How to block embroidery

Janet M. Davies of JMD Designs had some great advice for freeing your needlework of wrinkles. She says,

I do not mean wrinkles that may happen because your tension was too tight or you did not use a hoop while stitching; but the natural wrinkling of linen and cotton fabric after washing/drying…[In] the Whitework owl the stitching is stitched with a thick thread. Just flat ironing would squash the French Knots and other Knotted stitches…So I ‘block’ the fabric while it is drying to produce a wrinkle free background. Also it allows the fabric to dry so the weave of the fabric is straight, which is needed if putting the needlework in a picture frame.

See Janet’s post for complete directions.