Quote Originally Posted by Alan H View Post
If you did a herringbone where you caught just a few threads on each pass on the "outside" of the kilt, it would work the same, but Barb is right, the herringbone has more flexibility to it than a straight blind stitch. I usually do a "canted blind stitch", which is a term I just made to suggest that the stitch isn't straight across, it's "tilted".
When you do a herringbone for a hem or a catch stitch, you do just catch a thread or two on the "outside" if the kilt.