I think it needs another blocking. I've never blocked lace before, and the first thing I did wrong was to roll too much water out of it, so it was too dry. I tried to block it on some plastic over a quilt on the guest-room mattress, forgot the egg-crate foam was under the sheeets. I should have put the plastic directly on the mattress. The pins didn't want to stay in (and now I know why people use T-pins and not standard sewing pins). It's still a little bumpy on the back, but it's incredibly soft, and it's blocked out to 19" middle, 24" ends, and 60" length. I think I can get the whole thing evenly out to 25" wide with a proper blocking location.
But.. later. It's incredibly soft, it's gorgeous, and also I need to go work on Sock Wars.
5 comments:
Oh, wow. That's lovely. I'm delighted that the yarn worked so well with that stitch pattern.
I want some of that yarn! Since I know you won't give me the shawl.
AND I CAN'T FIND YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS TO THANK YOU FOR THE FLOWERS SO I'M THANKING YOU HERE IN FRONT OF YOUR ADORING PUBLIC.
They're gorgeous and Andy only managed to eat one.
You never said you had a guest room.
Beautiful!
I love it!
Lindy
Very pretty! I love the colors.
I've used sewing pins when blocking, but I also block on cardboard. Works for me as long as the cat doesn't come by and pull the pins out with his teeth.
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