Step 1: Exit your needle where you’d like the french knot to go.

Step 2: Hold your needle close to the exit point, and behind your thread.

Step 3: With your other hand, wrap the thread around the needle 2-3 times (wrapping away from you).

Step 4: Insert the needle back into the fabric, right next to your exit hole (but not exactly through the same hole); and exit wherever you'd like your next stitch to be.

Step 5: Pull the needle and thread slowly out, making sure it doesn't get tangled; pull tight until the knot is secure.

 

~Kristal Norton

Kim, it will help if you loosely put your finger OVER the knot as you pull in Step 5. You need to keep pressure on the knot.

I have done just like the instructions but it don't make a knot and be pulled out easily.