Over the past few weeks I have crocheted lots of things which need blocking. I have never blocked anything before. Blocking, or pressing or making-up, is a brilliant finishing technique where you dampen and press out you crochet, pulling it into shape with pins and leave it to dry, so that the shape and pattern of your crochet is enhanced...
Sometimes this process can involve starch. I decided to follow Lesley Stanfield's tip, in75 birds, butterflies and beautiful beasties to knit and crochet,and use PVA glue to give my starflakes more strenght and extra shine...
I also decided to add glitter into the PVA, for extra sparkle! You dilute the PVA with water and mix in your glitter.
Soak your crochet for about ten minutes. Squeeze out the excess water and then pin out your crochet on a pin board. Make sure that the pins you are using are rust-proof and make sure your pin board is covered with cling-film, otherwise you will have a big mess and will never be able to take your crochet off the board...
Wait for twenty-four hours, or until your crochet is completely dry, and then carefully take the pins out and ta-dah - your crochet should look even more brilliant than it did before...
Will show you how mine turned out on my next post: though hopefully some of you might already know...
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