Punch Needle - Make a Fern

Spinning a Yarn - Take Part
How to make a Punch Needle Fern with Nina Gronw-Lewis
Wool is amazing.
Not only is it natural, renewable, biodegradable, and sustainable, but it is also an adaptable craft material. This is one of 4 films which will show you how to use different wool crafts to create some of Somerset's rare and endangered species. You can also find worksheets for each wool craft here: spinning-a-yarn.org
Spinning a Yarn is a Somerset Art Works Project project focusing on Wool, with an exhibition, large scale installation and film. Opening in September 2024 at the Somerset Rural Life Museum Glastonbury, with project partners South West Heritage Trust. A programme of events for community outreach, school workshops and talks will also take place. Find out more here: spinning-a-yarn.org
Punch Needle is a hand tufting technique that is traditionally used to make rugs. A punch needle tool has a metal tip with a hole through it and a channel through which the thread or yarn runs.
The other worksheets include; wet felt, needlefelt and applique with stitch.
Ferns: Luscious temperate rainforest once covered a vast area of the British Isles, but now only fragments remain in the west of Britain. Here you will find Oak, Birch, Rowan, Holly, Alder, Willow and Hazel trees, often growing in open glades or alongside rivers. Temperate rainforests are wet, wonderful places. Within them can be found a rich tapestry of life, including ferns, mosses, liverworts and lichen, covering the surfaces of rocks, tree trunks and branches.
0:10 Step One: Materials and tools
0:26 Step Two: Transfer your design and secure the fabric in the hoop
1:29 Step Three: Thread the punch needle
2:24 Step Four: Punch your design into the fabric with your needle
7:33 Step Five: Background
9:15 Step Six: Finish your work
Spinning a Yarn - Take Part Resources created by Lydia Needle and Nina Gronw-Lewis
If you would like your work to be part of an exhibition at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in September as part of Somerset Art Weeks Festival. Please send your completed pieces to ACEarts, Market Place, Somerton, Somerset TA117NB by 31 August 2024. Max dimensions 20cm x 20cm.
DISCLAIMER: Due to the nature of this project, we are unable to return any work after the event. Please note we may not be able to accommodate all the works submitted.