Friday, June 1, 2012

Blocked

The Color Affection came off the needles this morning. I was not impressed. It was too skinny. It didn't look like the other ones I had seen. Did I do something wrong?

I dug out all my instruments of yarn torture, thinking it may just need a good blocking.

After a good soak and a ride in the salad spinner, I wove in my blocking wires and pinned it out.

Nope. This wasn't going to work. I wanted a straight edge not a pointy one.

 The answer was a lot simpler than I imagined. I just had to pat it into place with my hands letting the natural curve do its job. Now it's nice and fat and round-like all the rest of them.

The yarnover trick worked very well. The edge was nice and loose-plus it's very pretty, even where I had to twist the colors so extremely to get them to go up the edge You can't see the twists at all. I used Stephen West's stretchy bind off from his Pogona shawl. Someone put a video tutorial up on You Tube and it was just what I was looking for. It is a simple k2tog through the back loops, slip back to left needle and repeat. The only problem is that now I want to make a pink one.

5 comments:

  1. I think the lime green yarn is what makes that shawl so great! The problem I'm having with starting one of my own is that I can't make up my mind for the three colours!

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  2. Nice job....love the colors!!!!! I'm curious to know if that bind off is stretchier than the Russian bind off. I'm looking for a good bind off for socks.

    loulouandlillybean

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    1. I have used both bind offs and I think that the Russian is stretchier. I used this one because it gives a very smooth, finished edge. I don't think I would use it for ribbing or for lace though.

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    2. Thanks. Good to know...I'll stick with the Russian.

      loulouandlillybean

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  3. love the way it turned out. the green is gorgeous

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