It’s new for us, anyway!

I came across these “stitched card” patterns online that are a subtype of string art, in my view, and while looking at the designs my first thought was, I want to do that on wood! But having never done it before and wanting to scale up the designs I asked Cameron to cut out the cat file on cardstock. I should mention that this craft is usually done with an awl or some other pricking/ puncturing device by using a printed copy of the downloaded file, so if anyone wants to try this without a laser it can certainly be done.

In addition, I thought I’d like to try it with everything from chunky yarn to crochet thread, as well as yarn I make myself on my serger. Check it out.

I thought the plain birch with the white cat was too blah, so I used flat watercolors to “batik” the wood, then brushed it with a light patina of an iridescent watercolor paint, then used chopped up batik fabrics to create a dimensional/textural border. In this photo the chopped fabrics are not yet glued into place.

Sometimes you don’t have the color or size/width of yarn you want for a project but, when you have as much thread as I have it’s easy to make exactly what you want, which is what I did here.

Stay tuned for more; I love using the laser to mesh modalities!

I hope everyone had a fun weekend-go make something cool this week!

Dana