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Look, I never said I wasn't easily amused. I fully admit to being scandalously easily amused.⁠ But also, I have been actually sewing stuff, like with a sewing machine. And that means I've been interacting with pins way way way more than anyone really needs to. And it turns out I rather like having a little magnetic pin holder to toss them on as I wrench them from my fabric or harvest them from as I impale said fabric.⁠ And yes, perhaps in an ideal world I'd just by one like a normal person.⁠ But I am not a normal [...]

And there it is dry and with the wires out. The second picture is pretty much the exact same shot before it was blocked so you can see the difference. The fabric is relaxed. The stitch pattern is clear with crisp lines of decreases and nice open yarn overs. The top and bottom both have a lovely scalloped edge with adorable little points. The fabric is several inches bigger left to right and top to bottom. The total active time (not counting soaking time or drying time) was about ten to fifteen minutes. I ran the two wires through the [...]

Now all we need to do is hang it up and wait for it to dry. You may have noticed I haven't said anything about getting your fabric wet yet. That's because I do not like weaving the wires through damp fabric. It just feels icky in my hands (and it's harder to take decent pictures of damp fabric, but that's probably only a problem for me). If you don't mind working with damp fabric, you can run the wires through while it's damp. Or, if you don't like it either, you can totally get it wet with the wires [...]

This...this is mostly here because it has a certain low budget space princess vibe that amuses me. But it is a good chance to take a moment and see how different fabric looks when it's under tension. Compare it to how it looked before. In the first picture, you've got the cowl with one wire at the bottom and another at the top. It's not actually blocked yet! If you take the wires out it will sproing right back. And in the second, you've got how it looked without the wires. Look at the difference in the edges (curled up [...]

Next step, do pretty much the exact same thing up top. This really is exactly the same process as at the bottom, so I'll just sort of vaguely gesture at the previous post and assume you can handle it.  Just pick your point, run your wire through, work your way around, and stretch it out. Don't be afraid to fiddle with the wire to adjust how much tension it's putting on your fabric. And remember you can stick a binder clip on the wire if the fabric is pushing back and making your circle close up too much. But the [...]