Bond Machine Knitting - Curling Edges
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 19:03:41 -0400
From: "Linda M. Cole"
Subject: [BOND] curling edges
Here is a trick I learned years ago when I started knitting afghans on
the KM -
1. Fold the afghan in half (i.e. put top edge and bottom edge
together).
2. Hand baste loosely around the three edges - not on the fold.
3. Put the afghan in the dryer with a damp washcloth and a fabric
softener sheet.
4. Set the dryer on your Permanent Press cycle and run for about 20
- - 30 minutes (depends on your dryer for time).
5. Take the afghan out while it is still warm and spread it flat on
a bed or table. Do not take the hand basting out yet. I usually wait a
few hours or overnight before I take the basting out.
6. If this doesn't do the trick, repeat the process again but fold
the other way (i.e. put sides together instead of top and bottom).
This works really well with acrylic yarns. If your using anything
other than acrylic - test this process on your swatch before you put the
finished afghan in the dryer.
Hope this helps some of you!!
Linda C. in Northeast PA
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 19:29:16 -0600
From: andie@cavemen.net (Miller, Andrea)
Subject: Re: [BOND] Curling Blanket Edges
I have found a few edgings on the internet that are for the edging for
blanket. I have not tried these but it does look like to me that they would
help with the curling edges and they do not seem like they would be any more
time consuming then crocheting. I have attached the URL.
http://www.yarns-and.com/wormtrim.htm
Hope this helps,
Andrea mother of 3 wonderful childern (5, 4 & 2), we raise pigmy goats,
Emus, 2 dogs, chickens, guineas, and turkeys. I love my BOND ISM
and hope to learn more every day.
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 09:23:26 -0500
From: Jody Tapley
Subject: Re: [BOND] Baby Blanket #4
Don't you just hate that curling???? Drives me bonkers. Of course my kids
will tell you that doesn't take much..... *G*
First thing to remember, in time that curling will stop. It will take a while,
months, but it will get better. I've found that one row of crochet isn't
enough to stop it, but 2 or 3 rows of single crochet does. Won't help with
this afghan, but on your next one, you can do a few stitches of shaker rib on
the edges and that will stop it. Someone mentioned a while back about doing an
ewrap around several sts at the edges and that worked. I haven't tried that
one, but plan to.
There's also several other things you can do, but most have to be done while
you're knitting the blanket. I'd say your best bet is another row or two of
crochet with this one.
Jody in Granbury, Texas
jodylt@itexas.net
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 12:01:01 EDT
From: ChrisMLT@aol.com
Subject: Re: [BOND] Curling Blanket Edges
I find that steaming the edges before I wash it works best (for me anyway).
It's time consuming and ackward but it works.
Chris in Central Georgia
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:59:56 -0500
From: "Ann Yotter"
Subject: Re: [BOND] Baby Blanket #4
Try doing 2 rows of sc, either in rounds going the same direction, or turn
and reverse the second row. Then do a row of shells last. a shell is 5
dcs covering 5 scs along the edge. You skip over 2 sc, make the 5 dc in
that 3rd sc, skip 2 more sc, and sc to tack the end down by making an sc in
the 3rd sc past where the cluster of 5 was made. This makes a nice
scallop along the edge. Try to hit the corner with the end of a shell or
the very center. If the center hits the corner, then make enough extra dcs
to curve around the edge to lay flat, maybe 2 or 3. Looks nice especially
on a baby blanket or a fancy afghan and is easy to do. I've also done it
on the ends of an afghan instead of fringe.
Ann in Tenn
gyotter@nash.tds.net
Author : Steph Thornton.
Last modified on : 5th October 1998.
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