Noro Silk Garden Origami Shawl Knitting Kit

Description

Noro Silk Garden Origami Shawl Knitting Kit
This kit includes the following
9 Skeins of Noro Silk Garden yarn
One craft brown paper bag
One copy of the knitting pattern
NOTE
: color variations are a normal design feature of this and most Noro yarns. What you receive may look different on the outside or be a different dye lot than one of the photos, but all colors in the swatch photo will be in the skein.  We will not accept returns based on those color variations, unless you receive a kit version other than the above.
Noro Silk Garden Yarn
Fiber Content: 45% Silk, 45% Mohair, 10% Wool
Gauge:
Knitting: 4½-5
sts
per inch on US 7-8 needles
Crochet: 2¾-3½
sc
per inch on size 7/4.5mm - H8/5.0mm hook
Yardage:
50g per 108 yard
skein
Care: Dry clean
Approximate Completed Measurements
Width: 18¼" / 46½ cm; Length: 72" / 183 cm
Silk Garden yarn celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2021. This beautiful yarn has a passionate cult following and deservedly so. At last count, it has been used in nearly 50,000 projects on Ravelry and is available in dozens of fabulous color ways!  "I imagined a yarn that bloomed out of a garden of silk and silk/mohair fabric," says Mr. Eisaku Noro, its creator.
Silk Garden is prominently featured in multiple books like Timeless Noro or Silk Garden: 20th Anniversary Collection from our website including a trunk show.
ABOUT THE NORO BRAND:
Eisaku is an iconic Japanese Fiber Artist. For many years he has taken his aesthetic from the "Colors of Nature". Earth, Ocean, Sky have the hues that mark his colorful creations. He takes seemingly unrelated colors like a pink into green and then a shock of charcoal that one would find strange to combine. Yet it works. The vision is to take the eye from the bottom of the ocean to the tip of a mountain into the sky. So, the emergence of ocean colors of blue and purple with the majestic charcoal to cloudy skies have a certain vibe that works. His fibers were ecologically friendly decades before it was in vogue. Noro's color palate is consistent amongst all his fibers. Some of his most popular lines are created from the natural palates and are blended into merino-silk-cashmere and mohair textures that are elegantly self-striping. The knitter can either control the striping by alternating balls of yarn or work free-form out of one ball and allowing the colors to appear randomly creating "pools" of colors that blend into unexpected surprises. Mrs. Knits like to pool the colors because the joy of "surprise" keeps her knitting just one more row to see the pink pop into a charcoal and the hand of thick vs thin textures that float across her needles with glee.