Halloween Witches Hat – Embroidery Pattern: I love finding new ways to use my KNK digital cutting systems! (Lynn C. – I thought of you the whole time I was making this!)
My mom was visiting recently and we spent a day shopping and eating in Le Claire, IA – home of Antique Archaeology, otherwise known as American Pickers. Mom and I spent a couple of hours in the local shops, as well as a couple of dollars! Since retiring from 35 years of teaching she’s picked up Quilting and spends hours and hours every week on her new, and beloved, hobby. While we were shopping I found a needle punch embroidery project and thought it might be something I could do while traveling because its pretty compact. Some day when I have more time, I’d love to learn how to embroider – Team KNK Designer, Judy, creates such fabulous things with embroidery!
Crafting is currently a challenge! I am in between houses, and traveling back and forth between Illinois and Michigan every other weekend. Because of that, I have carved out a little corner of mom’s family room to do my crafts. Thank goodness she’s okay with this – I can’t go too long without my KNKs!
And……back to the project. Finished needle punch items can be added to quilts, pillows, or books as an accent, or they can be used in many other craft projects. The thread is colorfast, so they can even be used as coasters!
I purchased a couple of yards of the weaver’s cloth, and some nice fall color threads to make other projects. I made the Halloween Witches Hat with a dark purple thread, the spider with black, the bittersweet with olive thread and red thread, and the star and moon with a harvest gold thread. The background is a thread that is variegated in off whites.
Materials:
- KNK Maxx Air digital cutting system
- Pen Tool with ink cartridge
- Weaver’s Cloth
- A sticky Mat
- Brayer
Settings:
- Speed: 200
- Force: 80
- Passes: 1-2
Method:
- I used the brayer to adhere the fabric to the mat and to remove all of the fold lines. My material was a little wider than the mat, but by only using the center 3 pinch wheels it had no effect on the task.
- I used a ball point pen, simply because my fabric pens are all packed and traveling on a truck somewhere. It worked just fine!
I only used a single pass on the Moon and Star – since there isn’t a lot of detail I figured it wouldn’t make much difference. The weaver’s cloth accepted the ink very well.
- Next, I use the needle punch to craft the Halloween Witches hat design.
I can’t wait to ‘draw’ my next needle punch design with one of my KNKs! I am going to use this method to make Christmas patterned designs for everyone in my family. If nothing else, it will be a great way to spend my time in the car!
Wow! What a great project!
Thank you! My mom is already giving me requests – lol!
Aren’t you the clever one!!?? Great project. Thanks for sharing.
Well aren’t you clever! I love how people come up with ideas like this, our KNK’s really can do anything!
The list of what can be done with the KNK just keeps growing.
Thank you. When I have my own room again, I will use other ink colors to help me with my thread colors for the layout.
How cute! The ink pen worked great on that fabric.
Very cool, Michele! I’ve never tried needle punch but it’s tempting now that I can involve my KNK in the process!
Great idea. I can see how this would come in handy for other projects.
I know what you mean about traveling and being unable to stop crafting! I am out of town on an extended trip, but still making lots of photo albums. I am lost without my cutter, however, and a scoring board. But I found that a new blade in my craft knife helped a lot!
Yes! How can we be expected to relax without a regular dose of crafting?
Cute!
Love your project!
Wow thanks for sharing, this will be great for cards, and less boring to do!
What a clever way to use the digital cutting machine. There are so many great designs out there.
People I work with don’t get it. Of course, some of them are wound pretty tight.
love your techinque
Awesome Michele…very creative use of our cutter resources!
I agree crafting is a good outlet. Some of the people I work with just don’t understand, crafting or relaxing.
It is so cool that you can do something on the KNK and still take it to work on in the car.
Thank you. One of my main drivers is being economical, so creating my own patterns really fits the need. Also, my daughter wants to do this (graduating up from hook-rugs, lol) and the designs she would choose simply aren’t made by anyone in the industry yet.
That is an AWESOME idea.
Hi, it was great to see your needlepunch. I do quite a bit of it myself, and do my own designs. I’d like to pass on another way to get your image transferred to fabric for this, and perhaps you’ll give it a try next time to see if it works for you.
I iron my fabric onto freezer paper, and then run it through the color printer. I have a printer that uses ink (an Epson Photo Printer). This presupposes that your fabric can fit on a pre-cut 81/2 inch by 11 piece of freezer paper.
In this way, my design can print out, color and all, right onto the cloth. After it goes through the printer, peel it from the freezer paper and iron it, and you are good to go.