Discover your heart’s knit desire with Soulmate Shibori Shawl.
Three extraordinary yarns ~ Silken Straw, Sparky & Sanctuary ~ unite in simple stripes of stockinette and garter stitch, accented with a lovely central chevron lace panel, and culminating in an elegant chevron lace border.
The elegant & versatile mitered triangular shawl knits up in a satisfying flash, and is then lightly felted to achieve the sensational shibori effect.
Mixing equal parts drama, sophistication and grace, the Soulmate Shibori Shawl is a true Alchemy couture masterpiece.

A Word about the Special Technique of Shibori Knitting
While the Japanese word “shibori” cannot be directly translated into English, it basically denotes a “shape resist textile.” Most people are familiar with the concept of Tie Dye (originally called 4
“tie and dye”), which is the most popular understanding of shibori. Ties such as rubber bands or strings are secured on a piece of fabric, and then that fabric is dyed; the fabric resists the dye where it has been bound.

Gina Wilde’s shibori design is an exploration of manipulating knit fabric, harnessing the effects of working differing types of yarns together (combing felting and non-felting fibers in one knit piece). In this shawl, the silk yarns (A & B) act as a resist to the wool/silk felting yarn (yarn C). When felted in a washing machine, the silk yarns actually grow in the process, while the wool/silk blend shrinks and felts (or fulls). The result produces a textured and dramatic knit fabric, one that is light and airy, rather than the heavy dense fabric achieved when using traditional felting methods and yarns.