Blocking is such an awesome thing, isn’t it?
pinned
It can take a ruffled mess like this:
couldn’t look much sloppier
And turn it into this:
schweet!
The lace opens up, the peak at the center top disappears, and the ruffled edges turn into smooth scallops.
One long blocking wire took care of the top edge, but the scallops required pins. I didn’t go nuts on the pins, though. Each scallop is formed by eight yarn overs on the last right-side row, and I had feared I’d need a pin in each yarn over to finesse the scallops’ shape just right. Not so, fortunately: just four pins for most scallops (and a couple extra for those at the tips and at center bottom) did the trick.
worth the effort
Vital stats: Plucky Feet in Jazz Age, on 3.5 mm Signature Stiletto needles, using Half Leaf as the main stitch pattern and a variation of Swiss Fan for the edging.
Now, if only it would dry…
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