Stripes needlepoint patterns

Stripes of many kinds: awning, cabana, ticking, seersucker, pinstripe, rugby, Breton and candy cane.

Most are four-inch squares on 18 mesh that repeat, so they can be carried on to any size; the rest are belts, key fobs and stockings. A stripe is about as easy as a counted design gets: straight lines that show a miscount at once. Most use two or three colors, most are marked beginner, and most come in several sets of colors.