A bird in the hand...

 

Here is the design for bird number two.  Each of these designs have to be transferred to Weavers cloth and then the punching begins.

The designs are working quickly - a pace I hadn't anticipated.  Part of the ease is that there are only two colors being used - black and ecru.  No blending required - just straight forward punching one color or another.

And here is the fully punched design number two.  Its now on to bird number three...

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." - Lou Holtz