I often seem to find myself cutting shapes out of wood. I’ve cut mermaids, lobsters, anchors, whales, the shape of my province, and even pigs and cows.
I decided to do a reverse cut out of a cow, meaning keeping the outer pieces, leaving a blank space in the shape of a cow.
I used some spruce and stained it and then cut the pieces in uneven lengths and glued the pieces together, edge to edge.
The cow shape was cut with my jigsaw. Once I had it cut out I thought it needed something else, the cow needed to be filled in. First I painted the cut edges of the cow with a cream colour and then painted a thin piece of plywood black and screwed it to the back of the piece. I added three coat hooks across the bottom.
I superimposed Farmhouse and Welcome to give customers ideas of what I could paint on this piece. Someone may want their family name as well.
26″ x 13 1/2″
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So clever and beautiful Julie! I could see this used as a beautiful momento idea for my childhood barn wood…
oh, I love this! Great job.
You are truly the jigsaw wizard! This looks great and I love the idea!
Love the reverse cut technique Julie. These cow coathook signs are truly beautiful… I hope you sell lots of them.
Thank you for sharing them at Create, Bake, Grow & Gather this week. I'm delighted to be featuring you at tonight's party.
Hugs,
Kerryanne
So pretty! Maybe you can use chalkboard paint and sell it with a piece of chalk for they to write whatever they want.
You are truly the master of the jigsaw. This looks great and people will snap it up. Awesome!