How to Make a French knot in embroidery

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People think the French knot is tough to stitch but, it’s not as you think even it’s easy to stitch it. Most people fear the French knot so, don’t be scared of it instead, stitch it properly. When you stitch it with its requirements, you will be amazed to see your perfect French knot.

 

In this article, we bring complete guidelines that how you can make a perfect French knot.

French knot Uses

The French knot is charming and beautiful, and sometimes it looks like a small rose flower.

You can use it in many different ways like you can stitch it for filling flowers, and you can stitch a total height with it, use it for animal’s eyes when you stitch on your kid’s outfits, and use it with fancy embroidery. There are more ways to use it; you can search any website to get more ideas.

More ideas

How you can make your things beautiful by adding a French knot in them has many ideas.

 

  • Stitch French knot on table cover, you can stitch any design like a bunch of flowers precisely in the middle of the table. It looks charming and unique.
  • Stitch it on your baby outfit; stitching a pair of cats with a bowl of milk is a unique idea. If you have a baby boy, then make him happy by stitching his favorite toys like a car or any other thing.
  • Another idea is for your baby’s bedroom, stitch the sky on their window’s curtain and bring some creativity in your life.
  • You can also stitch the French knot on your cushion covers, so make cushion covers with different French knots designs.
  • Please include it in your kitchen’s decoration stitch a fruit basket with the french knot on window’s curtain.
  • You can use them in your dress, stitch a beautiful border with some bright, colorful threads and make yourself happy. You deserve to be satisfied as well.
  • French knot looks like fluffy stuff, so it’s a great idea to make a garden view for your guest room or a common room. Use some green-colored threads with different shades and stitch a perfect garden view.

 

Try these ideas and bring perfection in your work. First, you need to learn how to make French knots in embroidery so. Therefore we are explaining a complete tutorial step by step.

Method of stitching French knot

Read every step carefully; don’t miss anything if you dream of learning a perfect French knot.

Supplies

  • A fabric
  • A needle
  • A thread
  • An embroidery hoop

Step # 1

Take your fabric and hoop it in an embroidery hoop tightly.

Step # 2

Bring the needle out from the opposite side of the fabric.

Step # 3

Now bring the needle close to the fabric and wrap the thread twice around the needle.

Step # 4

Now the tricky step has come, your French knot’s perfection depends on this step.

Take the needle back towards the fabric and insert it in the fabric close to the first point and keep straight the thread with the other hand while it’s going back. Don’t give looseness to the thread otherwise your knot will be destroyed.

Now you can see that your first French knot has been created.

Tips

There are some tips, follow them and save you from making a mistake.

 

  1. Use both your hands because it’s essential, and hold the thread from your left hand if you have a needle in your right hand. Hold the thread with your right hand if you hold the needle with your left hand.
  2. Don’t try to wrap the thread more than two times, if you want a thick stitch so increase the thread strands. You can take 4 or 6 strands to make it wider as you wish.
  3. Once again, we warn you about step four, don’t loosen the thread if you don’t want to make your knot worst
  4. Don’t insert the needle back to the same point because you will lose your knot by doing this.

 

Keep in mind these instructions and start practice; if you follow the tips, you can stitch a perfect French knot.

Don’t have beautiful and eye-catching designs, don’t worry about it, do some research. You will get many websites where you can download free designs.