Just to save me having to think and think 
Does anyone have a pattern on hand that will allow me to knit a scarf say in stockinette (any other stitch but cable would be fine) but will give me diagonal āconcaveā lines or troughs through that? There may be some stitches through that but Iād like the majority of the diagonal line to be like a trough.
Thanks in anticipation.
:?? Do you have a picture of what you have in mindā¦?
sue
No. Is my description too vague? I sat fiddling one night in front of the TV and began the basic idea. Perhaps I need to achieve the ālookā I want and then graph it or come back and explain the sort of knit style and see if someone may have a pattern that way. But I certainly want the troughs to be ālowerā if possible that the rest of the knitting. Perhaps I need to garter stitch and then have the diagonals as āknitā sections. I think that would achieve the basic ālookā but Iām just not mad keen on garter necessarily. Depends on the yarn. I doubt a change in needle size alone would achieve it.
I think you can get what you want by doing alternating bands of stockinette stitch and reverse stockinette stitch, but Iām stuck on the diagonal, unless you do it as a diagonal knit. Maybe something like thisā¦ http://www.magknits.com/warm05/patterns/rib.htm or this - http://artyarns.com/newsite/html/E114.htm
sue
A few years ago I knitted a scarf using stockinette and reverse stockinette and it had an undulated effect. Mine was just knitted straight across, not diagonal. I think for a diagonal, I would alternate the stockinette and reverse stockinette within the row and move the pattern over by one stitch in each row, eg., k5, p5. k5, p5 on the first row. The second row, p1, k5, p5, k5, p4, etc. I donāt know how experienced you are, but if you are fairly new to knitting, I think this would be easier than increasing and deceasing at the ends and keeping in pattern.
Does this make sense?
Carolyn
maybe youād like my pattern?
http://rainydayart.blogspot.com
It has diagonal stripes.
Hi ladies. Thanks for the tips. You know the āfur on the biasā is the closest one to what I have in my head.
Hummingbird, thatās a pretty pattern and Iād actually welcome it but in this case I want what cmk is calling the undulating effect. