I like this diagonal version of Beaty Stitch. It’s great for backgrounds. One neat way to use it is where you want to have the feeling of an interior wall, but not the exact look of wallpaper.
Diagonal Beaty, below, is one of those stitches that looks far more complicated than it is. Along each of the stripes, Long stitches (over 3 intersections) face short stitches (over two intersections). The stitches are in pairs and alternate. Make the stitches for one side of each stripe, then the matching side of the column.
You can, but you don’t have to, line up the stitches by starting each column with the same sequence of stitches. If you do this, match the stitches along a straight line.
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