Now you see it, now you don’t!  Pat’s Illusion Bat Shawl is her first foray into the world of shadow knitting.  This is a technique where you knit 2-row stripes in contrasting colours, and make a pattern from the placement of knits and purls.  Purl sections in one colour contrast against knit stitches in the other colour, and vice versa.  The whole design only shows up when you view it at an angle.  Straight on, all you see are stripes.

The pattern is the Illusion Shawl Bat, available on Ravelry.  Pat used four skeins of Artfil Belle, two each of charcoal gray and hot pink.

Like all shadow knitting patterns, it’s very easy to work.  But, you do have to keep track of knits and purls, so there’s a lot of counting involved.  As long as you don’t mind that, it’s a really fun technique!