The Peacock's Tail!

This knitting project is done as much I can make it.  It really needs blocking but my blocking bars are in Vermont.

This shows how badly blocking is needed.  I do have to say that the cast-off was a bit strange to me, but I did it anything, thinking it would come out okay in the end. I am not so sure.  It is a crocheted bind off--chain 7, chain 3 stitches together.  It makes a more or less scalloped edging but rather strange without blocking.

We do not have a round table at the apartment so I went over to the church because I was sure I had seen some round tables.  This is a small round table, which is smaller than the cloth is meant for, and you can CLEARLY see the need for blocking in this picture.  As I am typing I am thinking that possibly I can do a semi-blocking.  There are sixteen tail feathers. I have at least that many pins so maybe I will give it a try.

Here is the tablecloth on a rectangular table which shows the lace to better advantage but still not right.  It gave me joy to knit this up and if it gets blocked to attractiveness, I will be even happier.

UPDATE:  Just as I was getting ready for bed the thought came to me that perhaps I could block the tail after all.  This is how it looks after wetting the cloth, spinning dry in the washer and pinning to the carpet.

Hopefully it will dry in a pretty situation!

Knitting Today: Updated Blocking Board

One afghan square on the homemade blocking board is such a pretty thing.  The job gets done.   Having said that, with a pile of 25 or so squares to block, and looking at the size of the blocking board, it seemed like I could put three more squares on the board.  The blocking should be accomplished much more rapidly.

In some ways, this does not have to happen quickly because I have perhaps 30 more squares to knit, but...once I started the blocking, I have been so pleased with the results that I wanted more gratification!  Why have I not blocked anything all these years?  Oh, wait...I did not have a blocking board.  AND I did not think it was that important.  Now I do.

This morning I found my husband's T-Square and drew three more squares on the blocking board, thus I can now block four squares at once.  Nice!

Since taking this picture, I have gone back to the bedroom and smoothed out the blue and natural block as best I could and straightened out the line on the light blue and dark blue square by adding another row of pins where the straightening needed to be. I am hopeful that both blocks will be more nearly perfect by they time they completely dry.