Tutorial: How to steam block acrylic yarn

Whether you're a knitter or a crocheter, this is bound to be a technique you'll need to know sooner or later in your crafting career! While animal fibers and cotton yarns can be wet blocked, when it comes to acrylic yarn, that just won't cut it. There IS still an option, however, and that is steam blocking! Steam blocking is a super easy way to make your work lay nice and smoothly and make the stitches relax out of initial rigidity. It's a wonderful thing! And it's so easy, literally anyone can learn how to do it!

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[palesabaikakedi]

I know you probably don’t check your comments after this long but thanks for helping me, a whole 8yrs later 😍

[safiyahreyaz]

i love you there is no way on this planet that im gonna buy a steamer

[sue]

In my ignorance of what constitutes Acrylic yarn, I have been ironing my completed projects by placing on the ironing board... then wetting an old tea towel; squeezing out excess water then placing it on top of the item and proceed to iron as usual. Depending on the size of your item, it may be necessary to re-wet the tea towel and reapply it so you can continue ironing until completed. Hope that's a handy hint for people to trial.🤩

[cecilythomas]

You are the cutest and this video has saved me, I was trying to figure out what to do with all this Red Heart Super Saver yarn! Thanks!

[AstrRiskk]

This, , , has saved me. You, , , have saved me (the $20 for a steamer) thank you for giving us quality footage it's very helpful to see a realistic possibility

[random_vision_YT]

How would you go about blocking an acrylic yarn bag? Do i block the bag alltogether or do i block the two pieces and stitch them together?

[Nandini-Gupta-]

Hi! Thank you so much for this. Is there any risk of the work shrinking?

[Santee]

"...it won't do sh*t". Lol! Great video. Good info and u r adorable. And thank you profusely for not adding annoying, loud, totally unnecessary music! Will subscribe.

[jessicapaige]

I only have enough (acrylic) yarn for my project but need to steam block my gauge swatch . That means I need to unravel the swatch once I have measured my rows and stitch count and then proceed with my knitting pattern by reusing that same yarn from my swatch. But how do I get the blocked yarn back to it's original condition so that it will knit up exactly like the rest of my yarn in the skein?

[barbarahanna]

I would like to be able to use something called a Junior Blaster instead of an iron? I would pin the sweater out on a blocking board. What do you think?

[klc]

Wearing a shirt from your haul!!! It looks amazing on you!

[tonyasaxton]

Hey thanks helpful video and fun I wasn't bored to death!

[elenacampilongo]

Molto interessante ma ci vuole la traduzione per tutti i tutorial