TAST Challenge week 7 - Detached chain stitch

 

Detached-chain stitch or lazy-daisy stitch is the stitch that first brought me to Pintangle and introduced me to the TAST challenge! I was originally looking for a way to decorate a felt elephant reminiscent of the painted elephants of India.

So as you can see I am fairly familiar with making flower shapes with this stitch but hadn't explored much beyond that.

So here is my sample of detached chain stitch...

 

I did a few more flowers to get warmed up to the stitch....

and then started creating some different shapes...

I like the shape created by these stitches - the area bounded by the chains is interesting. I think I'd like to do some work with stronger contrast colours making geometric patterns. We'll see what happens...

As I'm so late posting, here are Sharon B's highlights.