How to Make a Hat Blocker
You will need
- some cardboard
- a push pin
- sting
- pencli or pen
- exact-o blade
- tapestry needle
1) Push the pin into the center of your board with a bit of string
2) At the other end of the string, attach a pencil or pen with a simple slip knot.
3) Trace a circle.
4) And cut!
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10 Comments on "Sunday Stitch – How to Block a Hat"
Thank you so much!
You are very welcome! Have fun blocking all your hats, lol.
I knit a new beret every year, whether I need it or not. I simply use the same pattern and come up with a different design always using the instructions from Anne Budd’s Handy Book For Patterns. Therefore, the same dinner plate always works for blocking my annual output.
That’s a good system you have there!
Great tips as usual. Thank you!
Most welcome!
Nice hats! I especially like the colors you used in your design on the left. And the hats certainly do look more beautiful when blocked – thanks for the tip on the cardboard! I don’t really need to block socks but it does show the stitches off better, so I do it if the socks are meant for a gift. I made a couple of coathanger feet that do the job. Now I’ll remember the cardboard option, too.
Socks are the one thing I don’t block. Don’t tell anyone. Its not that I think they aren’t worth the effort, its that I LOVE handknit socks and I can’t wait. I finish ’em and they go right on my feet.
Oh good! Let me know how it goes!