Finally...the long-running Mason Dixon Bubble curtain project is finished. Started this time last year and doggedly picked up at irregular intervals, it's been one of those knitting projects which just runs and runs, never appearing to get any longer until suddenly... it's done! I'll never knit another curtain, that's for sure. The best part of the whole deal was blocking, and watching the crumpled heap miraculously stretch and open up into a curtain-like shape. I soaked the curtain in cold water, then used a million pins to fasten it to a large bit of plywood which I propped outside in the sunshine. It took only a couple of hours to dry and along the way I squirted it with copious amounts of starch for added stability and form.
And finally...the grand hanging! Amazingly, it was the right size for the window! (my sizing is a hit and miss affair...) The starch helps it hang without sagging whilst the holes and 'knittiness' of it lets the light filter through. You can't see through it from the outside, either. Phew and yay.