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[Intro music]

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Hello and welcome back to my channel!

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My name’s Annika, and today I’m going[br]to be reviewing something that a lot of you

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have asked me to review… this so called[br]magic embroidery pen.

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Now it has been touted as a way to make embroidery[br]easier, more accessible, faster, more exciting…

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But I’m a little bit skeptical of whether[br]it actually works, because I’ve been burned

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before…

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ARGGHH ALL OF THIS JUST CAME OUT EUGH!

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So before you go out and buy one for yourself,[br]let’s see if it… can do the thing.

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So I ordered one, from the internet – this[br]seems to be the same one that is being sold

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everywhere, under sometimes different brand[br]names, sometimes it’s called ‘WarmCrochet’

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but there’s a lot of like, generic versions[br]around.

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Ok, so, this is the package that I received.

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I’m gonna open it up here…

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Ok good!

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That’s a good start, we have instructions….

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Oh, instructions that fall apart, but instructions[br]none the less!

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Don’t worry guys, it says that it IS a ‘quality[br]product’!

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Needle punching is.. easy to start and impossible[br]to stop!

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Am I going to be stuck doing this forever?

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First we have to thread the main needle.

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Ok so this one is the main needle…

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I don’t wanna waste really nice embroidery[br]thread on my first attempt, so..

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I’m going to find a not so nice colour.

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Ok so to thread this we will need the needle[br]threader, and the punch needle.

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So first we put the threader in through the[br]punch needle itself…

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Oh!

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Pops out the top there..

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Then we insert the thread slash yarn..

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I’m going to use 6 strands here but I don’t[br]know what weight of thread I’m supposed

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to be using.. ok, then pull the threader back[br]through…

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Oh!

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And there it goes… and then we use this[br]again to pull it through the little eye of

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the embroidery needle.

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So that goes through the little hole in the[br]needle, and then we pull it back through…and

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is that it?

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THAT’S IT!

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That wasn’t too hard!

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I’m surprised!

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Now the real test… will it work?

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So I’ve got some cotton fabric here, to[br]try it out on – I’m just going to pop

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that onto an embroidery hoop so that the fabric[br]is nice and… tense?

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Is that the right word?

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Taut?

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Ok, so my fabric is just a standard, cotton[br]fabric, and it’s in the embroidery hoop,

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nice and taut…

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So now, apparently, we just punch this through…[br]what happens to this little… this long bit

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of thread?

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Doesn’t say what we do with this little[br]stringy bit but we will figure that out later,

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lets see if it even does anything first.

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I’m really excited!

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Huh.

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Nope.

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Nope.

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Nope… still.. nope..

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aww!

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Well THAT didn’t work!

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C’mon…[br][laughs]

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Eugh, not again!

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This is the handheld sewing machine all over[br]again.

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Why won’t you go in?

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Go INTO the fabric!

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IN!

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Ok so I think the problem here is the needle[br]is way too big for this fabric, and I’m

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literally…

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It’s just poking gigantic holes thought[br]the fabric.. which, I mean, IS THERAPUTIC…

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But it’s not what its supposed to be doing…

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But for now I’m going to try this on a different[br]fabric, I’m going to try this on denim.

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Maybe it will work with that.

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Alright leeets try this again…oh hang on!

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It almost stayed in...[br][laughs]

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C’monnnn C’MONNNNNN[br][weeps in frustration]

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Ok this might help, there’s a little dial[br]on the side, not sure what it does because

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it’s literally just called, screw, in the[br]instructions….

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Let’s turn it up all the way to 11… ah[br]it makes the needle longer, ok that might

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help, let’s just make it as long as possible…[br]then it might actually stay in the fabric?

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I dunno, I’m totally guessing here…

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OKAY!

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[gasps]

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OHHHH!

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It’s staying the fabric!!!

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YUSS[br]I guess I’ll just do a straight line here…boop

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de doop ba boop…

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I guess I’m doing a little S?

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Ok, we’ve made an S.[br]Oh no!

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Oh NO!

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What?

