Alpaca Scarf
February 2015

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Knitted lace is usually all wrinkled up when you finish knitting and needs to be blocked (spread and flattened) to show off the lace pattern. That's hard to do when you have a loop with a twist!
It has been washed, wires were run through every stitch along the edges, then two more wires pinned into the folds.

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Pins pulled, the wires along the folds removed and the others manipulated so that the blocked side is now twisted and the other side can be flattened..

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Pinned out again, with the crossed wires spread as far as possible so that the first side stays blocked. The bottom has been "spritzed" with water to dampen it again while trying to keep the top layer dry.

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In spite of spreading the crossed wires, enough moisture seeped into the first side that it crinkled up again. So it was off to the ironing board where it could be pinned out (half at a time) without the rest of the scarf being moistened. The steam iron provided moisture for quick flattening.

(17:02:2015)

All finished and ready to be modeled by the "scarf bear." It is about 10 inches wide and about 50 inches "circumference." It used sightly less than half of the skein so I can make another scarf!

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