Fast and easy to memorize, this edging from 1888 Weldon’s Practical Needlework Volume 2 starts with just 6 stitches and there are only 4 pattern rows! Weldon’s didn’t include an image, so the pattern was a surprise! I altered the first header stitch for easier sewing later. This narrow edging can be blocked straight or curved.
Skills needed: cast on, knit, purl, yarn over, double yarn over, k2tog, and bind off in knit stitch.

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

3 yards of #10 crochet cotton will make about 6 4-row repeats or 2.25” unblocked in the stated gauge.