I remember the first time I saw Shibui at the trade show. So beautifully displayed – different fibers lined up in rows of coordinating colors against a black backdrop. I loved it all so much, but to be honest, I was a little intimidated, and I just moved on. I told Mary and Ginni about this yarn line I had seen, and they were intrigued, and when we were all at the show together, I decided to make an appointment in the Shibui booth – just to talk to the owner and the designer. Well,
Reed is the smooth, suave linen fiber that's totally changed my mind about knitting with linen. When Shibui introduced this yarn, I kept touching it and thinking; Wow, this is linen? Really? It's so smooth - so soft -- so silky. How can this be? The answer is in the construction. Rather than being a traditional plied yarn, Reed is a fine chainette that creates suppleness and loft in a fiber that lacks both. This fingering weight yarn that takes advantage of linen's crispness but tempers it into a lovely smooth fiber that has totally seduced me. Reed, you are my kind of fiber...