Article Info

Article Title
Dreassing Your Wool, Shetland Style
Author
Rachel McNamara
Issue date
Summer 2025
Issue number
49
Issue topic
Tension
Description
The author wonders why spinners and knitters of Shetland lace left their shawls on the blocking board for a full two weeks. She experiments with different blocking times and the results and discovers why that two-week time period was so important for the finished shawl.
Article topic list
Shetland, lace, finishing, experimenting