I can’t believe I’m actually done…well, there are some touchups needed with a marker, buuuut basically I’m done, heh.
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Wow! That looks great. How big is it? And ho long did it take you?
22 inches x 26 inches
Way, way, way, waaaaaay too long, heh. It took me at least a week to two weeks just to feel comfortable with drawing the form (as I didn’t want to paint the background, so as you can guess by it being painted that I still didn’t do too well, 
). As for punching, though I spent a lot of time not doing it, but I’d wager the actual punching took…Oh, something like 24 hours or less to do. Maybe even a lot less.
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Turned out wonderful! You are really mastering the details! This is my favorite one so far…and what a great gift…you made it on time as well!
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Cool!
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Congratulations on completing this! This is such a unique and thoughtful gift. Based on your progress in the ‘what are you working on’ thread, it seems like you managed to finish this pretty quickly!
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Even though it was poorly implemented, I really like mixing painting with the punch needle. I really need to think of something to do more akin to the landscapes I’ve done. But that will be something for further down the road. I need to focus on some other things I’ve put off for quite a while.
My many years of working in construction, procrastinate til the very end, then it’s the “Flight of the Bumblebee”, .
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It came out soo cool! It’s much bigger than I thought from your progress pics!
Very cool!
Congratulations! This stellar project is featured this week!
This is cool! Harley Quinn is a really interesting character!
I’ve been curious about punch needle crafts. Was it fairly straightforward to get the hang of it?
Hmm! There was a little learning curve. Trying different things til I found something that works. Also, the type of needles definitely matter (cheap vs. pricier, and/or adjustable vs. nonadjustable). Also, at least for me, figuring out the best fabric to use (and I still do not have a good grasp of the fabrics, ).
When punching from the front of the work, using the right needle and fabric makes things far easier. Punching from the back, however, is far far far more forgiving.
As for needles, I find Lavor’s the best, second is an adjustable one made by Artiste (the downsides to this one are the needles are easily damaged when dropped. It’s difficult to maneuver around the edges of the frames, and the sharp pointed needles make it jump when moving to the next position).
So far I’ve only tried smaller needles, as the larger one is just a tad too big for most of the yarns we have around here.
I lost my train of though quite a while ago, 
. Hopefully that…erm…was on topic enough, heh.
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it was on topic. 
That sounds a bit daunting.
I loved watching your progress as you created this from scratch. It turned out just wonderful! 