Tapestry Blocking

Blocking is the name for straightening out a tapestry. I have never tried this before so it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Step 1. Dampen down the tapestry - Valerie is horrified that I just ran it under some warm water coming from the kitchen tap! I then dried off the excess carefully.
Step 2. Lay out a right angle on a board.
Step 3. Pin two sides to the right angle.
Step 4. Slowly tease - pull - the tapestry into shape and pin it as square as it will go.
Step 5. Repeat at daily intervals until it is in the right shape.

I am using some cable staples to pin this down because they how the material fine but have a loop to get hold of when you want to pull them out.

As you can see, it is already much straighter than it was. I think it will need another go on Sunday and it should be Ok then to start putting the cosy together.