How to do Punch Needle Emboidery
Punch needle embroidery is called so because the tool you use is a punch needle. The needle is comprised of an embroidery needle held on a long hollow body chamber. The chamber rises and falls on the needle when it enters the material, appearing to punch it. Punch needle embroidery is easy to do because you follow a predesigned pattern and the punch needle does all of the stitching work for you. Make sure you get the exact tools listed so you can create your own embroidery project perfectly.
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Things You'll Need
- Weaver's cloth
- Embroidery pattern
- Dark pencil or fine-tipped marker
- Interlocking embroidery hoop
- Punch needle
- Embroidery floss
- Punch needle threader
- Scissors
Instructions
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Place you weaver's cloth over the pattern you want to embroider and trace the design onto the weaver's cloth with a dark pencil or fine-tipped marker.
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Put the inner hoop of an embroidery hoop on a table with the weaver's cloth placed on top of it. The wrong side of the pattern on the cloth should be facing up. For example, if there are words, the words should appear backwards.
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Slip the outer hoop over the weaver's cloth and the inner hoop and tighten it as much as possible. Pull the material down as you tighten the hoop to make sure it is taut.
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Thread the punch needle with embroidery floss. Insert the needle threader through the pointed end of the needle and pass it up through the body of the needle. Slip the embroidery floss into the threader and pull the floss down the body and out through the end of the needle.
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Thread the eye of the needle with the floss running through the body of the needle. The floss should go in the front of the needle and come out of eye to the back of the needle.
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Hold the needle completely upright over the weaver's cloth, so it is perpendicular to the pattern.
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Push the needle all the way into the material and pull it out just until the tip of the needle comes up.
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Punch the needle through the cloth again a needle's width away from where it went in the first time.
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Keep stitching along the pattern lines and filling in any shapes you want.
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Snip the floss at the last point where you pull out the punch needle. You can also trim the length of floss at the starting stitch.
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Tips & Warnings
Use a simple pattern, with mostly straight lines, for your first punch embroidery.
Make sure the front of the needle is always facing forward, toward the direction of the stitches you are about to make and not the stitches that you already made.
