WIPW - In the Post

For this week's Work In Progress Wednesday report I can show three finishes and some purple progress.

Crazy for Crazy
I dug into my purple thread stash to add the following.

Punch Needle Greeting Card

I completed the punch needle design. This is the front.

 On the back the stitches are flatter.

To secure the stitches before cutting the loops open, I spread a thin layer of glue on the back.

 I then started cropping the loops into 'velvety' pile.
The easiest way is to fold the fabric over a finger to see where to cut.

The cut pile makes a deeper, darker shade of each thread.

Compare the uncut left side with the cut area on the the right.

Finally I made it into a card.

It's a rather gloomy card with the black background.
Lesson learned!

The second

Greeting Card

was sewn in the style of Karin Derland.

Instead of the boiled wool foundation I used felt from my stash.

The third

Greeting Card

project is completed, but I won't show any clear details yet. Here is a fuzzy teaser.

All three cards are now in the post.

Leafy Note

At the quilt show last month I was given a beautiful hand-bound notebook with a delicate leaf on the cover.
I decided to use the book to note down my needlework finishes 2019.

I am happy to add a number of new drawings for this WIPW report.