{"id":1099,"date":"2008-07-05T00:06:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.52.55.152\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2008-07-05T00:10:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T04:10:57","slug":"im-dumb-when-im-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/?p=1099","title":{"rendered":"I’m Dumb When I’m Tired"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mean, really, why else didn’t I think to check the punchneedle packaging for threading instructions? Duh! \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

So, I did a bit of punchneedling today. First, I checked the make sure I had needle threading instructions, then I placed an order with The Silver Needle for 4 different punchneedle patterns. Some come with the pattern already printed on cloth, some of them are just the pattern. Good thing I already have some weavers cloth, so I didn’t need any of that for the patterns that are coming. <\/p>\n

With that settled, I went stash diving, looking for something to punch. \ud83d\ude09 What I came up with was the first (and only) design that I needle punched – Star of Wonder by Homespun Elegance. While it was originally a pattern printed directly on cloth, which I already used, there was a diagram to show which colors to use in which areas that I was able to use as a pattern. Here’s the final result:
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I think it looks better than my first attempt:
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Not knowing what I was doing the first time around, I used two different sizes of needles (1-strand and 3-strand) for the design, which cause portions of the design to be at two different depths and thicknesses, which didn’t turn out as well. I think that this time, you can actually tell that it’s a sheep on the hillside (or at least some sort of animal).<\/p>\n

So, there you go. The most interesting part of my day today. I’ll leave you with photos of what I bought for future projects:
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I mean, really, why else didn’t I think to check the punchneedle packaging for threading instructions? Duh! \ud83d\ude06 So, I did a bit of punchneedling today. First, I checked the make sure I had needle threading instructions, then I placed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}