If nothing else this technique can help with any stored up aggression and stress. Knitting really is therapeutic. Thanks for the tip.

Common in the ukraine, we use a spurtle shaped spoon

This is kind of like "thwacking" handspun yarn. After you soak your finished yarn and have removed as much water as possible by whatever is your preferred method, you swing it around and hit some sort of surface (I usually use a chair) with it like its a whip. JillianEve has an episode about it.

I love the tip for flattening out the project. It is awesome and I will be using it on a hat this evening. I can't, however, watch the video without laughing. My mother had a wooden spoon that she'd threaten to spank us with if we were being bad. As far as I can remember none of us ever got spanked with it but we sure thought she would - and we'd clean up our act really quickly!

I have a baby hat with stranded colorwork on a peanut butter jar after washing. I just tried this on it. Wow! It really does look better. Thank you!!!!!

Knitting and hitting, what´s not to like, thank you!

Steam and a pounding block or clapper is used in tailoring garments. Perhaps this is where this technique came from

I usually do all my wet blocking by pounding with my hands to even out the fabric. Never tried inside out though, which I think might help to get a more regular thickness especially on colorwork sections. I will try it for sure. Thanks for all your videos on colorwork and the others as well. Great job and very interesting!

Wow! That little trick with a wooden spoon made a big difference to the smoothness of the color work. Thank you for this new trick!

Thankyou Roxanne for this and all your wonderful videos. (Note to self; resist the urge to multi-task ie blocking while cooking - results decidely messy if employing same spoon to stir vege soup as to thwack the woollen fabric).

I can’t wait to do this with my next colourwork project, I imagine my children will want to join in!

Awesome tip! Thanks! I can't wait to start smacking my stranded knitting projects. Nice perk. LOL

I have also seen the use of a rolling pin. Helps!

This is quite a good trick, I would love to do that when I feel mad about politics or other ... ;-) I bet you my stranded work would be quite smooth.

I just finished a sweater with a color work yoke. Good thing I put off washing it yesterday! I’ll be getting out my wooden spoon today!🥰

I wish I had seen this two days ago before I had to block a stranded colorwork sweater!

Very interesting! I will try to apply this method for the next pair of my socks. Thank you for your tips!

Simple and quite logical! Thanks for showing this.

Great tip Roxanne. Your stocking is lovely! I watched Casual Friday where you showed the different ones. Thanks again!

So happy to see your finished stocking! It's beautiful!