My first thoughts for ‘Wild and
Beautiful’ were a landscape of the moors or perhaps a wild flower but whilst
waiting to pick up my grandson from school I saw a beautiful, small bent pine
tree. I sketched it and decided that it was beautiful and I have put it in a
wild setting.
I decide to use the punch needle I
bought at Reeth which I had not used. I began on a
piece of Hessian but it was unsuccessful so I used some Monk’s cloth. As I was
working from the back of the fabric I had to reverse my
design.
I found the punch needle difficult
to use but persevered. I did the green grassed area first, then the tree and
finally the sky. I used rug wool in a mixture of shades for both the sky and the
grass areas.
I then made the pine needles from
wool, fixing them into place with a bead and used small blue flower-shaped beads
on the right-hand side under the tree and orange wool for the flowers on the
left. The finished piece is 8” in diameter but I felt it needed a border which
is card with wool wrapped around it.
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