Blocking Lace

The magic of lace blocking is always worth seeing, right?

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After:


I'm glad to be done knitting this piece that I'm calling the MagPi shawl (based on the Pi shawl, made from a magpie-like collection of bits). I'm sorry that I lost faith in the concept near the end and doubled the stitches prematurely at the last green part. Apart from the fact that I had to keep scrambling to find more yarn for the cast off, now it has a sloppy, not-remotely-ruffly edge. I think I'm going to stretch it over a big circle of... something and mount it on the wall.