Star (Daisy) Stitch

The start stitch is particulary gorgeous

I found a great tutorial for this stitch on the bookpeopleestudio blog,star-daisy-stitch/ 

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I’m especially fond of Ishrat Khawja’s star stitch coin purse, which is offered as a free download on Ravelry.

The star stitch requires you to stick your hook into some nonstandard spaces, so I put together a little video tutorial to walk you through it. 

Everyone seems to do this stitch a little differently, so here’s my version. Written instructions appear below.

Multiple for the foundation chain is 2 (basically any even-numbered chain will do)

Row 1: Draw up a loop in the first ch (the one right next to your hook) and the next 4 ch for a total of 6 loops on your hook. YO and draw through all loops on hook to create a star. Ch 1 to secure the star. (Insert hook into the center of the star created by the ch-1 and draw up a loop. Draw up a loop by inserting your hook into the side of fifth loop you drew up in the previous star. Draw up a loop by inserting your hook into the foundation ch in the same ch space you used to draw up the fifth loop on the previous star. Draw up loops in the next two chs in foundation row. This gives you a total of 6 loops on your hook. YO and draw through all loops, and secure the star with a ch-1.) Repeat across till 1 ch remains. Dc in the last ch. Turn, ch 2.

Row 2: Make 2 hdc in the ch-1 spaces from the previous row. Do not hdc in the loop spaces that form the top of the star, only the ch-1 spaces. Make final hdc in the top ch from the previous row. Turn, ch 3.

Row 3: Insert hook into first ch (the one right next to your hook) and draw up a loop; do the same in the next 2 chs and the following two hdc. YO and draw through 6 loops on hook. Ch 1 to secure the star. (Insert hook into the center of the star created by the ch-1 and draw up a loop. Draw up a loop by inserting your hook into the side of fifth loop you drew up in the previous star. Draw up a loop by inserting your hook into the same hdc you used to draw up the fifth loop on the previous star. Draw up loops in the next two hdcs. This gives you a total of 6 loops on your hook. YO and draw through all loops, and secure the star with a ch-1.) Repeat across till 1 hdc remains. Dc in last hdc. Turn, ch 2.

Repeat rows 2 and 3.