Good morning! So last week I showed you the beginnings of my attempt at punch needle.
It turns out that watching back to back episodes of Silent Witness is conductive to punch needle. Because I finished it. It's not the greatest punch needle in the world, but nor is it the worst (probably, I can't actually admit to having seen worse versions, I'm just hoping they're out there).
The red inner border isn't very pronounced, despite me sitting and teasing out loads of loops. There were long loops, which I cut, and there were loops in the wrong place. I just pushed those to the side and hoped for the best.
It's such a nice texture. It sort of feels like a rug. Mr CA announced that his sister used to do this when she was young. I was doubtful. After a long discussion it turned out he was talking about puff paint (?!?). The finished design is about 5" high and I intend to sew it into a little zippy bag to store my punch needle tool, needles and threaders in.
I still don't understand the science of how this works, and I don't trust that it won't all just pull out if I catch a loop on the front. So I covered the back in beading glue. This is the back by the way!
I enjoyed this. I'm going to do it again... There's a punch needle in Some Kind of Wonderful by Anni Downs which I might recently have accidentally bought. I mean WON! Sorry, won. I did win it Mr CA, you know I haven't bought ANY craft supplies/books/magazines for years, I'm just very lucky... I'm off now to hide the large rabbit scraper foil kit I bought won on Saturday (Wilkos, £3 if you're in the UK and interested).
Morning ladies. No finishes today, just a little bit of progress on an old project and a new one. First up is the dancers cross stitch. I went into my photo albums to find the last update I did, I couldn't find a picture anywhere! This means you, nor I, can really see if there IS any progress, but at least I'll have a record for next time!
I had stitched quite a bit of area around the hands and the ladies head. When I came back to this project a few weeks ago, I discovered that a lot of the background was wrong! So frustrating. Out it came. There is some more that is possibly wrong, but I've left it for the minute. I thought that stitching the uninteresting bit first - the background - would help me move this along quicker. Yeah, that didn't work!
Since the last update, I've done all the bright blue you can see and the lady's upheld arm. This is WIP #9.
I've also started something new. WIP #24 is a punch needle kit I bought at a craft fair sometime last year. This craft was new to me, something I'd never seen before and I thought it looked easy, in principle it is, in reality it so isn't!
The blue thing has a slotted needle in it, the thread goes down the shaft and out of the needle and then is threaded through a hole in the needle. You can set the tool to produce different sizes of loops, most of this is done in 1 and 2, the smallest loops you can get.
You work from the back, in and out of the fabric, close together and this is what it produces on the front! I love the effect. This is by no means perfect, or even well done, but it's clearly a craft that needs practice and who says everything I produce has to be perfect? Hopefully noone or I've let them down repeatedly! I've got a long way to go, so there's a lot of time to perfect my loops!
