Have you ever made a French knot and instead of it sitting nicely on top of the fabric when you pull the thread through, it gets pulled to the back of the fabric, leaving a hole? They add a lot of dimension to your embroidery keep things interesting! Why Does My French Knot Pull Through? But once you’ve learned how to master this knot, you’ll be able to use it in all sorts of different ways, from filling in large areas, so using them for the center of flowers. Like any new skill, this stitch will take some practice. If you’d like to see this in action, I have a video on youtube that goes into the basics as well as the tips that I touched on above! Hope this helps! Once your thread is almost all the way through you can let go. When you first start pulling the thread through the back of the fabric, still keep a hold on the thread you’ve been holding with your middle, index, and thumb. TIP: the trick with this is to not lose tension of the wraps. Start pulling your thread through the wraps you made.

Keeping the wraps snug with your fingers, take the needle back down directly beside where you initially came up.

You’ll see in a moment when you pull the thread through how it can get stuck if it’s too tight TIP: when you wrap this around the needle, you want the wraps to be snug, but not too tight.

Wrap the thread around the needle ( depending on what size you’d like the french knot to be, I normally do 2-3 times).

With your middle finger still holding the tail on the back of the fabric, take the thread you just pulled through in between your index and thumb finger.

Instead, hold the tail of the thread behind your fabric with your middle finger. TIP: I recommend not knotting the end of your thread before you get started, because a lot of times the needle will snag the knot when you come back down through the fabric.

Come up through the back of the fabric with your needle and thread.

French knot embroidery