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Friday, August 04, 2006

Holy Blocking Board Batman!

When Dad and I went to the building supply store to figure out this Homasote stuff.. well.. it left much to be desired.. First of all they only sold full sheets.. which meant having to buy a board the size of a wall.. Something like 4' by 10', which is entirely too huge.. and the board was 25 dollars or so.. Which didn't much sound like a deal to me once you have to buy all the stuff to make it into a blocking board..

I would have concidered doing it for real if I had knitting friends local to me that would go in on it so they too could have blocking boards and everyone would be happy.

But it was not meant to be..

It just so happened that the night or two before that day someone on KR was posting about blocking boards and how expensive they were and some really nice person mentioned that the manufacturer's website sold them.... cheaper... and they were... On SALE.

..Ooo..

So.. dad let me order it : )

....And he let me order the BIG one..

And it's here..

AND IT'S HUGE!

Now.. when you shop on the internet and you read about measurements and you even take out a tape measure so you can "imagine" and "see" how big something is... that.. usually doesn't work..

Let me tell you.. THIS THING IS FRIGGIN HUGE!

And it's all mine >: )

KAZOOW!


It's so big that I could sleep on it.. (If it wasn't so.. hard.. lol.) and if we became homeless we could use it as a roof.. If it had legs we could eat dinner on it..

And it's really heavy.. which kind of shocked me.

But I think I'm really going to enjoy having it.. I just have to.. er.. find a place to put it.. Unfortunately we don't have an "under the bed" as we have a waterbed.. so.. that's out.. so I'm going to have to get pretty creative..

But I can't possibly tell you how eager I am to get the TCC done so that I can block it.. I'm thrilled that I don't have to try and fight with towels and the carpet and hope that I'm pinning in straight lines.. lol.

I'm even thinking I might want to try lace so I can block it.. LOL.

I.. need help.

...and maybe some more pins.
-Kim-   12:59 AM
 


3 Comments:

Yay, that looks great! A much less work for you too. Sometimes it's just easier buying the ready product instead of building it.

Looking forward to all the lovely lace you will block on it :)
Tina, at 8/04/2006 3:56 AM  
OK, I'm really tempted to get that...I was thinking of doing the "make your own" route too, but 45 bucks seems like a great price. Can I ask you how much they charged to ship it?
lobstah, at 8/04/2006 8:01 AM  
Yay! That will make your blocking a ton easier!
AR, at 8/04/2006 9:21 AM  

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