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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
to be reviewing something that a lot of you

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

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

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But I’m a little bit skeptical of whether
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,
let’s see if it… can do the thing.

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

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

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but there’s a lot of like, generic versions
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
none the less!

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

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Needle punching is.. easy to start and impossible
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
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
threader, and the punch needle.

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So first we put the threader in through the
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
know what weight of thread I’m supposed

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

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Oh!

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And there it goes… and then we use this
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
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
try it out on – I’m just going to pop

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that onto an embroidery hoop so that the fabric
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
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…
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
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…
[laughs]

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Eugh, not again!

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This is the handheld sewing machine all over
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
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
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
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...
[laughs]

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C’monnnn C’MONNNNNN
[weeps in frustration]

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

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

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

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help, let’s just make it as long as possible…
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
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.
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
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
to work.

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

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examples they’ve given, I mean, there’s
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
needles, this is the one that was originally

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in it, which is GIGANTIC compared to this
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]
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
fabric!

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What happened?

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What happened to make you not want to stay
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
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
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
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
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
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
hand embroidery, the type that’s just done

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with needle and thread, the type that you
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
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,
rug-like textures, made up of lots of tiny

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little loops, either using yarn or thick embroidery
floss.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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assume that means they’re saying apply it
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
be used on things like clothes, or bags…

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

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

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

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

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

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So I thought that I would punch needle a little
house.

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

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

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

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

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

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the side that we’re going to be punching
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,
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,
and we can, apparently, adjust the length

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Yeah.

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

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

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

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But like… better than this because this…
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
house – right?

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

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Luci: Give me some clue?

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Annika: [laughs]
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
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
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
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
the cupboard…

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Annika: [laughs]
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
though, because… well, the plastic bit that

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

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

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I was trying to make a steven universe punch
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
using proper weaver’s cloth Buuuuutt I also

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

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

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

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

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

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

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way to do standard embroidery stitches, but
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
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
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
he’s… not so good at his job.

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And one day, instead of placing an order for
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
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
needles show up and he FREAKS OUT and he’s

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

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

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like,
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
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
are for punch needling, are actually for regular

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embroidery, and that it makes it easier and
faster!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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do the thing they thought it was supposed
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
tool that might work slightly like how this

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was supposed to work – you might want to
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
hook – you can use these tools to do like,

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just basic stitches or the Tambour hook I
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
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
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
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
recommendations with the ‘ultra’ or ‘cameo’

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needle, CTR punch needles or the Iglochy Russian
punch needle.

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

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

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

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can find the instructions for here; which
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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So just as a very last thing, you might be
like…

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Annika – you hate waste, you talk about
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
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
shelf here, making me feel guilty, and no

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I’m not going to take either of these to
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
video out to, you know, hundreds of thousands

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

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Anyway, that’s it from me; turned into a
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?
– and I’ll see you all in my next video.

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Bye!

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