round 1: *k2tog, sl1yo* around. What happened to the brioche stitches? What do I do with all those yos? And this isn’t going to work out past the first 3 stitches, you’d end up making a sl1yo over the sl1yo from the previous round. Which means everything from here forward isn’t going to work. Especiall Rnds 4 and 6: *sl1yo* around. What?!
Round 2: *k1, sl1yo* around.
Round 3: *k2tog, sl1yo* around.
Round 4: *sl1yo* around.
Round 5: *k2tog* around.
Round 6: *sl1yo* around.
Round 7: *k2tog* around.
6. Cut yarn and weave in ends.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.”
Oh, I have questions. Luckily, it lists all of its sources, and you might be able to use one of those patterns to knit your hat. Or at least get an idea of how to knit one.
As I said, I’m not obsolete yet! I guess I could use the chatbot to get a pattern started, and then edit like crazy to get it to make sense. But it’s easier to just write the pattern from scratch.
If you’d really like to learn how to knit 2 color brioche rib in the round, I highly recommend my Petite Brioche headband pattern, which is free here on this site. This is the pattern I use in my beginning brioche classes; I’ve taught hundreds of new brioche knitters. I have lots of brioche hat patterns when you’re ready for those, too.
Have you used an AI chatbot? What did you think of the results?
PDXKnitterati 