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This post feels like such a time warp - it's the next post in the baby blanket series, and in this one I'm talking about the problem with going around corners and how I solve it.  It took simply forever to edit this one, not only because it's a bit longer than they usually are, but because we threw a newborn into the mix around here and combined two households into one for a while there.  (How did I get anything done when my kids were little? Did I? Was it all just a blur of meals and laundry and rocking and lego and I simply remember it all feeling really efficient?) 

We're finally into a quieter rhythm, with the little family now spending most of their time at home, and both Joe and I are finding our way back to our desks and the enormous backlog of work we both have. Look for a few videos coming your way in fairly short order. 

As I promise in the video I'd like to talk about blocking, but I'd like to talk about more than blocking the blanket, and get into blocking in general, so here's two questions for you, and I'll answer them in upcoming videos. 

1. What questions do you have about blocking? Ask anything. 

2. Do you have follow-up blanket questions, or thoughts about blanket making you'd like me to talk about? 

Fire away.  I'm (finally) at my desk. 

Stephanie 

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Anonymous

How do you block something with sections so that each section is the same size, when you don't have enough room to block the whole thing all at once (or they overlap slightly)? I have a shawl with 6 pie segments, and it's been sitting finished except for blocking for over two years - I don't have a space big enough to block the whole thing at once, and I want each section to be the same.

Anonymous

Do the parents have to block the blanket each time they wash it? It's what is stopping me from knitting my own blanket.. Newborns spit and poo so much, and I'm afraid it will get blocked once and they be a mess forever because we can't be bothered in the baby-timewarp that is the first year.

Sonja Barneveld

No - not if it’s been blocked well the first time. The main one I used for all my babies would have been washed and dried flat (surprisingly it doesn’t need it that often as typically there are layers before the shawl) And then it would go to my mum for a wash after the baby wasn’t really using it anymore. She would sometimes give it a light refresh block. That’s all it needed and was still in good enough shape to be a book illustration twenty years later.