French knot

Basic Hand-Embroidery Stitches:

French knot

What is French knot? French knot in the role of non-woven finished small eyes, small spots, and flowers point, to increase finished three-dimensional sense.

How to do the French knot?  How to make the knot big plump? There are two ways: 1) multi wrapped around a few laps line (not to exceed 4 laps) 2) the number of shares may be appropriate to increase the line, but only wrapped around a twice.  Let’s show you the way.

Material: thread (red), needles, needle scissor, no-woven

basic material

Firstly, thread on your needle and knot the thread tail end. Then, bring your needle through to the front of no-woven,

needle through to front

Pull enough thread through it, so that you can point the needle back at the thread. 

 have enough thread

Bring your needle to the right side where you want to make your knot. Hold the thread near to the felt and wrap the thread around the end of your needle once and pull it tight. Then wrap the thread around the needle a second time.  

wrap thread around needle twice

Then, Hold the needle and thread firmly, but not too tightly so that the loops tuck up snug around the needle.

hold needle and thread firmly

Now, just hold and re-insert the needle back to the same spot (exit point).

re-insert to point come out

In the meanwhile, left hand slowly pulls the thread down to the exit point. (As picture)

slowly pull down

So the needle slowly down through the non-woven.

needle slowly down

Once the needle has been pulled all the way through, let go of the thread and pull the rest of the loop of thread down through the knot.

hold the thread by left hand until it completely pull down

The knot should stay close to the fabric and keep nice and tight.

keep tight

Lastly, just adjust the knot and cut the thread to finish the stitch.

french knot finished