When you pin out your #knitting until you have only 3 pins left... Muscle soreness from blocking is totally a thing right? Because I have been lying on the ground, adjusting needles for half an hour now, ouch. This is the Stole of the Seas by Melanie Berg, it is for my mother in law's birthday and I'm really proud because I already finished knitting in February, booyah! #mastoarts #fiberarts
@Virelai it’s definitely a very physical process for me, too.
@gannet today my boyfriend asked me if I could just put the blocking mats on top of the laundry rack that was standing right besides the mats... At least for this Stole it had the perfect length... Man I wish he would've had that idea yesterday! Pinning while standing would have been much more comfortable!
@Virelai what a grand idea! I block lace swatches for stitch patterns, mostly, so that’s easy enough to do on the ironing board, but I had two lace shawls on the bed (on different days) last month. I don’t really have a better spot, unfortunately.
@Virelai exactly!
@gannet yep, it's a perfect fit! Most shawls I knit are triangular though, I'm not sure if I'll be able to use his idea anytime soon! Blocking always needs so much space, ugh! But what can we do - at least it does wonders often enough in transforming our knitting :)