What is your favorite specialty stitch? Which one is your least favorite? Why?

My all-time favorite specialty stitch is a daisy chain. I’ve loved making them since I was a kid and first learned to embroider. Single daisy stitches are fun, too, but those chains are just so totally cool, especially when I manage to get all the links the same size!

My least favorite stitch? Don’t know if this really qualifies, but I have a love/hate relationship with French knots. I love them, really I do, but I so often have them flopping to one side or the other that I regularly replace them with beads. However, I’ve since learned how to do a different knot, I think it’s a continental knot. The finished knot looks a lot like a French knot, but it’s easier to for me to get consistent results with it.