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So… ok…

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yeah this is my concern with this…

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The thread came out WAY too easily, there’s[br]nothing to anchor it to the back, of the piece

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of fabric so...

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I’m not entirely sure how that’s supposed[br]to work.

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And it says you can apply it to pretty much[br]anything, any kind of cloth… look at the

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examples they’ve given, I mean, there’s[br]a warning sign right there…like if THAT

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is the best examples they can give?

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Ok so this kit came with three different size[br]needles, this is the one that was originally

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in it, which is GIGANTIC compared to this[br]smaller one.

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So if I put the little small one…

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hopefully, it might work better?

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I’ve been filming for… 42 minutes.

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Ok, lets see if this works.

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[mumbles of frustration][br]Oh man, now it’s just not holding… why

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aren’t you holding in?

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Now it just doesn’t want to stay in the[br]fabric!

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What happened?

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What happened to make you not want to stay[br]in the fabric, thread?

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It’s like, chasing me around…

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WHAT’S YA DEAL?!

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WHY?

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I don’t understand!

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… I’m done.

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[Door slams]

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Ok instructions, I’ve lost all faith in

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you, I am turning to YouTube, to see if anyone[br]else has figured these things out…

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[typing noise]

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How. To.

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Use.

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An.

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Embroidery.

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pen.

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[YouTube clip music starts]

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Well, well, well, well.

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Hello.

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I am back.

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And boy, have I learned a LOT.

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First, let’s talk about what this thing[br]is NOT.

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It’s not a revolutionary new tool.

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It’s not a magic embroidery pen.

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It’s not even supposed to be used for the[br]type of embroidery that it’s largely been

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marketed for.

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Nope, this tool is more accurately called[br]a Punch Needle, and it is used for a very

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specific craft called Punch Needle Embroidery.

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Yet, it has been completely mis-marketed as[br]something else.

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So – firstly, what is Punch Needle Embroidery?

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Well, it is a different thing to standard[br]hand embroidery, the type that’s just done

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with needle and thread, the type that you[br]would have seen me do on my channel many times

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before.

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And Punch Needle Embroidery is a legit craft.

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In fact, it is a very old-school craft, like[br]its been around for hundreds, if not thousands

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of years.

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What is does is it creates these three-dimensional,[br]rug-like textures, made up of lots of tiny

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little loops, either using yarn or thick embroidery[br]floss.

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And the fabric used for it needs to be a very[br]specific type of fabric, called “Weaver’s

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Cloth”, which is very closely woven, and[br]is pulled very TAUT over something like a

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frame or hoop, and when the fabric is taken[br]off the thing that’s stretching it out,

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the weave of the fabric kinda springs back[br]and holds all of the threads tightly in place.

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So that’s why there’s no need to tie any[br]knots or loops to fix the threads in place,

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because they do if you use the right fabric,[br]stay in there.

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So the instructions that came with this pen,[br]saying that it can be used on “any kind

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of cloth” – well, it actually says ‘can[br]be applied to almost of clothing’ … I

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assume that means they’re saying apply it[br]to any kind of fabric… well, that’s just

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plain wrong.

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So this type of embroidery can’t really[br]be used on things like clothes, or bags…

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anything that’s really going to have a lot[br]of wear and tear or need washing.

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It’s mainly used for decorative wall hangings,[br]or pretty display pillows, or it’s used

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in larger sizes with bigger, but similar tools[br]to make things like rugs.

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So, after I’d done a BUNCH of research and[br]learned what this pen is ACTUALLY for – I

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gave Punch Needle Embroidery a go, which requires[br]a whole new set of skills!

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So I thought that I would punch needle a little[br]house.

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Simple shapes, a couple of different colours[br]– let’s see how it turns out!

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So I tried to use a fabric that is closer[br]to weaver’s cloth – I didn’t have any

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of the specific fabric but I used a non-stretchy[br]denim this time, with quite a close weave,

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and I also used the thinnest needle and it[br]seemed to hold the stitches in ooookay.

