This sweet, reversible edging has only 12 stitches to start with and only 4 pattern rows! It took just a couple of hours to knit the sample. This edging is best on a curved item. Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 2 from 1889 had the pattern but no image - so the results were a surprise! I altered a couple of stitches for easier sewing.
Skills needed: long-tail cast on, knit, purl, slip, k2tog, yarn over, yarn over twice 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 size and appearance.

8 yards of #10 cotton thread will make about 13 rows (1 inch) of edging in the stated gauge.