The Tree of Life is a beautiful image that has been stitched, painted, tattooed, sketched, scorched, and otherwise recorded for a long, long time. And now, it's been punch needled.
A bunch of friends and I took a class in the spring to learn how to create punch needle projects. It was a great evening filled with laughter, jokes, and just plain fun! We had picked a design for the class a few weeks earlier (the aforementioned Tree of Life), and got down to work with our own selected colours and flare. It's amazing how many ways the same pattern can be interpreted! Punch needle is not a difficult technique - it simply requires the correct tools and materials, a little patience, and a good imagination (you stitch from the back, so if you are writing something, you have to do the mirror image!) - overall I would rate the project as medium in difficulty, most likely because I had never tried this type of project before!
The problem was, however, after that class I had no idea how I was going to finish the project - no idea what I actually wanted it to be! So it sat on my crafting table for months, taunting me... until yesterday when I was cleaning my kitchen (random, I know). I was about to through out a magnet that was on my fridge when I realized that it was not much bigger that the punch needle project. The wheels started spinning, and with a few more rows of thread and a glue gun, I now have a much prettier and craftier magnet on my fridge.
You never know where inspiration will hit!
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