Tambour Hook Use???

Il Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:23:11 -0800 (PST), snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net ha scritto:

I've got it too, but haven't had much time to play with it, just took a 2 hours quick tour with a teacher, enough to see how to make chain stitch and how to apply sequins. You could enjoy these two books:

- La Broderie de Luneville (Mick Fouriscot, Roland Gravelier - Editions Didier Carpentier)

- Le point de Beauvais (Mick Fouriscot, Pascale Duchenoy - Editions Didier Carpentier) Both are in French, but have clear diagrams and photos, and several easy projects. (I don't speak French, but I'm learning it, at least for embroidery terms, just by "look-and-compare"). I bought them on

Ciao, Stefania

I saw a friend do some once. She used a fine steel crochet hook. She kept the spool of thread in her cleavage. Worked for her!

Monique Reed

I have to admit that after a summer bead project I did I found that on fabric, at least, (a nicely loose-woven cotton/flax sort of fabric) that a steel crochet hook did better than a tambour hook. I think perhaps I would use a tambour on open netting or chiffon where I could see better. I got my hook (s, as I got several sizes with a handle) from Lacis several years ago, but haven't used it per se. Just the crochet hook this summer. I liked the crochet hook better on the fabric as it didn't catch on the fabric threads, which the tambour hook insisted on doing. A finer thread, or a see-thru fabric would work better with a tambour hook as one could see to prevent snarling or catching the fabric threads, in my opinion.

I want to thank the poster for the two book titles, that sounds marvelous and I am rushing over...

gw

Now, *there* is a name I haven't seen in a loooooooooooooong while!!!

Welcome back, Monique! What have you been up to lately and, more importantly, what have you been stitching on these last 3 years?

Joan

Howdy! Nice to be remembered. I lurk a lot, but when the OT wars flare up, I wander off from time to time.

I've been stitching on and off on various things (some Ellen Maurer-Stroh, a Long Dog sampler, Crossed Wing's Wood Warblers, etc.), but I've also been doing a lot of quilting and beadwork. Next year I am going to bite the bullet and do Sense of Sight from Scarlet Quince:

no?

M> >

Hello Stefania,

Thanks for the info but won't be able to see those books anytime soon, maybe at a later time.

I recently bought a book in French that I had to have even though I'm not able to read much with only a few years of HS French years ago. I know what you mean about learning the basic needlework terms would help a lot to "read" the needlework instructions.

Title: Catalogue Ouvrages De Dames - Mercerie, Broderie Bibliotheque Sajou The book was expensive at $60 for a paperback but I couldn't resist the pictures of old needlework items...the photos were absolutely gorgeous!!

I noticed at the Knitting Show where I bought my book that Sajou reprints old French patterns and needlework booklets...many from DMC

gw...

That's a good idea to use a loosely woven fabric that will work with the tambour hook...I was too carried away and anxious to "play" with the tambour hook to notice the fabric the first time I used the hook...no wonder the big holes!

Now I see some of you prefer using a thin steel crochet hook...maybe I'll try that too but I want the tambour hook to work out so will struggle some more and learn. A personal challenge...there's also the Russian Punch Needle...will use the right type of fabric, a tightly woven fabric when I experiment with the punch needles!!

I like the idea of using an "old" traditional needlework tool to create something...guess it's a romantic ideal from reading the many Jane Austen sequels that have cropped up in the last few years!! It'll be an accomplishment to bead & sequin with the tambour hook! The one good thing is I've managed to do a decent chain stitch with the hook so far.

Hi - I am glad to see you too!

That chart is someth> Howdy! Nice to be remembered. I lurk a lot, but when the OT wars flare

Are you bringing it to my house, or am I bringing me to your house? My French is good enough to translate for you, so we can sit on the couch together and both enjoy it.

You're no crazier than I am. I don't know if you've seen on other messages that I'm working on Carol Emmer's stuffed nativity set and I've reversed the patterns so I'm stitching each twice so I can arrange the set in different ways. There are 17 pieces to the set, therefore 34 pieces to stitch.

Joan

I'm thinking 16 ct. Should still be good coverage, but easier on the eyes. With confetti stitches like that, the back gets really messy, and

18 ct. is too jammed up.

Now I need to decide whether I will stitch as is or eliminate the background and do just the angel on a hand-dyed piece that looks like sky. I rather like the dawn, the sea, the green hills behind her. The little white dots over her shoulder are sheep! Here is a link to the original painting:

Bet your nativity is going to be gorgeous! Will the figures be double-sided?

Monique

Aha! I Googled. My mother got all of the patterns in this set and stitched them into one flat wallhanging, arranging all the figures around the Infant and overlapping the designs where necessary. She drew a very faint Bethlehem skyline in the background and put a big Christmas star at the top. It's really splendid and she hangs it proudly every year. She says that Joseph looks like my DH and one year my dad made a teeny pair of glasses and put them on Joseph to help the resemblance along. Hee hee hee...

Monique

I could see that happening. 16 has become my favorite count.

I can see it either way, although with the background she looks a bit more earth-bound, like she's *just* turned into an angel. No matter which you decide, it will be a beautiful piece! I did Fairy Grandmother on hand-dyed fabric and I like it *much* better than the natural linen that MLI did the model on! You can see it in my webshots album, user name ndjoan.

What a cool idea! She's not a glutton for punishment like me, then? :)

ROTFL! I bet your mom got a kick out of that! Does she still put them on him every year?

Joan

To me it looks as if it might be Easter morning and she has just caught sight of Someone and recognition is about to dawn. I Photoshoped around the other day and put just the angel on sky. Whatever story is there gets lost somehow.

In the Nativity:

No, but we still laugh about it.

Monique

I can't wait to see what designs you develop. How about adapting Chocolata or Bessie and Elmo for tambour or punchneedle?

strange i replied to this post and it doesn`t show ????

I see this but not anything else. Perhaps you emailed rather than posted?

I've been considering all sorts of ideas to do with the punch needle especially doing a series of designs. Anyone of those subjects you mentioned would look good punch needled!

Finding time to practice with the punch needle is my major holdup as I'd like my loops to come out as perfectly as possible! Hopefully I'll have something to show in the next three months!