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Punch Needle Embroidery
Geez, as if I don't have enough to do........but using a Russian punch
needle is a technique I've been wanting to try for many years and finally after seeing finished samples here and there and talking to my fellow designer friend Pam Kellogg who has been "playing" with her set of needles, I purchased a set of these punch needles. My set came from a company known as the original Russian Punch Needle company that spells the name as IGOLOCHKOY. I got the whole set of three needles for $45.99....well made with sturdy brass handles with a five year guarantee. Each needle handles different number of floss "strands" or weight of threads. There's a single strand needle, a three strand needle and a six strand needle......can be used with other threads besides floss. The punch needle technique makes a nice plushy looped or tufted surface stitch, you work from the back of the embroidery......designs for this technique will often come reversed.......some patterns are iron-ons you can apply to the backside to follow the embroidery so it looks perfect on the top or front of the fabric afterwards. It's a great technique to be able to vary the surface textures on the artsy applique collage ideas I like experimenting with. The craft of old fashioned hooked rugs come to mind comparing punch needle technique to the finished dense tufted surface of the rugs as well as the similar folk art "primtive" style of the patterns available at The Stitching Post in MD where the country style is popular and where I purchased the needle set. Naturally, the Wooly Dreams sheep mascots, are natural candidates for punch needle tufts as well as many other animals. Just about any subject, motifs can be used for punch needle techniques. Then, there are hairstyles! Unusual hairstyles perfect for those over the top characters, the ladies with attitudes, ha, even Queenie's royal flyaway hair can be tamed with a punch.....needle that is.....the options for punch needle are endless! Even better, the punch needle works fast to cover the design surface and uses floss by the "pound".......in my case, the punch needle will use up some of the "extra" floss lying around here.......we used to do kits of my charts for catalogs such as the old Stitchery catalog and ended up with quite a few cones of DMC floss. Overall, I'm looking forward to experimenting with the punch needle using a combination of other embroidery techniques, different textured threads, yarns and embellishments hoping to give all my projects that "unique" look whether used on clothing or in decorative design. --- Lula http://www.woolydream.com Needlework Adventures |
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