Detached Chain Stitch

Continuing to make progress in my "Catch-up-over-the-Summer-Break" challenge, here is the seventh featured stitch from the year-long Take a Stitch Tuesday Challenge being hosted by SharonB (click here for her Pintangle website).  This is the Detached Chain Stitch (click here for the original challenge post).

The Detached Chain Stitch reminds me of the lazy daisy stitch that I learned as a young girl (after researching a bit, I discovered this stitch is listed by both names!)  As I have made many lazy daisy's years ago, for this challenge I am creating a many-petaled flower, reminiscent of the mums worn during Homecoming Football games (yes, I am calling up high school memories!). This flower was fun to stitch - hard to stop stitching, once I began.  Hence my flower kept growing and growing.  But as I recall those football mums did run to extra-large sizes (especially for Homecoming!).




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