How to Make Perfect Puffy French Knot Flowers 🍂 | Full Autumn Embroidery Tutorial

Learn how to stitch these beautiful, fluffy autumn French knot flowers step by step! 🍂
In this full tutorial, I show you the exact technique that makes each knot round, full, and perfectly shaped.
If your French knots usually look loose or uneven, this video will fix that — no more flat knots!

🧵 In this tutorial you’ll learn:
• How to stitch clean, even French knots
• The trick for making them round and puffy
• Stems and placement for an autumn-style design
• How to keep the thread tension steady
• How to avoid twisted or messy knots

🧵 In this video:

🕛 0:00 — Introduction
🕛 0:46 — Making the first row of French knot flowers
How to place and space the knots.

🕛 2:12 — Building the fluffy flower clusters
Layering knots to create the 3D puffy effect.

🕐 5:20 — The secret technique for making puffy, perfectly round French knots

🕛 6:18 — Stitching the stem

🕛 7:17 — Avoid pulling the thread across the back between different parts of the design

🕛 8:12 — Stitching the leaves

🕛 10:58 — Adding the final details with a single strand
Small corrections and filling empty spaces.

This design uses warm autumn colors (orange, deep red, mustard) and is perfect for beginners or anyone who loves textured embroidery.

✨ Threads used:
🌿 DMC 733 · 611 · 640 (leaves)
🌿 Anchor 801 (stems)
🌼 DMC 350 · 741 · 3341 (flowers)


Thread info: I stitched the flowers with 3 strands and the leaves with 2 strands.
✨ Don’t forget to check the Shorts preview I posted earlier!

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