{"id":4088,"date":"2010-12-29T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2011-02-24T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:52:52","slug":"punchneedle-globe-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/punchneedle-globe-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"punchneedle globe revealed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, this post has been a long time coming… (Previous update posts are here: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I’m not quite sure when I embarked on this project as I didn’t keep any notes; all I know for sure is that my Illustrator design file was last modified in December 2009, so it’s taken over a year to take this project from a 2D pattern to a 3D completed piece. But here, finally, it is: the Punchneedle Embroidery Globe! Click the pic for the larger version:<\/p>\n

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\nHey – it’s PlanetJune<\/strong> personified! Maybe this should be my logo \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you to my orangutan<\/a> for posing with the globe for these photos \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Stitching the two halves together was quite a challenge. I used a curved upholstery needle but it was still really tricky. When I’d stitched 11 of the 12 segments together, I started stuffing. And stuffing, and stuffing, and then stuffing some more. In the end it took about half a standard bag of fiberfill to keep the globe in shape. And I was very glad to have my Detail Stuffing Tool<\/a> for the final stuffing additions as I stitched the opening closed. <\/p>\n

But finally, it was finished! Here are some more views (again, click for the larger version):<\/p>\n

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\nAsia and Australia, Europe and Africa, N and S America…<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see from the above pictures that my globe isn’t a perfect sphere – it looks slightly narrower in the middle picture than in the 2 outer pics. There’s a reason for that: although I did account for the fact that my base fabric (weaver’s cloth) has stretch in only one direction, which changes the aspect ratio of the finished piece, I didn’t realise that by punching so much more densely than usual, I’d change the amount of stretch significantly, so I didn’t distort my pattern enough to compensate for that before I transferred it to my fabric. My finished globe has a circumference of 18″ at the widest point and 17″ at the narrowest. Not perfect, but considering I had no idea if my idea of a 3D punchneedled piece would even work at all, I can live with it.<\/p>\n

I’m a geek…<\/h2>\n

I decided to put on my science geek hat and come up with some estimates of how many stitches went into this project. I came up with two methods for the estimation; both are very rough, but taken together they at least give us some idea.<\/p>\n

Method 1: floss length.<\/strong> I counted how many stitches I made with a known length of floss. I kept track of how many skeins of floss I used (28) and the length of each skein, to extrapolate the number of stitches in the whole globe. Result: 55,000 stitches.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Method 2: surface area.<\/strong> I counted how many stitches I’d made in a typical square centimetre on the back of the embroidery, and then used the average circumference of the finished globe to calculate its radius (C=2πr), subtract the stitch loop length (to give the size of the backing fabric) and then its surface area (SA=4πr²). Result: 63,000 stitches.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So I feel fairly confident in saying that there’s somewhere in the region of 60,000 stitches in my globe – and even at punchneedle speed, that’s a lot<\/strong> of stitches!<\/p>\n

2011 is almost here<\/h2>\n

The coming year is going to bring some big changes for me (and Dave and Maui). I still can’t really get my head around this idea of moving, especially to the southern hemisphere – what a change that’ll be! But now, at least I have a way to visualize it:<\/p>\n

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\nCanada to Cape Town… it’s even further away than I’d realised!<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanks for accompanying me on my journey to complete this globe! I hope you like the result. It’s funny that I had no idea how relevant it would be to me when I embarked on this project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, this post has been a long time coming… (Previous update posts are here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.) I’m not quite sure when I embarked on this project as I didn’t keep any notes; all I know for sure is that my Illustrator design file was last modified in December 2009, so it’s taken […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4088","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\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}