Chica and I are having so much fun at the CHA Summer Show in Chicago. We’ve met so many fun people and made lots of new friends. We’ve also seen more amazing new products than we ever expected. Our minds are full of ideas and projects we want to do with the things we’ve seen today, and we still get to go back tomorrow for more!
We’ll be sure to tell you all about our favorite products in great detail soon, but for now we wanted to share something fun and simple that we learned today. The lovely Rhonda at the Jack Dempsey Needle Art booth was helping us embroider a cute little frog at their make-and-take, and we realized something. Even though Chica and I both had done embroidery before, there was one particular technique that had always eluded us, and that was the French knot. Fortunately, Rhonda was happy to show us know to make a French knot and let us film it so you guys could see. Thanks Rhonda!
If you can’t see the video above, you can view it directly here.
2 comments so far:
LOL that you didn’t know how to make a French knot! I learned that early on, because, you know, after you made the flower’s petals you had to put a knot in the center…. Haven’t seen the video but I assume that you wrap the thread multiple times tightly around the needle, then push it through the cloth and pull the long “tail” through….. They look great but if doing many they are time consuming, and most people hate doing them. (Not me.
I hate satin stitching.)
This is one thing I’ve never mastered (tried for years so all my ribbon embroidery and cross stitch was knotless). Thanks so much!