Walk around the block. Walk around the block Yesterday Mairi asked about blocking. How I do it, where I do it, what pins I have...how I manage the big stuff. There's lots of opinions on this, and many clever people have written about it. There's a knitty article here, and if you want to see it done by someone who really, really is not screwing around, check out Judy Gibson's pages. I am a really big fan of full-immersion multi pin blocking. Here's the Harlot Lace blocking method...such as it is. 1. I take a darning needle and smooth yarn (a piece much longer than I think the knitting will block out to) and thread it through the edge I would like to keep straight. 2. 3. 4. 5. The string is a brilliant thing. You don't want that. Speaking of pins, I use the dressmakers rustproof pins (that rustproof is important. 6. 7.
Don't worry about how lame it looks right now. 8. Working back and forth, side to side. 9. (That picture is totally crooked because I was too short to get the whole thing in the frame. 10. Yarn Harlot. My life in knitwear. Mrs U Makes... Chicken Stitches Blog. NyanPon's Knits and Crochet.