Yesterday’s embroidery club session focused on three-dimensional embroidery techniques.

French knots are the simplest example of those. Sometimes they come out really well for me, and sometimes every other knot loses shape.

Bullion knots – like French knots, but elongated into tiny sausages – were even harder. They kept coming out like small, uneven worms. I think I had the wrong yarn for this – they’d be easier with a smoother, less grippy yarn.

The woven stitches worked better, and the woven wheel stitches looked really nice in fluffy wool yarn.