I really like both versions to be honest and I think the wrong one would be the correct one in some contexts. For example for my lavander embroidery I used the wrong version and in my view it looks much better with a "messier" knot than with a clean one. But great tip! I see some people didnt know how to make the knot look clean.
SpongeBob Avocado totally! There are certain situations where I also prefer a looser knot to achieve certain textures. I find a lot of people complain about struggling to get that nice tight knot so that’s what I was trying to show!
@@riverbirchthreads4791 I agree! It's a really great tutorial! Very helpful! Could you also post a video about how to avoid wrinkling when embroidering?
Yes, I agree. When I did my fashion diploma we were taught 'the right way' and I chose to do some seams 'the wrong way' ...my tutor told me once you know the right way you can experiment with other ways. So, I think, there is no wrong way if it's what you want. (as long as it doesn't fall apart lol).
Are you wrapping the thread the right way on the needle? Basically pull the thread up through the fabric and hold the thread in place a few inches from the fabric. Wrap the needle tip pointing away from the fabric (towards where you are holding the thread.) If you wrap it with the point going towards the fabric it will untwist and pull through the fabric leaving you with basically nothing. I hope that helps.
I usually do my French knots the messy way and like the look of it, but it's very nice to know how to do them cleanly when needed as well! This is a great demo to show the simple tweaks needed to improve the knot.
Thank you. I am just starting to embroider again after 40 years and the first stitch in my kit is a French knot. I felt entirely like putting it away but you just made it accessible. Thank you.
@@am2schmarvelous wow good for you for starting up again! I know exactly that feeling like you want to give up especially with the French knot! It seems impossible until you finally figure it out.
J M that sounds like you are going back down through the fabric through the same hole you came up through! You want to go back down right beside the point you came up. See if that helps! 😊
River Birch Threads I must be doing the same thing as the knot just isn’t there! It is also a little awkward as I am very left handed! I tried yesterday to construct some. I learned to crochet right handed and I knit right handed learned when I was very young....The sewing, I was unable too! I’ll keep trying as I have completed a cross stitch and it has quite a few French Knots and it will look wrong without them. Thank you for the tutorial! This too I shall overcome!
maggie j I did finally get it! Even though my cross-stitch piece was only small it had about 40 French knots, I couldn’t leave them out. Now on to another small project. I hope you are doing okay during this time we are going through. Praying everyday that this will soon be over. I hate wearing face masks! I feel like I’m hyperventilating after a while. Blessings to you.
I learned very quickly to hold the thread. I’ve also found that wrapping it three times works well and gives a slightly bigger knot. I also like the affect that a looser knot gives sometimes (though you have to be careful the thread doesn’t tangle and knot too soon. Honestly I find satin stitch harder than french knots.
Yes, I've tangle-knotted many a french knot until I saw this difference. I gave up trying to french knot for some time now; I just built up straight stitches on each other if needs be.
I love the satin stitch! Stem stitch however, (k)not so much. I am currently working on a Halloween embroidery that had me satin stitch bats and getting the points perfect was a challenge but i am not looking forward to the stem stitch lettering.
