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pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
Sat Jul 19, 2014, 10:38 AM Jul 2014

Guilty confession... [View all]

In all the years I've been knitting and crocheting, I have never blocked a finished project.

Until just recently.

I'm knitting an afghan using mitered squares. Well, it's a kit, and although they do try to send yarn that works up to the same gauge, sometimes it doesn't. So some squares turned up different sizes. They're supposed to be a final size of 6.5 inches square.

And I got some foam blocking squares and T-pins, sprayed those squares down, and started blocking.

Holy cow, does it ever make a difference!!!


So that's my guilty confession.

Ms. "I don't need to block this!!" is now reformed.


Anyone else have a guilty confession to make?





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