Blocking and Washing Tools
Tools and soap for blocking and washing your knits. Blocking is an essential final step in many knitting projects, giving your stitches a chance to relax and even out, and letting your yarn bloom. And when it’s time to wash and refresh your treasured knits, make sure you use a dedicated wool wash to give them the care they deserve.
Pure oils of Lavandin, Rosemary and Cedarwood, naturally high in camphor, blended to create a fragrant moth repellent.
10ml.
Directions: Sprinkle into wooden drawers, on carpets, or onto bags of Lavandin flowers with stored clothes.
Washing your woollen handmades too often can damage the protective coating of the yarn fibres that hold in moisture and reduce the lifespan of your garment as a result. Extend the time between washes by giving your lovingly crafted woollies a refresh, a reshape and some nurturing nourishment by blocking your knits.
Yarn Food’s specially formulated blocking spray will revive the texture of your carefully knitted or crocheted projects by giving them that nourishing touch for a renewed professional look.
Yarn Food’s hypoallergenic Sensitive Wash detergent with aloe vera is expertly designed for yarn crafters to clean, nourish and preserve yarn fibres naturally without irritating sensitive skin.
Lock in the love that you put into your knitted or crocheted handmades by giving them the care and nourishment they crave. Only the gentlest, most natural, hypoallergenic ingredients are used in this unscented no-rinse soak formula to clean, freshen, and feed your garments.
Yarn Food’s Cotton Wash is expertly designed for yarn crafters to clean, nourish and preserve cotton and plant-based fibres and their blends naturally.
Lock in the love that you put into your handmades by giving them the care and nourishment they crave. Cotton milk to has been added to this natural no-rinse soak formula to feed moisture back into your cotton and plant fibre garments made from linen, bamboo, hemp or other plant-based fibres.
Make your precious pieces stay soft, in shape and last longer.
Yarn Food’s Sock Wash is expertly designed for knitters to effectively clean, nourish and preserve hand-knit socks so that they last you longer.
In addition to the gentle no-rinse formula, it contains added antimicrobial tea tree oil as a natural antidote to bacteria, fungi and odour, while lanolin feeds moisture back into the fibres. This way your socks will stay fresh, fluffy and in shape for longer.
Yarn Food’s Wool Wash detergent is expertly designed for yarn crafters to clean, nourish and preserve wool and animal fibre yarns and their blends naturally.
The natural no-rinse formula contains lanolin to feed moisture back into your woollies and is also suitable for animal fibre garments made from merino, cashmere, mohair, alpaca, angora, camel or other animal-based yarn fibres.
Make your precious pieces stay soft, in shape and last longer.
A handy beechwood comb from Milward’s ‘Green’ range. Useful for removing fluff, lint and pilling from wool and fabric. Use the black side for wool and cashmere, and the gold side for everything else.
Test on old garments beforehand to ensure that the product is suitable for the fabric.
This wool wash bar from Shear Delight is perfect for blocking and hand washing your woollens. Produced in the Lake District, It contains lanolin and Jersey milk to brighten up garments and leave them feeling wonderfully soft. Fragranced with a subtle smell of daisies and fresh pine.
These handy blockers from KnitPro have more than one pin tip, so are ideal for wide width projects and straight edges. Anchor holes in each blocker allow you to attach a string along the longer side, which can be pulled to maintain even tension.
Made of durable plastic, with rust-resistant stainless steel pins. These blockers come in a box containing twelve blockers with eight pins and eight blockers with four pins.
U shaped blocking pins for secure pinning and easy removal. The forked shape means that you can iron smoothly when steam blocking. Rust resistant stainless steel. 40 pins per box.
Strong and sturdy, these t-pins from KnitPro are for use when you’re blocking delicate lace work. They’re made from rust-resistant stainless steel and you use them to pin your project into a foam blocking mat.
The pins are coated in nickel and around 4cm long each. The pack contains 50 pins.
Sock blocker in colour anodised aluminium. Ideal for blocking wet socks so they dry to the perfect shape and size. Light weight, ultra-smooth and beautifully rounded.
The Pony sock blocker comes in four sizes, so it’s really easy to pick out the right one for a snug fit.
Please note these sock blockers are sold individually, not in pairs.
Hand and body soap from our friends at Romney Marsh Wools. Smells absolutely lovely, contains lanolin and is preservative free and not tested on animals.
Ingredients: Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Cocoate, Aqua, Parfum, Coumarin, Linalool, Glycerin, Sodium Chloride, Lanolin, C177891, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate.