{"id":3875,"date":"2010-11-24T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2020-02-21T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T00:26:17","slug":"punchneedle-globe-wip-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-wip-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"punchneedle globe WIP (part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punchneedle Globe menu:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/punchneedle-update\/\">Update 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-wip-part-2\/\">Update 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-wip-part-3\/\">Update 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Update 4 &#8211; <em>you are here<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-wip-part-5\/\">Update 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-revealed\/\">The Finished Globe!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s where we left my punchneedle embroidery globe at <a href=\"\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-wip-part-3\/\">the last update<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/punchneedle_wip4.jpg\" alt=\"punchneedle project - work in progress\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This next stage is the real test of my design: I based my idea on the concept of a papercraft globe I&#8217;d once seen that turns 2D sheets of paper into a 3D globe. So, in theory, I should be able to do the same thing using a 2D embroidery. The moment of truth: I hand-sewed up all the unembroidered darts, to (fingers crossed) convert the flat piece into a hemisphere, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/punchneedle_wip6.jpg\" alt=\"punchneedle project - work in progress\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It worked!<\/strong> I now have one very nice hemisphere. Thanks to that extra-dense punching I did, the seams are pretty much invisible from the outside. You&#8217;ll have to take my word for that, because I&#8217;m going to be a little bit mean and only show you the inside of the hemisphere for now &#8211; I have to save something for the big reveal once I&#8217;ve punched the other half of the globe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of work left to do to get it finished &#8211; the second half should actually take longer than the first: the northern hemisphere has more landmasses, islands, lakes, and general detail that I included in my pattern, so it&#8217;s going to take a lot longer to punch than the (mostly blue) southern hemisphere. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ve found something to make my punchneedle go much more quickly from now on! This is a punchneedle spooler:<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left; padding-right:20px; padding-bottom:12px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/punchneedle_spooler.jpg\" alt=\"punchneedle spooler (image courtesy of The Punchneedle Marketplace)\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>Spooler for Cameo punchneedle (image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.punchneedlemarketplace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Punchneedle Marketplace<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It sits in the top end of the punchneedle. You wind your floss onto the spool and can punch for the entire length of a skein instead of having to rethread the needle every metre or so (the floss can easily get tangled or trapped with a length much longer than that). And, with a 2-step threading process, that&#8217;s a significant time saving &#8211; I think it took me almost as long to thread the needle as it did to use one length of floss!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\">Slight problem though: punchneedle supplies are pretty scarce these days&#8230; I don&#8217;t know of any Canadian suppliers of this attachment, and I knew it would cost a lot in shipping to import one from the Punchneedle Marketplace. So what&#8217;s a crafty girl to do? <strong>Get crafty!<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my homemade punchneedle spooler:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/punchneedle_wip7.jpg\" alt=\"punchneedle project - work in progress\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Prototype punchneedle spooler<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The wire is just heavy floral wire, bent into shape with pliers. It works okay, but I&#8217;d like to get some stiffer wire to replace this, now that I know my concept is sound &#8211; I don&#8217;t think the floral wire will last forever.<\/li>\n<li>The spool is just an empty spool from regular sewing thread.<\/li>\n<li>I used my Dremel with a cutting disc to cut the pointy end off an IKEA pencil (which fits nicely inside the spool).<\/li>\n<li>I hollowed out the graphite from both ends of the pencil with a Dremel drill bit, so that the ends of the wire can slip inside the pencil.<\/li>\n<li>The black rubber bands are mini hair elastics. I found that, without those, the spool clicks back and forth against each end of the wire with each punch, and that noise gets very annoying very quickly!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The spool rotates freely on the pencil, so more floss is fed to the needle every time I make a stitch. Isn&#8217;t it great to be crafty?! It&#8217;s all made with supplies I had on hand, and it works brilliantly!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/punchneedle_wip8.jpg\" alt=\"punchneedle project - work in progress\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Starting the Northern Hemisphere<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks in part to my new spooler, my Northern Hemisphere is coming along much more quickly &#8211; I wonder if I&#8217;ll be able to finish the whole globe over the Christmas holiday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punchneedle Globe menu: Update 1 Update 2 Update 3 Update 4 &#8211; you are here Update 5 The Finished Globe! Here&#8217;s where we left my punchneedle embroidery globe at the last update: This next stage is the real test of my design: I based my idea on the concept of a papercraft globe I&#8217;d once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punchneedle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}