@Tianna Elizalde Me either! its brutal lol my biggest trigger is children, so anytime I hear a kid scream, talk or laugh I have a breakdown and shut down. I talked to my doctor about it and I'm starting cognitive behavioural therapy and I take 200g of sertraline a day to chill out (it helps a bit) I suppose I do have physical reactions like if I hear a kid I lay in bed an cry myself to sleep lol and I contemplate taking my life over it too, I sweat as well, I literally CANNOT stand the voice of a child (I dont dislike kids I just get an unexplained reaction when I hear them 🤷🏻♀️) take care of yourself!! Noise can have such a serious impact on people's lives, I've never seen anyone admit they have misophonia, I think it should be discussed more! x Edit: grammar mistake
@Tianna Elizalde you're such a sweetheart, thank you!! I hope it gets easier for you too! And omg the gum chewing thing lol people think that's what I mean when I say I cant stand noises lol but its so much deeper than that!! I haven't started the cognitive behavioural therapy yet because of covid but I think itll basically be teaching me coping mechanisms, problem solving, correcting behaviours or thought patterns. I have severe OCD which impacts my misophonia, I think my doctor wants to tackle the ocd first. CBT is complex I just heard about it 1 year ago but theres plenty of info on google!! It's used for body dysmorphia disorder as well. And omg the headphones are a life saver eh, I cant help myself but blast it in my ears 😂. sweetest reply I've ever read, you have a heart of gold. Stay blessed and thank you again x 😇
Thank you for your thoughtful, clear demonstration. Both types of knot: tight/concise and loose/over the top - prove extremely successful for different effects. It’s lovely to understand the underpinnings of a method. 🧵
Zazu Zazz it’s very true! I often use a looser knot for certain effects as well! I guess the video was aimed more at how to make the knots nice and tight for someone struggling and only able to produce the loose look
I am glad I found you! I couldn't find anything that was very basic for beginners. I mean I cant make a bouquet of flowers if I barely know how to make a line of perfect stitches! I really appreciate that you started from the beginning, of embroidery and you didn't start from building bouquets right away. I hope you stick with it tho!
Crystal and Robert Dominguez thanks Crystal! Glad this video helped you! It is my goal to put out more in the next few months that will be aimed at beginners! :)
I cannot thank you enough 🎉 I have never found anyone who explains it in a way I understand but by showing the wrong way I have finally got it! A thousand thank yous ❤
Ok ok, so this actually kinda saved me because I wanted a "looser" knot for my project but I kept getting really tight knots and this showed me what to do, thanks!
Wow you are a very good teacher! Clear, detailed instructions, and a camera angle + pace that made it easy to see how you did it. Thanks so much for the great advice
Ughhh you are an embroidery angel! I’ve only done french knots once before, and I struggled so much to even do them to start with, let alone do them nice and neat! (They were for pupils, so neat looks far better than messy) It took me at least an hour to get all four knots done satisfactory enough. Had I had this tutorial at the time, I would have had a much better time of it. Your video is amazing. It’s short and sweet and gets straight into the heart of the matter, and you explain the method so well. I’d been struggling to do a french knot again when I found this, and I can say that the next french knot I did was the best I’ve ever done in one try!
Her - "maybe fill in a big circle, as boring as that sounds" Me - whips my head around to glare at the half filled sunflower center I have sitting across the room (at least I've been doing them right, but holy carp it takes f o r e v e r)
Thank you!!! I have been struggling with these for so long and your video is the only one that explained to keep tension and has entirely fixed the hours of frustration I had with these.
OMG!!!! THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!! off and on for about 25 years I have dreaded when this stitch comes up in the pattern!!! I can never get it right!! even in this same baby blanket I'm currently making I watched a different video and still couldn't get it right! Watched you do it once and got it immediately!!!! Thank you soooooo much!!!!
Thank you so much. I have been hating French knots for decades. My instructions never mentioned how to move the direction of the needle when wrapping the thread. Without even doing it myself I can see how that will fix my knots coming loose. Thank you again.
This was such a helpful video! I just started my first embroidery project and with just a single view of this I was able to figure out what I needed to do. Thank you so much!
picturesque.pineapple yeah! Honestly that’s part of the fun of them, if you purposely keep them loose you get a different look! I shouldn’t have labelled it “wrong” but instead a “looser knot” 👍🏼
I still come back to this video whenever i forget how to do a french knot and i wanted to do a correct one which I'm glad i found this video,this video is very informative, I'm trying do a french knot as eyes on my amigurumi pony project ,thanks so much again for this video
Thank you! So glad you find it helpful. French knot eyes are tricky… I actually usually don’t use them because they are so 3D and can sometimes move and make the eye look funny!
My grandmother tried teaching me this year's ago before she passed and I could never get it to look right until now! Thank you for such a clear and precise tutorial!
