Tuesday 10 January 2017

A Year of Stitches Day 10: French Knots

Today I started with French knots as a fill stitch. I filled the middle of one spiral with them to balance the yellow satin stitch circle in the other spiral.



Today's Stitch

Yet again I used Sarah Homfray's tutorial to learn this stitch. I thought it would be hard to do but I thoroughly enjoyed it. The method she demonstrates makes it quite straight forward. The one problem I had was tangling my thread on the back of the work. I don't know what caused that problem but I now check after each stitch that the thread hasn't tangled.

I used two strands of the yellow to make the knots as I thought that one strand would make them too small.





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