Here is one last picture of the spring Mystery Shawl, after it got dunked in the warm water and pinned out to dry.
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The lace is more lacy.
The point of blocking a shawl is to get the lace to open up and become more “lacy” for lack of a better word. The shawl lies flat and the edges don’t curl. Honestly, I’m a rotten blocker and really need to woman-up and buy some blocking wires. And learn how to bind off more loosely. Had I had a looser bind-off, those little proto-points in the picture could have been way more spiky.
I’m actually planning on starting yet another Mystery Shawl next week. I’m a herd animal, and my friends are doing it so I will too. There is also a real attraction for me in leaping blindfolded into a project like this. I would never do it with a sweater project. But I wear shawls all scrunched up around my neck like a scarf, so other than the color it just doesn’t much matter what the pattern actually looks like.
As for this shawl, its already on its way as a gift to a special person who I think will like it.
