She’s from the Misfits monster embroidery pattern. Yep – those flowers pants are all French knots. There are a few French knots decorating this pretty bird.Ĭlick here for that free embroidery pattern.Īnd here’s a totally insane practice project. I know this because that’s been the response in every class I’ve ever taught. But I guarantee that some of you have a certain light in your eyes and you’re staring at the screen thinking, “Is it really that simple? Is that really what I’ve been doing wrong all this time?” And you’re itching to grab a hoop and see if it really works. Right now some of you are probably laughing at me because you’ve been successfully doing French knots since you were a kid.

That’s it! Once I figured it out I was set and I haven’t had a failed French knot since. All this time I simply had my needle pointed the wrong way during the thread-wrapping part of the knot. You know – the ones with NO ACCOMPANYING TEXT to tell you about things to be careful of/look out for. Many thanks to Professor Pincushion who is going to show you how. It’s not too hard to learn but sometimes it can be a little bit tricky to master a neat-looking French knot. I blame it on my inability to read those cryptic stitch diagrams. The French Knot is a beautiful embroidery stitch, perfect to create embroidery flowers. I realized the problem wasn’t the French knot – it was me. well, let’s just say there was swearing while I picked out the bad stitch and rethreaded my needle.įor a long time I thought it was just a French knot thing. Every time I stitched one I held my breath to see if it would hold. Sometimes they worked, but most of the time they didn’t. I loved the effect – there’s nothing quite like it for teeny polkadots and nubbly texture.

For years I had a love/hate relationship with them. When you don’t know the trick to them, that is. Oooh la la! French knots – so very fancy – and so very frustrating.

French knot embroidery