My blocking board is too small
I really wanted to get the Pineapple Square Thingy starched and blocked last night, but it turns out that my blocking board is too small. Oops. Didn’t even think about that.
Out in the garage there’s a big (maybe four feet by four feet) piece of really thick cardboard. The friend who gave us a whole bunch of them used to drive a truck for a living and said something that I didn’t quite get about it being a lining at the back of a truck. Anyway, I plan to use this one as a blocking board, but last night I just didn’t have the wherewithal to go out to the garage, find the cardboard, bring it in, dust it off, cover it with a ton of waxed paper, and then pin down the Pineapple Square Thing.
It was just too hot. Once I got home, apart from running another load of laundry, I couldn’t really bring myself to leave the upstairs where we had the fan and the little window air conditioner running. Soooo hot outside, and downstairs, too. Anytime I left the upstairs I started to feel like I was wilting.
But I did find the mistake in the Prairie Star. I had to frog eight and a half rounds. I’d just finished round 24 when I noticed there was a problem. The mistake was in the middle of round 16. I had a gigantic pile of thread Ramen when I was done with that.
I got back on the horse, though, and I’m back up to round 23 now.
