Blocking: Needlework and crochet

I managed to set two of my pieces up for blocking today – an odd-shaped afghan and a piece of needlework/tapestry that I started about seven years ago. (Blocking is the act  shaping your work once it’s been washed and is part of “finishing”). In the case of my tapestry piece, years of working on this canvas and transporting it around left it a bit skewed – so blocking was really essential to getting it back into shape. With the afghan, I’m not sure it’s so important because it’s just a lap-quilt anyhow, and it turned out to be a bit of a hot mess of pattern problems (which I won’t go into here).