help! I can knot make it!

[believer]

I can knot make a french knot apparantly. Ugh. I am making this bookmark for ds - http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/nyan-cat-bookmark and I made the rainbow and the poptart, but could knot make french knots for the spots on the poptart. I finally made purple blobby things on it. :shrug3 and a few purple x's. Now I made the cat's head - the ears are not the same shape and I am not re-doing that now because who would have thought this would be difficult? And I have to put the face on. The eyes would be french knots again I suppose. :hissyfit I can knot dew it. Help me please. I looked at a video online of it. Did not work for me.
Dd says she wants one too and she has a request from a friend for a daisy bookmark like the one I crocheted for her yesterday. The daisy is much easier.
Any suggestions for my knotty problem?

[Kiara.I]

Photograph tutorial instead of video?
http://www.purlbee.com/knot-know-how-tutorial/

(Or sew on small beads for the eyes instead of doing french knots?)

[rosesnsnails]

Photograph tutorial instead of video?
http://www.purlbee.com/knot-know-how-tutorial/

(Or sew on small beads for the eyes instead of doing french knots?)

The tutorial did what I do which is really not a french knot but a small bullion. I can never get french knots to actually stay in. They always pull out or come undone leaving a not-so-attractive loop instead of tidy little eye. :doh

A bead would look really nice and is oh, so much easier to do. :hug

[Domina]

Don't worry, Rabbit. Piglet's very clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdFQZLGNHio

[believer]

Don't worry, Rabbit. Piglet's very clever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdFQZLGNHio
very cute :) but why couldn't owl just fly out? :scratch

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I went on and made the bookmark and will try making the knots from that photo tutorial and see if that works any better. When I did it, the whole thing just pulled through.

[rosesnsnails]

I think the trick is to not go back down in the same hole you came up in. hth With a true French knots, you are supposed to. I could never really make it work that way.

http://images.yourdictionary.com/french-knot

[Wonder Woman]

I can only ever do a french knot if I make sure not to put the needle back into the same hole I came up through - even if I have to split a thread to do it. Some fabrics are better than others, but on anything that stretches like crochet or aida, I have to split it.

Also, jealous of the crochet skillz because I would so make one of those for The Boy :giggle

[believer]

I finished it and ds likes it and now dd wants one too. I will post the photo in the Sept. craft thread. I will practice the french knotting a bit though. I bet dd would like beads instead of the knots actually.

[StumblinMama]

:doh Now you've got my kid wanting one :shifty :giggle Glad you got it figured out!