A professional garment handler (like a dry cleaner) will stretch the sweater into a desired shape, fasten it in place, then force steam through it to get the yarns to relax into that shape. It's sort of like steam-bending with wood. After it is cool and dry, it will hold the "blocked" shape.
There are shaping problems in this sweater that don't show up in the photo, but hopefully the blocking will fix that.
The finished sweater for Arthur. It needs to be blocked.
3 comments:
Amazing! B-yoot-iful!
Very nice.
What does it mean this "blocked"?
A professional garment handler (like a dry cleaner) will stretch the sweater into a desired shape, fasten it in place, then force steam through it to get the yarns to relax into that shape. It's sort of like steam-bending with wood. After it is cool and dry, it will hold the "blocked" shape.
There are shaping problems in this sweater that don't show up in the photo, but hopefully the blocking will fix that.
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