Sunday Stitch School - Lesson 346: Double Lazy Daisy Stitch

It takes time to learn stitches. With a stitch-a-week tempo, I obviously grow one week older for each stitch. It seems I also grow more forgetful by one week for each stitch I learn.

Today, I have a simple stitch - Double Lazy Daisy Stitch. As you have probably guessed, it consists of two Detached Chain Stitches, one worked outside the other. 

I stumbled across it in a library book, "1000 のステッチ - The Techniques for Over 1000 Stitches EMBROIDERY", a thick book published by Japanese ONDORI. 

What an obvious stitch the Double Lazy Daisy Stitch is! Why had I not included it in my collection before? I rushed home and checked my TAST and my Sunday Stitch School Reference lists - small cards I keep on rings.

 (Impressive, aren't they? 155 TAST and 345 Sunday Stitch School stitches, in total 500!!!)

Among them, there was no Double Lazy Daisy Stitch, nor a Double Detached Chain Stitch. Yet, the stitch looked so familiar... I must have seen it somewhere before.

Happy-go-lucky, I set about making a photo tutorial and a new card to add to the collection on the rings shown above. 

As I was also preparing a new Sunday Stitch School Reference Chart cloth with lines, I added the labels for the first five stitches. 

So there it was, the name already on the chart and on a ring card, a photo tutorial edited, and the blogpost ready to be published... 

And THEN it struck me. I HAVE made this stitch before! WHERE is it? Under WHAT name did I make it? 

With a fine toothcomb, I went over my charts, and finally I found it. 

Double Lazy Daisy Stitch, also goes by the name of BERRY STITCH, 

and it was a TAST stitch I learned while taking part in Sharon Boggon's online stitch initiative in 2012.  You can see my blogpost here.

Oh no, what shall I do? All this work prepared and no good...., but hang on. There is no photo tutorial in the blogpost of 2012!

So the long and the short of it is that I will include this stitch once more, this time with instructions and an alternative, Triple Lazy Daisy Stitch, as you can add a third stitch outside the other two!

Here goes:

or make it a Triple Lazy Daisy Stitch