Comments on: Band Sampler: French Knot

By: Mal

Mal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:00:46 +0000

@jeannette: Good questions! I will plan a post with some more information in the very near future. Thanks!

By: jeannette

jeannette — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:17:55 +0000

hi, i wanted to ask you what fabric do you suggest for a band sampler? i’m thinking of working my way through Mary Thomas’ Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches, which would be a life’s work fer sher, but if i get started now i might could be finished when i’m 173 years old. could you do a tute on formation of the sampler? one of the links you have has disappeared, i’m very sorry to say, and sharonb’s 100 foot band sampler is pretty daunting for a humble beginner. plus i don’t see her saying what fabric to start with.

By: Mal

Mal — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:07:43 +0000

@Erika: How interesting! Maybe I will look back at the image in hindsight and agree with you. For now, I think I am still too stuck in the confusion and frustration of that week. I’m glad for your perspective, thank you.

By: Miss Erika

Miss Erika — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:08:26 +0000

I see your french knots “backwards”. Idea taking off, and oozing out from somewhere, too many to be kept in one place, or in my case, in my new idea notebook.

By: Mal

Mal — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:41:44 +0000

@jo: This is totally something that I see happening in my work all the time.

@Sue & Melissa: Thanks for your compliments. I don’t know why, but I have always taken easily to french knots. Maybe because I learned them so early? For me, the trick is to place the work on a flat surface or my lap and use both of my hands to even out the tension.

By: Mal

Mal — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:38:55 +0000

@aneela: What a great idea! I’m totally going to use this.

By: aneela

aneela — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:36:34 +0000

another good way of providing distance from your artwork is to look at it upside down! this works really well if you been looking at your work for a while and no longer see it as it really is.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:21:01 +0000

Hi! Found your blog through this photo in flickr. The french knots are beautiful! I’m terrible at them. I have no patience.

By: jo

jo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:01:06 +0000

Know what you mean about moods seeping in. I am doing an embroidery course and last week involves wrapping and knots. I hated every minute, not that it was difficult, just because my head was else where. Sure enough people are saying there is something strange about the two squares I completed. Almost alien!!!

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:37:35 +0000

Ooh that is lovely. I do like French knots