This no-name, no-image pattern from ca. 1875 The Lady’s Book of Knitting and Crochet, p.91, has an 8-stitch, 6-row repeat. The 3 wrong-side rows are all the same. It takes about 1 hour to knit 3 inches of a 42-stitch-wide swatch.

Skills needed: cast on, slip, knit, purl, yarn over, SSK, k2tog, p2tog and bind off in knit stitch.

Gauge is not important in this pattern. Any block-able yarn/thread will work. Make a swatch to check gauge and appearance.

90 yards of #10 crochet thread will make 10 inches of a 42-stitch-wide strip in the stated gauge.