Learn How to Embroider a Daisy With This Free Embroidery Pattern

To make this stitch, make a few straight stitches that slightly fan out along the petal. Don’t worry about getting them super close to one another. It’s easiest to make a few evenly spaced out across the shape first before you fill the rest in.

Fill in the rest of the petal with more satin stitches. I like to add more volume to the petals so I don’t worry too much about laying the stitches super neatly next to one another. I add some extra stitches that overlap on top of the other stitches.

After you’ve filled in the petal, carefully place your needle underneath the stitches and fluff them up.

Repeat for all of the petals on the daisy.

To fill in the center, begin making a circle of chain stitches using the lighter yellow color. To make a chain stitch: come up through the fabric with needle and thread. Then place your needle back down the hole you came up through.

Gently pull the working thread through, leaving a loop. Proceed one stitch length ahead and place your needle back up through the fabric, catching the loop with your needle.

Pull the thread tight. A loop should form.

Repeat the process, going back down through the loop.

Skip a stitch length ahead, then catch the loop with your needle.

Make chain stitches all the way around in a circle. Once you have gotten a stitch length away from the first stitch, place your needle underneath the first loop.

Pull the thread through and place your needle down through the last chain stitch. This will neatly finish the circle of chain stitches so there is no visible anchor stitch.

Make French knots in the very center of the daisy using the darker yellow thread. Twist the thread around the needle 3 times, keeping the tip of the needle close to the fabric.

Pull the thread tight and place your needle back down directly beside where you came up. Pull the thread through and a small knot will form.

Repeat until you have filled in the center of the flower.

Add one or two straight stitches running from the base of the petal to about halfway up the petal using 2 strands of pink.

Repeat for all of the petals.

Once you’ve stitched all of the open flowers, it’s time to stitch the leaves.

Being with the smaller, rounded leaves. Using 3 strands of medium green, make a single straight stitch from the tip of the leaf to the top of the center line.

Begin filling in the right side of the leaf with satin stitches that run at a diagonal.

Fill in the whole right side.

Repeat for the other side of the leaf. These stitches should run at the opposite diagonal so the sides of the stitches meet in the middle to form a “v”.

Fill in all of the small rounded leaves this way.

The longer leaves use the split stitch. Use 3 strands of light green. To make this stitch, begin by making a single straight stitch.

Place you needle up through the center of the stitch, splitting it.

Continue on down the line; repeat the first straight stitch again, then split the stitch with your needle.

Outline the entire shape this way. Then fill in the rest of the shape by making rows of split stitches.

Repeat for all of the long leaves.

Split stitch along the lines of the stems using 2 strands of dark green thread. These stitches can overlap into the bottom 1/3 of each leaf.

Stitch along all of the stems.

Stitch the 3 small petals pictured with satin stitches using off white.

Fill in the rest of the petals with satin stitches using white thread.

Fill in the base of the flower with satin stitches using light green. These stitches can slightly overlap into the petals.

The little flower bud also uses the satin stitch. Fill in the top half of the flower bud with off white thread and the bottom half with light green thread.