Daisy Stitch Video Tutorial
The detached chain stitch, also known as the "lazy daisy" or just "daisy" stitch, is a pretty popular embroidery stitch. It's perfect, of course, for flowers, but can be used in lots of different ways.
Besides working daisy-type flowers with the detached chain stitch, you can also work the stitch as a ground stitch, to fill in parts of embroidery designs where you want a speckled effect, heavier, for example, than seeding. You can create background patterns with detached chain stitches, and play with the stitch in ways to create texture by overlapping stitches, or by "stippling" with them.
It would be interesting to hear from readers about how they have used this stitch in other ways, besides as flowers.
In the meantime, though, you can check out some embroidered flowers that use the detached chain. These embroidered daisies and the pansies on the buttonhole flowers page both make use of this stitch.
I like this example of lazy daisy stitch in action:
As you can see, these aren't daisies, but they come across pretty well with this stitch, I thought! They're worked in two strands of cotton overdyed floss.
Here's the video:
For more video tutorials for hand embroidery, please check out the Video Library of Stitches Index.
Besides working daisy-type flowers with the detached chain stitch, you can also work the stitch as a ground stitch, to fill in parts of embroidery designs where you want a speckled effect, heavier, for example, than seeding. You can create background patterns with detached chain stitches, and play with the stitch in ways to create texture by overlapping stitches, or by "stippling" with them.
It would be interesting to hear from readers about how they have used this stitch in other ways, besides as flowers.
In the meantime, though, you can check out some embroidered flowers that use the detached chain. These embroidered daisies and the pansies on the buttonhole flowers page both make use of this stitch.
I like this example of lazy daisy stitch in action:
As you can see, these aren't daisies, but they come across pretty well with this stitch, I thought! They're worked in two strands of cotton overdyed floss.
Here's the video:
For more video tutorials for hand embroidery, please check out the Video Library of Stitches Index.
Labels: beginner embroidery, Hand embroidery stitches, video tutorials
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Monday, November 13, 2006
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3 Comments:
Excellent. Fantastic idea. It is so clear that it can be grasped by anyone so easily. Great work!!!
I have just discovered - more or less by accident, your video library of stitches. I am incredibly grateful! THank you so much.
Ilene in Maryland
Thanks, this is wonderfully helpful! I'll definitely use your video library in the future.
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