Doing my block-ing

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To do one’s block means to lose one’s temper but here, ‘blocking’ means something quite different. I’ve promised my friend I’ll join some knitted squares together to make a rug. I think my friend’s mother knitted these many years ago. There are a number of different colours and the sizes vary a little too. The sizing will cause a problem so I have blocked the smaller pieces to try to get them to match the larger ones. I cut a template from a piece of cardboard. That’s the orange you can see in the image. I placed the template on a rug then pinned each piece to fit the template, stretching it if necessary. Then I pressed each piece with a steam iron. While not perfect, this has helped a lot and the pieces are now more or less all the same size. I’ve removed the edging that was around some of the pieces, sewn in all the ends, sorted the colours into some sort of pattern and the next step will be to crochet the pieces together. I thought I had 50 pieces but there is only 33 so I’ll be having five rows of six. Once they’re all joined together, I’ll crochet a border round the whole thing. It’s nice to have a project on the go.