How Do You Sew A Colonial Knot Embroidery Stitch?
• Thread your needle. Thread your needle and tie a knot. • Place your fabric in an embroidery hoop to help maintain tension on the fabric and keep the stitches from puckering the fabric. • Pull the threaded needle up through the cloth from the back side. • Make a backwards “C” shape with your yarn. • Make a C. Lay your needle down over the curve, and tuck the point in behind the yarn next to where you came up from the back side. • Start the figure 8 Wrap the “working end” of the yarn around the tip of the needle to form a “figure eight” on the needle. • Finish the figure 8 Pull on the working end of the yarn to snug down the figure eight. • Hold everything snug while poking the needle through and tightening the knot. Poke the loaded needle down next to where it came up (not in the same hole, but just next to it). • Keep a gentle tension on the working end of the thread as you pull the needle through and snug down the knot. Repeat as often as you like for a very easy “French knot” subst
