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Jul 2021
7:28pm, 17 Jul 2021
313 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Another from by Step-by-Step book:
I was expecting it to be bigger, from the picture, but I guess I should have realised it wouldn't be huge, considering it's just two 50g balls of yarn. So, small, but I'm still pleased with it.
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Jul 2021
7:46pm, 17 Jul 2021
8,026 posts
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The Great Raemondo
I feel like it will stretch quite a bit.
Or is this already post blocking?
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Jul 2021
7:47pm, 17 Jul 2021
16,177 posts
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Ness
It’s ver nice! 
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Jul 2021
8:10pm, 17 Jul 2021
314 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
I'm hoping it'll stretch a bit. What's post blocking?
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Jul 2021
6:47am, 18 Jul 2021
8,028 posts
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The Great Raemondo
Blocking is when you soak it in water (preferably with something like woolite or eucalan to wash and condition it, and make it smell nice) then pin it out to dry in the shape you want it to be. A lot of people use the big foam jigsaw tiles that you get for making play surfaces for babies to pin the thing yo, or if you have a spare bed that can also work. It works best with real wool, but also helps open up stitches in other fibres in my experience.
After (or post) blocking things often look quite a lot bigger. I don't think I have any good before and after pics to demonstrate it, but I'm sure there will be a load of videos on youtubes. I'll have a look.
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Jul 2021
6:51am, 18 Jul 2021
8,029 posts
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The Great Raemondo
There's a whole big long description about it here, with some before and after type pictures
https://doradoes.co.uk/2020/02/22/blocking-explained-when-and-how-to-block-crochet-projects/#:~:text=Blocking%20is%20essentially%20a%20way,wires)%20then%20left%20to%20dry.&text=Blocking%20can%20also%20help%20to%20improve%20the%20drape%20of%20a%20finished%20item.
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Jul 2021
6:53am, 18 Jul 2021
8,030 posts
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The Great Raemondo
Huh that link went really weird.
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Jul 2021
8:51pm, 18 Jul 2021
317 posts
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LouiseRuns 🌹🇬🇧 🇪🇺
Ooh, that sounds interesting, I may give it a try! All I've done so far is shove lots of things in it. It takes a surprising amount of stuff.
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Jul 2021
7:37am, 19 Jul 2021
8,077 posts
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sallykate
For acrylic yarn I pin it into shape then hover a steaming iron over it (so it just gets the steam and isn’t touched by the iron). It works wonders on wonky squares.
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Jul 2021
2:46pm, 19 Jul 2021
5,782 posts
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Wine Legs
Hello yarn lovers... please can you recommend me places to visit in the Lake District? Thanking you kindly!
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