Gina Wilde

These 20 patterns maximise the innovative transformations that arise when shibori and knitting intersect. Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Gina Wilde guides knitters through three dynamic ways to add shibori to knitting:

1. Create a unique fabric using resists (marbles, corks) that prevent certain knitting areas felting & 3-D felted fabric with bobbles where there were no resists.

2. Nonfelting fibre (ie silk yarn knit with wool yarn) is the resist used to create windowpane effects or mimic woven fabric

3. Fibres are worked in several directions to create ruffles & spirals.

Whatever your level, transform knitting into something new, creating colourful, sculptural & delicate projects, with detailed info on fibres and their shibori potential, a technical felting concepts primer and a thorough resource guide.