Olikraft Granny Square Blocking Board (9.5 Inch, 50 Pins)

Beautiful and very well made! This board is amazing. I researched a lot before selecting this one and I already know Olikraft as a brand and they are always well made products. What I like most about this board is the spacing of the pegs. Also for me to be able to get four sets on one board is awesome! This is my first time blocking a project and am going to love the results. I got the 15" size and it is so worth it. Plus you get 50 pins for this size. Well done Olikraft! Edit: to add after beginning this process..my littlest hexis are not perfect as I used two different hook brands to make them, both size 5 but some came out a bit bigger. But my point of the edit is to show the spacers I made! Another review had mentioned needing a spacer and I certainly did since some of my hexis were a bit sagging. I searched online and a person could certainly use nylon spacers(from Amazon or the hardware store). But I just cut up straws! Braums pink straws are the best! 3/4 seems to work well. Hope this helps someone!

Love this Blocking Borard. I decided to get this one, because of the excellent reviews it had. It was a lot more expensive than the other brand, but I'm glad I decided to get this one. It's very well made and it's perfect for my mew proyect.

I love the stand. Excellent quality. I have had no issues and have used it to block a lot of crochet items.

I really love this product. The quality of the woodcraft is done really well. I like that it came with a lot of pins too. I like the stand too. Wish there was a place to store the pins. Other than that, it’s been very useful for my blocking of my projects.

There are so many positive things to say about this blocking board, 1 concern and a couple of suggestions. Let's start with the positive: I purchased the 15" board because, as another reviewer said "you can always block smaller pieces on larger boards, but not a large piece on a small board". So very true, and I am able to get 4 blocks of granny squares on this board! I love how sturdy the board feels, the fabric backing on the board itself seems secure and the little stand holds it up quite nicely. The 50 included pins fit perfectly into the holes and they actually feel snug and secure in place while blocking. The predrilled holes were all lined up nice and neat, no weird spacing issues or depth issues. *Now for the concern: there were a couple of spots on the front edge of the board that were a bit rough, so I took some finishing sandpaper and smoothed out those areas so that my yarn wouldn't accidentally get snagged. I had to remove 1 star for this, as it actually could damage someone's work, and this was not on my list of things to do when buying this board.* **...and now the suggestions: -It would be great if there was an option to purchase more blocking pins from the same company so that I know they actually fit well. -Some companies include a little drawer in the blocking board base or some sort of holder for the unused pins and that is always helpful for helping keep everything together between blocking projects. Overall, I am pleased with this purchase and while I would recommend it for all of the positive reasons mentioned above, I would also recommend making sure the wood along the front edge is smooth with no rough areas. If there is, a little "buff" with finishing sand paper does the trick to eliminate that rough spot.

This board is of good quality, and I like the 14" size. If you're going to get a blocking board, I would have no hesitation recommending this one, and I'd suggest getting the largest size you're able to. You can block small squares on a big board, but can't block big squares on a small board. I'd never used a blocking board before this one. Some aspects of using one, though obvious in hindsight, were unexpected. The main issue is that stacking multiple squares on the same set of pins relies on the squares having a pretty good amount of tension to keep them from slipping down the pins. That's actually probably pretty achievable in most cases, but it assumes that your squares are all constructed in pretty much the same way, and that you can adjust the pins to be a larger square if you're not getting enough tension to keep them from sliding. The project that I'm working on is more of a sampler afghan. I've got 32 squares made with 16 different patterns. A lot of the patterns came from the same crochet-along, but I got some patterns from elsewhere or even just found interesting stitches and made blocks with them. The result is that I've got a wide variety of degrees of tension when blocking them into 10" squares. Since they're all so different from each other, some are just barely big enough to block to 10" and others have slack to spare. I can't change the size that I'm blocking them to, because a different size wouldn't work for all of the different patterns. The yarn is 100% wool, and I'm wet blocking them, and their elasticity when wet is substantial. The result is that many of them do not stay taut on the pins. (The set of squares that were on the board when I went to take photos are actually the most "evenly taut" out of the six batches I've done so far, and they still have some sag to them.) I ended up using quilting clips as spacers on several pins, just to try to keep some air flow between the squares. It's not a perfect solution, but it's what I had on hand. What I'd really like is some kind of rigid plastic mesh that I could slide down over the pins between squares to provide support for the squares while maintaining air flow, with proper spacers at the corners to support the mesh. The other issue I've come across is that it's very easy to knock a pin loose while pulling a stitch onto a neighboring pin. It's mostly just an annoyance, and would probably be less of an annoyance with smaller squares, where it would be easier to make sure I was putting the pin back in the right hole when fixing it. The next project I plan to use it with will have 380 squares made with acrylic yarn and 3.5" across. I plan to steam block them on the pins and cross my fingers that the steam won't ruin the board. I am optimistic that since they will all be constructed the same way as each other, and the yarn won't be so elastic, and I'll be able to achieve better tension across the pins. And with 380 squares to block, I'll be very glad that I can fit at least 16 of them on the board at once. UPDATE: My new project has been going quite well. The 3.5" acrylic squares work much better than the 10" wool squares. I have been blocking them with a handheld steamer on its highest setting, for 15 Mississippis per square, with the squares positioned at the very tops of the pins. Then I slide them down and mount another batch of squares at the top. That way I'm keeping the steam as far from the wooden board as possible. It does get condensation on the board, but I haven't noticed any warping or other damage. If I do another project with large squares or more elastic yarn again, I will probably still use the board, but I have purchased some nylon netting (the kind often used for sports gear bags, or exterior pockets on backpacks) and some hardware spacers that I intend to use as support for each layer of squares, for projects that need it. Would be nice if they offered a product that was a more rigid mesh with holes that lined up perfectly with the pin holes. But hopefully my home made version will at least get me halfway to perfect.

If you are on the fence about purchasing the blocking board, jump off and do it!! The board is solid, beautiful, and the perfect size for my needs. The back of the board is also felted so it won't scratch whatever surface you may rest it on. I love the stand it comes with. I won't hesitate purchasing a larger board in the future if I feel I need another one.

The board is very sturdy and the size is perfect for larger projects as well multiple smaller ones. Plenty of pins so that you can block many.

Better than I expected. Now my squares, oblongs etc. are sharp and so much easier to stitch together

La madera está lista los tejidos no se atoran, llega con suficientes postes y de gran tamaño. Tiene un precio alto pero la calidad lo justifica, llegó muy rápido y en óptimas condiciones. Funciona incluso en tejidos de tamaño pequeño, cómo se ve en el vídeo que envié, donde puse la muestra y el tejido terminado donde se aprecia que los cuadros quedaron del mismo tamaño aunque inicialmente no lo estaban. Además cuenta con una base para detener la tabla y sequen los tejidos sin necesidad de recargarlo en algún lugar. Lo recomiendo ampliamente.

Bel objet, de bel facture, réalisé avec des matériaux nobles et qui semble très solide.Par ailleurs, il se révèle très pratique afin de "bloquer" les grannies faits au crochet.Les nombreux trous dont il dispose permettent d'ajuster le bloquage au mieux...Sur le marché, je n'ai pas trouvé mieux !

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Bin begeistert, das Spannbrett ist super. Groß genug für mehrere Teile gleichzeitig und mit den langen Steckstäben kann man auch mal 20 Teile stapeln.