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And to do actual Punch Needle embroidery,[br]I threaded the pen like I did before, but

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the side that we’re going to be punching[br]into here, is actually going to be the BACK

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side of the project.

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The other side is going to be the nice side,[br]the side that goes on display, and that’s

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the side where the thread becomes all LOOPY.

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Those loops are something we actually want,[br]and we can, apparently, adjust the length

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of the loops by moving this dial on the side[br]of the pen up and down.

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And to create those loops, you punch through[br]the back-side like this, making each new “punch”

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just next to the last one, and what I saw[br]on other tutorials was that people generally

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would outline their shape first, and then[br]fill it in by working their way inwards either

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in spirals or in rows, until they’d filled[br]up the whole shape.

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And a good thing that I have to say about[br]punch-needles – well, they are faster than

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standard hand embroidery, even if the results[br]are nowhere close to being the same thing.

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So, I wanted to try a couple of different[br]colours of thread on this house… doop de

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doop do doo, just giving it a front path as[br]well… for some reason I decided to make

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the loops super long on the path and it made[br]the path really look like… spaghetti.

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Yeah.

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So, the general idea is that you leave all[br]the threads loose at the back – you don’t

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need to knot or tie them at all because the[br]fabric weave should hold it all in place.

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And then, the front side should look something[br]like this.

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But like… better than this because this…[br]doesn’t look so great.

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But hey – it was my first attempt, alright?!

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And I mean, you can at least tell it’s a[br]house – right?

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Luci: It’s…ah… clearly a… is it a[br]person with a hat?

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Luci: Give me some clue?

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Annika: [laughs][br]Luci: Is this a person’s face and just some

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kind of little… hat?

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And that’s their eye and their ear?

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Annika: Don’t you like it?

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It’s an artwork I made for the house!

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Luci: Its… really… great!

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Annika: Ok don’t look at that side…

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Luci: Yup, it’s a good… ahh… it’s[br]a house.

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IT’S A HOUSE!

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Luci: It’s a window and a door and a roof[br]and a chimney and a path?

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It’s a house.

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Luci: It’s…

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damn good.

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Annika: Let’s hang it up on the wall!

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Luci: Ahhh… [laughs] let’s put it… let’s[br]put it somewhere where people will see it,

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you know, on a more circumstantial basis.

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Annika: Aww!

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Luci: Like we could put it in… this cupboard!

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Luci: And it could be like when people open[br]the cupboard…

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Annika: [laughs][br]Luci: Oh, the artwork on the wall, everyone

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sees that!

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But then they open the cupboard and WOW!

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So yeah.

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Punch needles are a thing.

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Punch Needle embroidery, is a thing.

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This punch needle isn’t a very good one[br]though, because… well, the plastic bit that

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holds the needle in place broke after one[br]use, and then I had to use duct tape to hold

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the needle in place… and, they also really[br]slice through the fabric.

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I was trying to make a steven universe punch[br]needle thing… yeah.

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The fabric just got totally sliced up.

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It could have been the fact that I wasn’t[br]using proper weaver’s cloth Buuuuutt I also

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saw on other websites that cheap punch needles[br]will do this to fabric.

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Okay, so, while I might not be very good at[br]it, yet, and while this one may be a very

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cheap version of it – Punch Needles ARE[br]a legit thing… but the biggest problem that

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I have with this thing – is that this is[br]NOT how it’s been marketed.

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Instead of being marketed as a… not very[br]good Punch Needle, it’s being marketed as

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“a magic embroidery pen”; which as I said[br]in the beginning is being sold as an easy

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way to do standard embroidery stitches, but[br]with like, way less effort when that isn’t

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the case… at ALL.

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So, there is some very shady, dishonest marketing[br]going on here.

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Why?

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…How did this happen?!

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So I kinda imagined that it happened something[br]like this.

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So there is this guy, let’s call him Dennis.

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So Dennis works at this craft warehouse and[br]he’s… not so good at his job.

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And one day, instead of placing an order for[br]100 punch needles, he accidentally places

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an order for 10,000.

