How to do the Ornate Herringbone Stitch - Sarah’s Hand Embroidery

How to do the Ornate Herringbone Stitch

The Ornate Herringbone Stitch is genuinely decorative. With a simple addition of another stitch, the Lazy Daisy, a simple row of Herringbone Stitch is decked up richly. You can add more to it by slipping in a bead at the anchor of the Lazy Daisies!


Fig 1: Make a row of Herringbone Stitch. .	Fig 2: Next come out with another colored thread at the intersection of the first Herringbone Stitch and work a Lazy Daisy Stitch over it. Work it from the inside to the outside.

Fig 3: Now, move to the next intersection and do the same. Keep working Lazy Daisies this way for the entire row of the Herringbone Stitch.	Fig 4: A finished row would look like this.