Anita writes: <<Anyway - why block - << >>to keep the shape, of course. As wool socks tend to felt somewhat in wearing if you have blockers the correct size they will block back to their original shape, and they dry mush faster than if laid flat.>>
Yeah. It's true. I had forgotten about that. The bottoms of the feet have a habit of sort of fulling up. I guess we forget that wearing shoes provides the heat and agitation that can cause fulling and/or felting. Although, I'm not as brave as some of you. I don't throw my hand knit socks into a washer and/or dryer. >>I hang my socks over the edge of the tub--they rarely take more than a day to >>dry. My socks don't felt and/or shrink, handspun or commercial sock yarn. << You are fortunate, then. Even my made from micro-material socks felt up on the soles of the socks. Washing does fluff them up a bit, but there's still some matting on the sole of the foot. wrnk d2 (wondering if she should flick card the bottoms of the micro-material socks) To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