This has been a great help for me. I am making a felt "Lowly worm" for my grandsons. I wanted something safe for the buttons, as they are very young. These French knots should be perfect. Thank you.
Dear Heart, thank you for this video. Am working on a sunflower embroidery project - a birthday present for my son's amazing partner and then centers of the sunflowers are all french knots. This helps tremendously. All Love
God bless you. I have been trying this knot for twenty minutes now with no success. Found your video and got it right away. I don't know what it is about typical embroidery tutorial videos, but they go SO fast, it's impossible to catch on! You're the best!
@@riverbirchthreads4791 please do! whatever you're using for sound currently is INCREDIBLE. all you'd have to do is record you doing one of your embroidery projects and we'd watch soo much of it
I’m just trying to learn hand embroidery as a hobby and yesterday same was happening with me! Couldn’t do the French knot nicely but kind of guessed it later I gotta hold the thread tight with left hand. Your video is very helpful. Thanks 😊
Thank for this video! I know it’s old, but still. I just started dabbling in embroidery, and I thought the French knot looked so easy…. But I couldn’t even get a knot. I’ve watched several other videos, but yours was very nicely up close and and slow, I figured it out!
Oh my goodness! This is perfect! I struggled for an hour doing it the 'wrong way' till I got frustrated and stopped. But on to a fresh attempt tomorrow. Thank you so much! 😊
I ran across this and just had to watch it. Very good demonstration. Happy to know I have been doing it correctly and totally get it about how they can get messy and oversized like the "not" side..
Thank you for this video! I am teaching myself cross stitching and the pattern said it needed French knots and I was so confused. I've been looking everywhere and this is the best video I've found on how to do them correctly! It's like a light bulb clicked in my head! Thank you again! 😊 ❤
I just started embroidering and could not get the French Knot right. I have watched so many videos this week trying to figure it out and yours is the only one that clicked. THANK YOU!
Fantastic video to explain what should be a simple stitch. I’m always surprised when the knots turn out correctly. Now I know exactly what to do. TY so much.
DEBORAH WORTHAM thank you!’ And I’m glad you found it helpful. It should be the simplest stitch but somehow it seems to be the one we all struggle with!
Kept trying this and the thread would just pull through with no knot. I finally realized I was pulling the wrong thread! If your knot isn't forming, be sure you're pulling the thread tail that's been wrapped around the needle, not the side that's coming up through the fabric. At 1:29, see how she's holding the thread tail that's been wrapped and not the thread that's through the fabric. Wrap the thread and keep ahold of that piece while you push the needle back through.
Thanks, you made learning this easy! I kept making a mess of my knots before I found your very helpful tips! After watching it once, they turned out perfect xx
I've been stitching for 30+ years, and I've always had the same problem: my French knots come out as a straight line. No, I'm not going down through the same hole, and no, the floss is not slipping off the needle, and yes, I am pulling it tight. I just keep trying and sometimes a knot miraculously appears lol, or I manipulate the floss through kind of like I'm tying my shoes. Pulling it through and a knot appears effortlessly has never ever happened. But, I'll keep trying, keeping this video in mind!
Traci Lay hi Traci! That’s so frustrating and I’m wondering why you are having such a difficult time with them. I hope by just repeating the process over and over you start to have more successes.
That happened to me a few times too and I have no idea why or how! When I was starting out every French knot came out as a simple straight line and I still don't get why. It frustrated me into simply giving up with French knots altogether for a while.
OK, I was having this problem and I just found out why. Honestly it's so frustrating. I hope I can explain it: so you pull the needle through the fabric towards yourself, now you do the thread warping around the needle (with the needle pointing at you) and THEN you turn the needle down to go again through the fabric. This makes the free thread being UNDER the loops around the needle, and after finishing it it will go around making the French knot. It's a bit hard writing it, but I hope it helped!
Thank you for the simple clear demo! You are a good instructor. French knots are not as hard as I thought they would be. I never seemed to get them right. Now I know why. :0) I should not have any problems now!
