• Blocking Wires in Action
• A Soak & a Spin
• Protect the Surface!
• S-t-r-e-t-c-h It!
• An Aside
• Back to the Shawl

Protect the Surface!

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For a previous blocking task, Sherri's helpful husband Jeff brought her a large piece of foil-covered insulation board (about one inch thick) to use as a blocking board. We kept the protective table pads in place as we laid the insulation board atop the dining room table. It's much more comfortable to do this procedure at table height when possible; crawling about on the floor was less painful a few years ago!

The next step consisted of inserting the wires into each point of the shawl, taking care to pick up two threads at all times to avoid weakening the stitches. As you can see in the above photos, the wires skimmed through the stitches easily.