I finished the shawl yesterday, then washed it to be blocked, and then... I made a horrible discovery. My new apartment doesn't have carpet!
Okay, this discovery isn't really new... I LOVE my hardwood floors... but where am I going to block my shawl? At my last place, I found some out of the way place and blocked it using the carpet and mastic to hold my pins, but here, I don't have that! Even before, I used homosode board from Warren's stop motion set. I don't have that either.
I guess I'm going to have to invest in blocking mats. I tried to use the futon cushion but the pins wouldn't go in well, and when they did they were easily pulled out. I guess I could use the mattress to our bed, but then where would we sleep? Would Dan make that sacrifice? (Probably not.)
Still, I love this shawl. I took it down from it's farce of a blocking spot and played with it when I got home from work, and tried to take pictures on my phone. Of course, it's after dark, so that probably doesn't help! But here are some photos.
Tomorrow I will pull out the camera and take some REAL photos that you can actually "Oooh" and "Ahh" at. For now I have these, and some photos of my landlord's cat. His name is Roo and I steal him sometimes when they aren't home. >_> (Not really steal, I always send him home when I hear them come in, and I don't feed him anything or keep him overnight. And if I thought it bothered them I wouldn't do it! I swear! I would just lie on the porch or in the stairwell and cuddle him.)
Until then... V for Victory over a shawl! Mwah.
