Also known as: Detached chain stitch
This is often used to give petal designs and small floral patterns. It consists of a single loop of chain than the continuous pattern. Lazy daisy is one of the extremely easy stitches. This stitch need not be limited to just petals and leaves, but can be used for more complicated designs too.
To assist our lessons, I will be making a floral motiff. For that, I have made a focal point by marking a small ring as my stitch line. My stitches will begin at the edge of this ring. Note that I have used a multicolored thread and not threads of various colors to demonstrate this stitch.
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| Fig 1: Bring the thread out through A. Put in the needle near A and bring it out through the point B, but don’t pull the needle out completely. Now, loop the thread around the needle, like we would in chain stitch. |
Fig 2: Pull out the needle out to tighten the loop. Put in the needle just outside the chain created and that will finish the lazy daisy stitch. |
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| Fig 3: This stand alone stitch can be used freely to be a part of any design. Since I have decided to make a flower, I will proceed with making multiple lazy daisies around the marked stitch line. | Fig 4: The completed flower made of multiple lazy daisies. |
Note:
Lazy daisy can be given a more filling effect by making layers of lazy daisies too. For that, you may do a lazy daisy stitch within a lazy daisy.
Tags: detached chain stitch, embroidery tutorial, hand embroidery tutorials, lazy daisy
so why lazy daisy? cuz of easy and petal like stitch? who coins these names??!
oh chetta, I have also wondered why this stitch is named thus. Through my research I found out that the honest name of this stitch is ‘detached chain stitch’. This is because it can stand alone as a single loop unlike the other chain stitch family members that always link to each other.
Since these loops can be used to create floral patterns that resemble a daisy flower, it must have got more popular with the name ‘lazy daisy’.
aww….this is so pretty…
i should say your stitching lessons are getting more interesting in every post….m loving it Jubs…:D
Thanks Marlin dear!
A work appreciated is worth the effort put into it.
molae, i think it gives a feeling that you used different threads, cuz of the different colors. probably you should mention that you used just one varying color thread.
I will give a note to clarify the confusion. But along the way, let us also know that this flower can be made with lazy daisy loops using threads of different colors to create colorful effects.
lovely handmade arts and interesting site!~i’m doing some embroidery these days using ribbons:)
i’ll back to ur site again and learn more about embroidery!thanx sarah my dear teacher:):)
Hey Lena, interesting to know that you are into ribbon emroidery. It has been my interest to do it some time in future.
Thanks for refering our site to learn. I hope it helps. I see that you are from china…maybe we can share some information on chinese embroidery sometime? 
Hi,
Nice to see ur work..
I am also very much interested in the hand embroidery… I am Software Engineer by profession but very much intersted in embroidery.
Dear Mini,
It is easy for me to miss out on replying to certain messages…somethign liek what happened to yours.
We recently had a baby and had been busy with tending the family for some time.
I am glad that you found interest in embrodiery.Hope our pages help you. I am back to adding more stitches on a weekly basis… enjoy experimenting with them.
Hello! I would like to include a link to your website for this tutorial and wanted to ask your permission before I did that. I’m a knitwear designer and have recently created a pattern that uses this stitch in finishing. You do very beautiful work and I feel this page would be helpful to my customers. Please let me know.
Thanks!
Dear Elizabeth,
Sure, you can include a link to our website. I am glad that you found the tutorial good and will only be glad that it helps your customers.
i found this website very useful fr my project !!! great effort
Dear Nivedita,
I am glad that our tutroial has helped your project. If it was some stitching done, woudl you like to upload a picture using the function below the comment box? We would be happy to have a look at it.
ANO YAN
Hey
This is reaaaaaaaaaaally great…..thanks dear
u r doin an awesome work mam…am totally new to embroidery world.. and ur site has helped me a lot to learn things in an easy and a clear manner…:)
thank u …
Thanks so very much for the excellent instructions! I expected to try this a gazillion times before I got it right but with your help, I did it correctly on the first try! I just finished hand sewing my first skirt ever and my husband said that I should add something to make it look a little more handmade because it looks store-bought. I took that as a compliment, even though I greatly prefer the homemade look to anything purchased in a store. This is just what I needed and your instructions are crystal clear. Thanks again!
Dear Margarita,
Thanks.
It is just an honor to read your comment. We feel very happy that our students find our pages easy to follow and learn from, and appreciate our efforts.
If it is ever possible with you, do try to share your embroidery work with us, by scanning and uploading it using the function just below our comment section. It will be an inspiration to others as well.
c onheci seu site através de um aqui do Brasil (coisas que gosto) parece tudo tão simples com voce ensinando faço patchwork, dolls, e apliquee em tecido e gosto de bordar tb e seus ensinamentos são simples e muito uteis sempre consulto seus tutoriais obrigada namastê
Dear Cidinha,
Muito obrigado. Feliz em saber que você estar se referindo nossos tutoriais.
Thanks, me bahut time se ye stich sikhna cahati thi.
Sara
Congratulations for the arrival of new born.
Some of my samples of lazy daisy with beads are here.
http://shamiatcraft.blogspot.in/2012/02/tast-2012-week-7-detached-chain.html
Thank you Shami.
Don’t be surprised if you see me replying to you so often late.
Your work is nice. You have used the cheveron stitch nicely too.
Sara,
I have embroidered a wall hanging. It is going to be gifted to one of our friend. I like to do lazy daisy flowers. That’s I have selected this design. I have posted the finished piece in my blog. Have a look. the link is
Dear shami,
Thanks for sharing the link. I finally am able to comment in your pages!!
Thanks for sharing. It looks not very difficult.
Dearest Sarah,
All i can say is ‘God bless you’ for this site. You are just absolutely AMAZING. I have been on your site for two days reading everything you’ve ever posted. keep up the good work.
Dear Sarah,
Even though u used multicolored thread for the lazy daisy, can i still use threads of various colors too for the same pattern?
Of course you can use threads of different colors for this pattern. Just that, you will have to do each lazy daisy of a different color at a time.
hey sara i just happened to see ur work and must say its fabulous… didnt even think of so many stiches and the most important of all is the way u hav demonstrated them… clear pictures wid easy steps .. all on one page which many tutorial lack…. they make their tutorials boring by placing each pic on a different page and one is just fed up while waiting for the page to show up!!!
while urs is quite elaborate with good description of each step…
thumbs up… for the gud work…
and yess plzzzzzzzz add a tutorial for crochet …like i said i have seen many and they all lack lucidity…waiting for ur reply….keep up the gud work.
Really appreciate ur hard work..jst came across the site n can sit without appreciating it..very clear pics n steps to follow..i tried som for the first time in my life!!!!!