I have finished another bookmark as part of my break from the BAP.  

Photo and commentary here.

So I've placed an order for a lap frame and its on its way to me as I type this. And the first project I'll work on it will be a BAP that I've left aside for a long long time, simply because the size of it alone has made me wonder what madness drove me to attempt it, lol.

The culprit in question is Solstice & Equinox from Heaven & Earth Designs.

Don't you just love the heady airy feeling you get when you start on a new project? I certainly do, and can't wait to see how this one turns out! It'd be my first time trying out a lap frame for this as well, so it's double the excitement!

Time to stop by the LNS today after work to get materials! ^-^v

Someone had asked about punch needling in a seperate post and instead of letting my beautiful photos end up hidden in a comment somewhere, I decided to share my pictures here. Under a cut of course (shown in chronological order)!


ETA: For those of you who are not familiar with punch needling... It is a special tool that looks like a pen but has a hollow needle at the end. You feed the thread through the tool. You work from the back of the fabric and punch loops of thread through the fabric. Kits usually look like a coloring book page on fabric and you fill in the different sections with different colors (like the wedding sampler that I posted above). Or if you freehand you can blend the colors together (like the Georgia O'Keefe piece I posted above).