How to Embroider Beautiful Lazy Daisy Flowers on Knits

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How to Embroider Beautiful Lazy Daisy Flowers on Knits

This friendly step-by-step guide shows you how to embroider simple lazy daisy flowers onto knitted fabric using just a tapestry needle and two yarn colors. Based on the video Flower Embroidery for Knits, it walks you through threading the needle, stitching petals, and finishing with a French knot center.

Perfect for beginners, this tutorial helps you personalize sweaters, hats, or scarves through easy embroidery on knits.

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Table of Contents
  1. Add a Personal Touch: Why Embroider Your Knits?
  2. Gather Your Simple Supplies
  3. Step-by-Step: The Lazy Daisy Petal
  4. Building Your Flower: Adding More Petals
  5. The Perfect Center: Mastering the French Knot
  6. Embrace the Charm of Imperfection

Personalizing your knits can be as easy as a few loops of yarn. In this walkthrough companion, we follow the simple yet beautiful technique of stitching lazy daisy flowers with a French knot center—proof that beginner embroidery and cozy knitwear are a perfect pair.

A close-up of three white and yellow embroidered daisy flowers on knitted fabric.
The finished lazy daisy flowers add a charming handmade embellishment to any knitted item.

Add a Personal Touch: Why Embroider Your Knits?

Embroidery brings warmth, story, and dimension to even the simplest hand-knit or store-bought piece. With just two yarn colors, you can turn plain stockinette into wearable artwork. There’s no need for a high-end embroidery setup or specialized machines—though those who love modern equipment might appreciate how systems like magnetic hoops for embroidery machines can hold fabric without distortion when practicing stitches on separate swatches.

Gather Your Simple Supplies

You’ll need a swatch or finished knit in stockinette, yarn in two matching weights (one for petals, one for the center), and a trusty tapestry needle. A pair of scissors will tidy the yarn tails when you’re done.

Hands threading a tapestry needle with white yarn over knitted fabric.
Thread the tapestry needle with the chosen petal color yarn.

Choosing Your Yarn

The yarn should match the gauge of your knitted piece. Too thin, and the design sinks into the fabric; too thick, and it may stiffen the surface. Feel free to experiment—contrast helps the petals pop. If you prefer organized storage, lightweight embroidery hoops magnetic frames can help stretch small swatches gently while you work.

The Right Needle for the Job

A blunt-tipped tapestry needle glides through knitted stitches without splitting fibers. Select a size that fits both yarn and hand comfortably.

Step-by-Step: The Lazy Daisy Petal

Starting the Stitch

Thread your needle with petal-colored yarn. Bring it up from the back at the chosen flower center. Leave a short tail on the back to weave in later.

Needle emerging from knitted fabric center point.
Bring the needle up from the back of the fabric at the flower’s center point.

Forming the Loop

Insert the needle back down into the same hole, then bring it up at the distance where you want the petal tip to be. Keep the working yarn under the needle tip so it catches and forms a neat loop.

Needle reinserted into center hole and coming up at petal tip.
Insert the needle back into the same hole and bring the tip up where the petal ends.

Securing Your Petal

Pull through until the loop lies gently on the surface without tightening too much. Insert the needle just above the loop end—about one yarn bar away—and anchor it with a small stitch.

Yarn loop forming around needle for lazy daisy stitch.
Form a loop under the needle to create the lazy daisy petal shape.
Needle securing loop end with tiny stitch.
Secure the petal with a small anchor stitch one bar away from the loop end.

You’ve just completed your first lazy daisy petal!

A single completed embroidered petal.
The first petal should form a neat loop anchored to the knit surface.

For knit fabrics, make sure the anchor stitch grabs both top and bottom loops so it sits firmly. To prevent puckering, consider using a stabilizing frame such as the compact babylock magnetic hoops when working practice pieces.

Building Your Flower: Adding More Petals

Return to the center point and repeat the same motion for each petal. The tutorial example uses five petals, evenly spaced, but you can choose six or seven for fuller blooms.

Second petal being stitched beside the first.
Repeat the lazy daisy stitch to form more petals around the center.

Move around the circle, completing one loop at a time.

Three completed petals with the fourth in progress.
Continue stitching until your circle of petals is complete.

If your yarn begins to fray, trim and rethread it. Avoid pulling too tight at the center—soft loops keep the daisy airy. After the last petal, tie off the working yarn neatly on the backside.

Finished petal stage ready for center knot.
Once all petals are complete, secure the yarn on the back before starting the center.
💡 Practicing on a small surface held in a magnetic embroidery hoop embroidery frame can help maintain consistent tension if you tend to pull firmly.

The Perfect Center: Mastering the French Knot

French knots add delightful texture. Switch to your second yarn color and thread the tapestry needle.

Needle threaded with yellow yarn for flower center.
Switch to a contrasting yarn color for the French knot center.

Wrapping the Yarn

Bring the needle up through the middle of the flower, then hold it horizontally over your working yarn. Wrap the yarn around the needle three times for a visible, well-formed knot.

Yellow yarn wrapped three times around needle.
Wrap the yarn three times around the needle to form the French knot.

Maintain gentle tension with your thumb at the base of the wraps. This control ensures the wraps coil neatly rather than slipping loose.

Thumb holds wrapped yarn for French knot tension.
Keep tension on the working yarn while inserting the needle back near the same hole.

Creating the Knot

Insert the needle back into the fabric very close to—but not exactly in—the same hole. Pull through slowly, letting the wraps tighten into a tidy knot sitting atop the petals.

French knot forming at flower center.
Pull the yarn through to tighten the wraps into a small, textured knot.
✅ Your knot should rest raised and defined at the flower center. The video wraps three times, balancing bulk with neatness. If you pull too firmly, the knot may vanish through the fabric surface.

For those exploring mechanical embroidery projects, the concept of tension mirrors how a machine frame operates. As an optional technical curiosity, look into brother embroidery machine accessories or how janome embroidery machine users stabilize lighter knits for detailed motifs.

Embrace the Charm of Imperfection

The instructor closes by encouraging individuality: not every flower must be perfectly symmetrical. Small variances create a hand-touched, natural look.

Multiple completed embroidered daisies on knitted fabric.
A final view of multiple embroidered flowers adding lively personality to fabric.

Remember that slight inconsistencies become part of the story of handwork. Each loop and knot records your rhythm—no automated tool or magnetic embroidery hoop for brother pr1055x could replicate that exact charm.

In the end, when you scatter these daisies across a sweater hem or mitten cuff, you’ll discover that embroidery on knits celebrates patience, texture, and the joy of slow craft. Whether you hand sew or experiment with magnetic-frame embroidery setups like barudan embroidery machine hoops, the essence remains: creativity stitched in every loop.