BellaOnline Forums Hobbies and Crafts Crochet Question about blocking

I am relatively new to crochet - well, not really, I have only been making afghans and hats for years but recently been making tops and sweaters, but still on the easy side of crochet. I have been blocking the pieces BEFORE putting them together, but the patterns I've come across say that I should block the sweater after is has been completed. This sounds wrong to me. Does anyone have any opinion on this subject?

if you block one before you would need to block them all but i never do it before always afterwards for it to be true hope that helped hugs merwyn

Hi merwyn Thanks for responding. I guess I wasn't clear. I'm looking for someone to explain to me the advantage of blocking AFTER putting the pieces together (of say a sweater) rather than BEFORE. It just makes sense to block before, when your pieces are flat, cuz after you put them together, they are three-dimentional, and I can't see blocking properly that way. Anyone?