After  I finished knitting my Sapphire Stack of Owls scarf, I quickly had to order some blocking wires.  I opted for the Blockit Plus Kit which has double the wires of the Blockit Kit because I had a 50%-off coupon.

Here's the wet scarf laying on my blocking mats.

Close up of the curly scarf.  Because the body of the scarf is stockinette (and lace holes), the edges curl in.  There is a 3-stitch garter stitch border, but it doesn't do much to combat the curl.

Let me tell you, it's not easy to weave 3-foot-long ridgid wires into wet knitting.  Especially when you're sitting hunched over on a HARD floor and your body is creaky.  Ha!  Getting the scarf all wired and pinned to the blocking mat took an hour.

The garter stitch edge helped guide my wire weaving, and I wove under and over each row.  The scarf was so long that I ended up needing to use 3 wires on each side (the wires overlapped ... the thing wasn't 9' long ... ha!).

Here is a shot of all 6 wires woven into the edges of the scarf.

Here the pinning has begun.  Oh!  And at either edge, I've woven a short aluminum tube.  I bought them for a completely different project, but they were perfect for this.  Thank goodness I didn't need to use the 3-foot-long wires for the ends, because I know I would have tripped over them.

Starting at one end and working my way across, I measured out 7 inches and pinned the wires into place.

I also poked each owl in both eyes and wiggled my finger around to get big, wide eye holes.  Here you can see the difference between the poked and unpoked eyes.  I got some impish pleasure from the poking.

All pinned up!

I'm getting the photos for the final post ready.  Let me know if you have any questions I can answer for you in that post.