Daisy Stitch

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple and we are going to take a closer look at the Daisy Stitch, which is sometimes called the Marguerite stitch. You can cast on a multiple of six plus three to have it mirrored on either side. Although sometimes I see it as designers saying, cast on a multiple of six. If you're following along with a specific pattern, of course, you want to do what the designer tells you. But for our swatch today, we're doing a multiple of six plus three.

This is a four row repeat and the wrong side rows are simply pearl rows. Now, I am beginning all of my rows with knit three because I wanted a nice smooth edge. So I'm going to knit three, two, three and then here's my repeat. I'm going to do a Daisy stitch and to do a Daisy stitch, I'm going to knit yarn over knit in three stitches together. So I wanna work pretty close to the points of my needles because I'm gonna need some room to dig into three stitches.

At the same time. I'm gonna have my right hand needle. I'm going to go into three stitches as one, I'm going to knit and not pass it off the left hand needle yarn over, bring my yarn between the two needles and over the right hand needle and then knit in those same three stitches again. And now I am going to pass those off the left hand needle. So depending on how you use it, knit yarn over knit can also be used as an increase.

But because we're doing knit yarn over knit in three stitches as one, we neither increase nor decrease. We're taking three stitches and turning them into three different stitches. So let's look at that a little more closely. We're gonna knit 31, two, three and Daisy stitch knit yarn over knit in three stitches as one. Now you'll notice when I'm doing my knit stitches in three, not only am I moving the work closer to the needle tip?

So I have a little more room, I'm making sure when I complete my knit stitches to pull that stitch up and give it some height. Because if you work super close to the tips, your work's gonna be really tight and you want your stitch to have enough room to breathe, you want it to be able to lay flat and not be super wrinkly. So knit yarn over knit in the same three stitches and watch it's a habit. I'm pulling that stitch up to make sure that it's not too small. And then I'm going to knit the last three stitches and on my wrong side, rows, I'm going to pearl back, so I'm going to pearl every stitch across.

So, despite having increases and decreases, we have the same number of stitches that we cast on. There is no change for row three. I'm going to start with knit six. If you prefer to start with a Daisy stitch and not have these stitches on the end, you can certainly do that. My issue with putting a Daisy stitch right on the end of the work is it makes the sides a little irregular and I don't like that look.

So that's why I make sure that I'm beginning with knit three or knit six. Once again, I'm gonna grab these three stitches, knit yarn over knit net, three, one, two, three. So the mechanics of the stitches are the same on both right side rows. The only thing that's different is the placement and we've staggered them if I wanted just columns of Daisy stitches. And I didn't want to stagger the placement.

I would put the Daisy stitches where I wanted them. I would do a pearl row, I would do a knit row. I would do a second pearl row and then I would go ahead and do my Daisy stitches again. That's if I wanted to keep them in a vertical column. One of the ways you can tell though when you're doing the staggered, uh when you're doing the staggered Daisy stitch where you are, if you can see, see it, it's sort of, we, we're all coming out of the center down here and we have sort of a cup going on.

I know that it's time for that stitch to take a knit yarn over knit. If I look at these three stitches right here, they're also coming up out of a center stitch, but look how close they are to the needle. So that's telling me that those stitches want to be knit three. So if you put your work down, you're not 100% sure where you were, you can take a look at your stitch pattern. Really read your knitting and understand where you are.

So my other wrong side row is a pearl back. And when I want to bind off, I want to bind off on the right side. Knit wise. I hope you enjoyed learning this. Staggered Daisy stitch.

It's a lot of fun and gives you a lot of texture. I'm Mary Beth Temple. I'll see you again here real soon.