I’ve been experimenting with a few stitches that I’ve not tried before - there are so many different stitches.

Tulip stitch is so called as it is meant to look like a tulip flower (I think it looks more like a flower bud!).

When I was designing my free tulip pattern earlier in the year, I considered trying to come up with a design to use tulip stitch but in the end went in a different direction.

It’s based on a lazy daisy (or single chain) stitch, so if you are familiar with these, then this stitch just needs one extra element.

• Create the lazy daisy stitch

• At the bottom of the lazy daisy stitch add a small straight stitch, this will be the stem of the tulip so can be a little bit longer than the straight stitch normally used in a lazy daisy stitch

• To create the leaf element, bring the needle up through the fabric to one side of the tulip

• Pass the needle underneath the ‘stem’ but don’t pierce the fabric

• Take the needle down through the fabric to the other side of the tulip as symmetrically as you can.

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