This almost-all-garter-stitch border is from 1898 Butterick’s The Art of Knitting, p.45, no. 58. The pattern is also in Weldon’s Practical Needlework, vol. 5, p.7, so it must’ve been popular. Both sides are nearly identical. The pattern starts with 24 stitches and has 28 pattern rows. Half those rows are almost all “knit across”; the only purl stitches in the entire pattern are used on the second loops of double and triple yarn overs. Don’t worry, there’s only one triple yarn over in 28 rows. There was a very small error on row 24 but, other than that, I didn’t change a stitch in this lovely Victorian edging.
The swatch is 3.5 inches at its widest at gauge.

Skills needed: cast on, slip, knit, purl, YO, double YO, triple YO, k2tog, SK2P and bind off.

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

52 yards of Aunt Lydia’s Classic 10 thread will make 10 inches of Pompadour strip at gauge.