French knot letter embroidery

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French knots can be a bit tricky. Leading to a love or hate feeling. A couple of good tips will make sure you fall into the love camp!

21K views · 1.7K likes | Stella Caraman on Instagram: "Colonial Knot vs. French Knot 🪡 Step by step, in this tutorial, you will be able to see and learn the difference between these wonderful 2 knots. 👀 By practicing them, you’ll be able to feel how firm you need to be with the thread—neither too tight, risking to pull it inside the fabric, nor too loose, which could result in a lack of knot stability and an unfinished, messy appearance. 🥰 Which one do you think it’s easier to do? 🤔…

Well, alright, that title may be a little over ambitious! But this little project, made entirely of French Knots is quick and fun (honest!). It only requires a small quantity of fabric and you can use up left over floss so it is thrifty too. What's not to love?! So here are your essential tools…

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Watch how to embroider the French knot stitch in the MCreativeJ Stained Glass Sampler embroidery pattern and step-by-step tutorial.

Elena French knot

Learn how to embroider letters with simple embroidery stitches Learn how to embroider Backstitch, Whipped Backstitch, Stem stitch, Chain stitch, Split stitch, and Running stitch. I also added the French knots as an extra stitch, as they are great for the dots and other punctuation you might need when stitching. Click to watch a video tutorial now or Pin for later.

Embroidered capital letter R