Cool stitch patterns for circulars?

I’m making a yoga mat bag for a friend of mine (a man) and have been following the pattern using the stockinette stitch. I’d like to start over using a more funky pattern 'cause I get a bit bored with stockinette over and over again. Because this is for a guy, I don’t want to anything “girly,” so I need something manly or unisex. I also started a scarf for our dept holiday grab bag using a stitch pattern I am really liking. It goes like this:

Row 1: Knit the first and last stitches. The rest is S1, K1, PSSO but knit into back of the loop before taking the stitch off the needle.
Row 2: P2TOG and purl into the first of the 2 stitches before taking off needle.
Then repeat the two rows until finished.

It makes a nifty zig-zag as you go along and I can’t figure out how to work in on circulars. Is there a way to make the purl row in knit? A way to get the stitches to slant to the right?

There was another nice pattern called Turkish, which essentially working a K2tog, yo for every row and again, I can’t figure out how to convert that to circular, if it even is possible. Any ideas??

Otherwise I’m going to be stuck continuing as I am (which doesn’t look bad, just a bit ordinary) or doing a seed stitch, moss, Irish moss, etc. Is there any hope???

Thanks!!!

Sorry, I wish I could help, but I have never knit circluar before. I reccomend knitting for dummies. It talks about circular knitting and different stitches. I hope this helps. Best wishes in future knitting! :slight_smile:

I think you need one more or one less stitch to do those net like ones in the round. And your beginning of the row may shift back and forth. Here’s a Turkish stitch bag, http://tiajudy.com/stringbag.htm and another turkish stitch here http://www.knittingfool.com/pages/stCatalog2.cfm?StitchID=763&name=Turkish%20Faggoting&numofst=Even%20number%20of%20stitches&stplus=0&rows=1&rplus=0&sym=0