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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

FO: Orchid Thief

If you're not a knitter, you may not know this: a shawl isn't finished until it has been blocked. Before blocking, a shawl is just an undefined blob. But with blocking, there's magic.

The pattern emerges.

It becomes airy and delicate.

And it only took me 8 months after knitting to "finish" this one.

Why is that?

Details here on ravelry.

6 comments:

  1. maybe because blocking blows? I just had to reblock one of my shawls and even with blocking wires i think it took over an hour. blurgh!

    your shawl looks totally gorgeous though. just sayin.

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  2. hahaha! blocking does TOTALLY blow! Beautiful shawl :-D

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  3. It's stunning. I hate blocking.

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  4. I love, love, love it! And I loved seeing the transformation in person. I don't look forward to blocking my Brickless...I might need lessons. ha ha!

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    1. I did a horseshoe shape with my blocking mats (diagram on my blogpost here: http://www.stitchedtogether.co.uk/2013/09/brickless-behemoth.html) and curled it around, but I saw someone who simply pinned the top edge around the edges of an ironing board and let gravity take care of opening it up. It looked pretty good.

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  5. This looks so beautiful. I have this pattern, I really should knit it because whenever I see the finished projects I want one!

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