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So after a while, he realised he made a mistake[br]but instead of owning up he pretends that

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he didn’t make a mistake at all!

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So then, like 3 months later, 10,000 punch[br]needles show up and he FREAKS OUT and he’s

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like,[br]Dennis: OMG the boss is going to KILL me!

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So Dennis’ much more competent co-worker,[br]Penelope, comes in to save the day and she’s

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like,[br]Penelope: omg Dennis, I can’t leave you

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alone for 10 minutes, the company is ruined.

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But then she’s like…

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Penelope: Luckily you have me, I am going[br]to save the company and I’m going to pull

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the greatest marketing scam ever.

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So you know what’s been really trendy lately?

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Embroidery!

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So let’s say that these punch needles, which[br]are for punch needling, are actually for regular

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embroidery, and that it makes it easier and[br]faster!

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Because you know, millennials, they love their[br]crafts, they love their DIY, but they ALSO

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love getting things done quickly so let’s[br]tell them this is a way to do embroidery faster.

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And so then Penelope and Dennis hatch this[br]scheme to rebrand the punch needles as “MAGIC

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EMBROIDERY PENS”, throw up some real dodgy[br]YouTube tutorials and videos of how it works

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and show a piece at the end that’s most[br]definitely been stolen from an artist who

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has hand-stitched the piece – and BOOM,[br]thousands of people put down money for these…

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and thousands of people are left very disappointed[br]and confused when this god damn pen doesn’t

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do the thing they thought it was supposed[br]to do.

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Dennis.

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This is all your fault.

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So during my research I did find a kind of[br]tool that might work slightly like how this

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was supposed to work – you might want to[br]look into getting a high quality Kantan needle?

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(not sure how to pronounce that!)

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This is how it’s spelt – or a Tambour[br]hook – you can use these tools to do like,

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just basic stitches or the Tambour hook I[br]think does chain stitches and you can do the

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stitches pretty quickly.

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But, keep in mind that you still can’t achieve[br]as many hand stitches as you can with just

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standard hand embroidery.

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But this piece of plastic junk?

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I don’t think I will even attempt to try[br]and use this again, because it’s been SO

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poorly made.

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But if you do like the look of punch needle[br]embroidery, in my research I also found some

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good ones of those.

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This blog here, Theoldtatteredflag, had some[br]recommendations with the ‘ultra’ or ‘cameo’

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needle, CTR punch needles or the Iglochy Russian[br]punch needle.

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And it also took me a long time to find proper[br]instructions on how to use them because the

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internet has been flooded by people being[br]confused with how these things work.

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But I did find a website that I think does[br]show you how to use it properly, which you

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can find the instructions for here; which[br]I will also link and all this stuff in the

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description box below.

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But, a magic, super quick embroidery pen?

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Sadly, that is not really a thing.

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If you do want to learn how to do things properly,[br]first time around – then a resource that’s

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all of this over years.

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to teach myself recently.

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But I needed some graphic design skills to[br]be able to put that together, so a website

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So you should go check it out!

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Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video[br]and thank you to all of you for supporting

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the companies that support this channel.

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So just as a very last thing, you might be[br]like…

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Annika – you hate waste, you talk about[br]it all the time, what’s going to become

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of this punch needle?

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Well, unfortunately this punch needle is going[br]to go the same way as the hand held sewing

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machine.

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In that it’s going to sit forever on this[br]shelf here, making me feel guilty, and no

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I’m not going to take either of these to[br]a thrift shop, because I don’t want to burden

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someone else with this USELESS PIECE OF PLASTIC.

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It doesn’t work.

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At the very least, I hope that putting this[br]video out to, you know, hundreds of thousands

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of people, it’ll stop more people from buying[br]them.

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Anyway, that’s it from me; turned into a[br]pretty ranty video there, but, sometimes you

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just gotta have a good old rant!

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So I hope you call enjoyed…

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listening to it?[br]– and I’ll see you all in my next video.

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Bye!

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Thank you to all of my supporters on Patreon[br]and Ko-fi for making this video possible.

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