Comments on: Cast-On Frenzy http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2009/06/cast-on-frenzy/ - the blog formerly known as bookish Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:36:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karie http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2009/06/cast-on-frenzy/comment-page-1/#comment-5725 Karie Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:01:24 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=1350#comment-5725 @DK: blocking? You wet the knitted piece and pin it out. Some things (like a sweater) you do not stretch into weird shaps. Lace shawls? You pin them to within a nanoscopic atom of their lives. It's very theraputic. Hey, savner dig for vildt. Virkeligt. Altså. @Anna: It's fab, isn't it? @DK: blocking? You wet the knitted piece and pin it out. Some things (like a sweater) you do not stretch into weird shaps. Lace shawls? You pin them to within a nanoscopic atom of their lives. It’s very theraputic. Hey, savner dig for vildt. Virkeligt. Altså.

@Anna: It’s fab, isn’t it?

]]> By: Darth Ken http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2009/06/cast-on-frenzy/comment-page-1/#comment-5724 Darth Ken Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:55:24 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=1350#comment-5724 Okay, I gotta ask (as one of the resident non-knitters ;)) ... what the hell is "blocking"? I assume it is some sort of stretching to make sure it gets the shape you want it too? But if so, why is it called "blocking"? Just curious about you crazy kids' slang here ;) Okay, I gotta ask (as one of the resident non-knitters ;)) … what the hell is “blocking”? I assume it is some sort of stretching to make sure it gets the shape you want it too? But if so, why is it called “blocking”? Just curious about you crazy kids’ slang here ;)

]]> By: Anna http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/2009/06/cast-on-frenzy/comment-page-1/#comment-5723 Anna Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:11:56 +0000 http://www.fourth-edition.co.uk/?p=1350#comment-5723 Wow, Topstykke is beautiful! Covet covet covet. Good luck with knitting it! Wow, Topstykke is beautiful! Covet covet covet. Good luck with knitting it!

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