"put the eye of the needle throgh the knot"
#21
Junior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 105
Can anyone answer this?
I asked this a while back but no one answered. Anyone know?
LOL Alison. It did sound quite tasty. "Orange zest" is apparently a must. Will have to try it, once I buy a zester. LOL
Now I am in a PANIC, however, over knots. The woman who tought me how to do a cathedral windows said to do the following.
1. To start, tie a double knot and bury it in the folds of the windows. Cut the tail VERY short.
2. to end, get to the "end", then make two extra stitches, passing the needle through each before tightening.
So that is what I have been doing.
ACK - is this whole thing just going to fall apart??
Now I am in a PANIC, however, over knots. The woman who tought me how to do a cathedral windows said to do the following.
1. To start, tie a double knot and bury it in the folds of the windows. Cut the tail VERY short.
2. to end, get to the "end", then make two extra stitches, passing the needle through each before tightening.
So that is what I have been doing.
ACK - is this whole thing just going to fall apart??
#22
Super Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Southeast Wisconsin
Posts: 1,070
No, it is not going to fall apart. There are as many ways to make knots as there are quilters (well not quite). I have made my knots like you do for toomany years to count and nothing has fallen apart.
#24
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 5,397
I was baffled at first, and then I thought of how I make knots when I'm embroidering – I wrap the thread a few times around the tip and then slide the wraps (which become the knot) down over the eye of the needle, down the thread, till it's a knot at the end.
I never would have described it the way she did, but like you said, you find all kinds, and not just in Boston!
I never would have described it the way she did, but like you said, you find all kinds, and not just in Boston!
#25
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Small town in Northeast Oregon close to Washington and Idaho
Posts: 2,795
Maybe she meant to do a french knot? http://www.needlenthread.com/2006/11...-tutorial.html When I googled "pass eye of the needle through the knot" I got several hits for french knots
#26
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Michigan. . .FINALLY!!!!
Posts: 6,726
Thank you a million times for this video!!!!! I have tried for years to make a 'French Knot' and it fell apart each time. I didn't understand how to do it by reading directions. Watcing it is completey different. I don't know why I didn't think of this before, but thank you!!!!
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
bearisgray
General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
65
02-01-2024 09:04 AM