Envined Shawl Resources

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Envined Shawl: dark grey garter stitch short-row shawl with a lace border modeled by Erin, who is wearing a grey t-shirt. She is outdoors, looking away from the camera.

The following resources (in alphabetical order) will help you out with the stitches and techniques used in Envined:

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Blocking Tips

To block the sample, I used blocking wires, blocking mats, and pins. After giving it a nice, long soak and squeezing the excess water out with a towel, here's what I did.

Envined Shawl laid out on blocking mats, with the top edge relatively straight and the points along the bottom edge pinned out.
 
One end of the Envined Shawl, pinned out on blocking mats.
 
The middle of the Envined Shawl, pinned out on blocking mats.

I ran blocking wires along the top edge, all the way down to the tips of the lace border, and laid the shawl out on my mats. I pinned the wires straight, gently stretching the fabric outward as I went and allowing the lace border ends to bend slightly downward.

Then, starting at the center point, I pulled each point (made by the columns of central double decreases -- NOT the columns of twisted stitches) straight down from the top edge and stuck a single pin in each. For a more symmetrical shawl, I tried to mirror how far out I pulled corresponding points on each shawl.