Danish Knot is also known as
Danish Knotted Stitch
About the Danish Knot
This is a simple, stand-alone knotted stitch. Danish Knots can be used in plenty as a filling or scattered around for decoration.
How to do the Danish Knot
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| Fig 1: As shown, bring the needle out through A. Take the needle in through B, and out through C. The points B and C lie diagonally to A, making a triangle position. | Fig 2: Now, take the needle under the stitch A-B, from the right and without plucking the fabric beneath. Next, take the needle under the stitch A-B again. Loop the thread around the needle as shown. Pull the needle out. This makes a Danish Knot. |
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| Fig 3: To finish up, take the needle just outside the loop to anchor the stitch. A Danish Knot looks like this. |
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This is a really pretty stitch and looks to be very simple to do! Thank you for your tutorials!
Hi Actinium, thanks! We wanted to make the website a bit more friendly to all our readers. I hope you enjoy the new version and have fun stitching.
IT”S BACK! I’m so happy. I had just decided I wanted to try out some complicated stitches on my new aida fabric and then I went to this site and it was gone, I had just looked something up a day or two before but when I went to actually use it it was gone. This is the site with the most obscure stitches, categorised in the most practical way, as far as I can find.
The new site looks nice by the way.
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A nice stitch – new for me! Thank you, Sarah!
Hi, Sarah and Rocksea. Today I follow the tutorial for the danish knot, decorating the skirt of Coralia, WIP matryoshka doll.
Greetings from El Salvador.
María Tenorio
Danish knot or detached palestrina stitch
(orange thread)
Hi,
I am not able to upload the pic… 🙁
Hi Sarah,
I liked your site a lot and I can tell you that you are very good teacher. You explains each and every lesson in such a way that even a beginner can master in hand embroidery with in no time. I learned hand embroidery in my school time and then I lost touch.. But not again started it and found your site as the most useful one. Each day I study 2-3types of stiches and try to do it . I have attached the first work I did (not so neat )
Thanks,
Reshmi
sarah plz provide different patterns on your site
Sarah, is danish knot the same as detached palestrina stitch?
Hi Maria,
Yes, you can say Danish stitch is detached Palestrina stitch.
nicely teaching of all emroidery designs
Dear sara, I have learnt so many stitches from your website.thanks for the lovely tutorials.at present I know nearly 75 types of hand embroidery stitches just becoz of you.please continue upload ur good work.thanks
site maravilhoso… indico pra todos que admiram artesanato.
grata por nos ajudar com os tutoriais.
hi sarah can u pls do some other stitches tutorials like zardozi stitch and other as well and which needles are use in these stitches.thanks
All types of stitches is very nice. I very much interested to learn this,Can u help to learn well.
I saw the different types of stitches. Actually I very much interested to learn, mostly I learning by this type of websites. But I want go classes to study this.
Beautiful!
Realy owsm..:-)
Love this stitch! Thanks!