Take a Stitch Tuesday -- French Knots

The Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge for this week is to use french knots with other stitches of the week. First, I want to show some examples of french knots or colonial knots used on their own. These examples include a free hand chalice with the flame filled in with french knots:

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A french knot bee in the middle of a Lori Birminghan needleroll. Showing how french knots look stitched on a grid -- I think that they make the body of the bee three dimensional and similar to the fuzzy bees that fly around the flowers in my garden. If I stitched it again, I would do the wings differently, maybe in satin stitch to change the texture and dimension.
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Colonial knot rows from Eileen Bennett's Garden Sampler -- more on the grid stitching. The three dimensional knots look like small flowers or buds and the use of more than one color of thread adds interest to the rows.