It takes courage to knit something and then felt it. But by letting go of standard assumptions about fiber and embracing felted shibori knitting—a twist on traditional means of fabric embellishment—this exquisite art offers a radically new way to create a lighter, more nuanced, and more ethereal finished fabric. Shibori Knits highlights the intersection between shibori and knitting, offering patterns that utilize this transformative technique. You will discover ways to add shibori to knitting in three different fashions. The first method uses physical resists that prevent specific areas of knitting from felting. The second uses nonfelting fibers like silk. And finally, the third method, creates ruffles and spirals when the fibers are worked in more than one direction, which when felted will shrink differently in the alternate directions. Knitters of every skill can explore this exciting method of creating art out of knitting. 20 patterns—128 pages  | Hardcover Retail: $27.50 Item No. 31131