Posted by Thank you for all your suggestions yesterday regarding blocking my crochet squares.
You’ll be pleased to here I’ve had success on the blocking front.
Due to cats and husbands I prefer to keep my work off the floor and so went with pinning them to my ironing board.
I am fortuitous that last time I replaced my ironing board cover I went with a stripy one which helped get a nice good square shape no end!
So here we go. I managed 9 on the board. I could have fitted another 3 but I ran out of pins!
Before stretching them into submission I hovered over them with my steam iron and then did the same again once pinned.
And this morning I unpinned the lot to reveal these. What a huge difference blocking has made!
Success, don’t you think?
Love, Lucie x
Love, Lucie 
I heard my own sharp intake of breath when I saw your squares — they are STUNNING 🙂
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Thank you very much. I’m really looking forward to seeing it come together.
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Agreed! Wonderful improvisation. Good supervisor!
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I’m so pleased they’ve turned out so well.
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Blocking is dull but so worth the effort – what a difference it’s made! Lesson learned…..?
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Absolutely!
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What a difference. Blocking makes such a huge difference and provides an impressive before and after opportunity 🙂 x
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I should have known better! I was just racing ahead of myself! I think I have possibly learnt a lesson on patience.
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lol, we’ve all don it at some time or other 🙂 x
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WOW! They look great! Good to see it wasn’t a failure after all 🙂
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No, just me being impatient.
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That’s definitely something I suffer from too. Shhh, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve never blocked anything in my life.
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Aaaah, that’s better. Now tell me, what does your husband do on the floor that bears comparison with your cats?
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Ha, ha! It’s just the tutting as he has to walk around it. We’ve not many open spaces that are carpeted
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glad you had success!
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They look great. I have to confess my ignorance here. Until you started posting about blocking your squares I had no idea that it needed to be done. Thanks for sharing. We can all learn from your learning experience.
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I think depending on the pattern you can get away with it sometimes. But in this case, not!
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I never even knew what blocking was before I discovered blog land! It does seem to make a huge difference.
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Ha! Same here!
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A great comeback!
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Yay. They are transformed. X
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Good luck for tomorrow!!!!
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I am so sorry I appeared to ignore all your wishes. It was a mad time. My mum had an op on the Saturday which was hard and took up a lot of my time….then it happened! No time for anything extra. Sorry. X
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Absolutely no problem at all. Didn’t give a moment. Your mum ok now?
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Hoping so. Get details of further treatment needed on Monday.
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Wishing you so much luck today!
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Thanks. Xx
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Hello!!!!!. Are you nervous?
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Sorry. It was all a bit mad! Yes I was. Excited too tho.
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Oh yes, a big difference!!
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