I’ve just made a new video tutorial showing how to use a nifty technique to embroider motifs onto small loom weavings.
The technique is tambour crochet, and the motif is one of my most favorites, the heart…
This is the first in a series of video tutorials and free projects that I will be posting in honor of ‘Stitch Red’, which is the Needlearts industry’s campaign for heart disease awareness- working to benefit The Heart Truth through the end of June 2013.
I care deeply about heart health, as my mother and mother in law both had heart problems, and my mom had to have surgery on her heart.
I don’t want any of us to have to go through that …. so I am very committed to helping people have happy healthy hearts!
I used the tambour technique to embroider the heart and greyhound for the memorial piece about the passing of our beloved companion in this blog post Link
copyright Noreen Crone-Findlay
In the video, I promised that I would share a heap of links, and so here they are:
The Stitch Red campaign website is: www.stitchred.com
You can follow on twitter and facebook
Their blog is http://www.stitchred.com/blog.asp
The yarn in the video is delicious gorgeousness from Koigu yarns: Stitch Red yarn and more Stitch Red
The loom in the video is a 14 inch triangle loom from Dewberry Ridge looms tri loom
More links to the Stitch Red campaign: Ravelry group
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Hi Noreen, as usual a lovely technique to learn! I have always wanted to use a tambour hook, and I crochet, so I thought it could not be so hard! Yet I have two left thumbs when I come to do it, lol! I need to study your video to get the hand positions right. A video like yours is worth volumes of instructions. Thank you! Keep up the good work, you are an inspiration!
BTW, your first link to stitchred.com does not work.
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Hello Caroline
Thank you so much! Tambour crochet is a wonderful technique that I have been using for a long time, and it struck me that I really ought to share my delight with it!
You’ll have the hang of it really quickly 🙂
Thanks for the heads up on the broken link. I have fixed it and hope that the fix sticks!
I also edited the pic of my greyhound memorial piece into this post, as this is how I did the embroidery for that piece.
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I enjoyed this very informative tutorial, Noreen. How do you allow for potential draw-in of the fabric (after washing the triangle) due to different tensions and possible different fiber content/gauges of the woven “canvas” of the triangle and the crocheted outline? Would you block each crocheted motif?
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Great question, Jan! Thanks for bringing it up! Yes, indeed, blocking is our friend! Also, working with a fairly loose tension when doing the tambour crochet will help to alieviate intense draw in.
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I had never heard of this type of crochet before but what a fast easy way to add something special to the weaving.
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Hi Carolee- It’s one of my most favorite ways of embellishing woven, crocheted and knitted fabrics- hope you have fun with it! 🙂
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I love tambour crochet. Nice video. Very sorry about your greyhound.
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Thank you, Katie
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