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I was thinking of making this bookmark for my Mom because I'm giving her a "book basket" for her birthday, but I don't know what selvedge stitch is? :shrug:

Stacy

Never mind. I answered my own question!! I tried googling it and didn't find a very difinitive answer, but I dug through some sites and finally found it.

good, I'm glad you found it, could you post what selvedge stitch is on here please??

Ya, what is selvedge stitch? :shrug:

Selvedge comes from "self-edge." It's just an edging of a stitch at the beginning and end of a row to keep it even. Sometimes patterns include them in the stitch count, and sometimes, not.

Selvedge Stitch

It looks like it's meant to make a clean edge, especially if you're going to be doing some sewing.

Stacy

BTW, it's not a stitch per se as in `knit' stitch, `purl' stitch - it's just the stitch on the edge, either knit, purl or slipped.

sue

basically isn't it just a slip stitch? :hmm:

Usually, though some patterns may say to knit the selvedge stitches in garter - k the first and last of every row. Or they may have you do something else entirely.

sue

Yeah. I basically just did a knit stitch on the ends.

Stacy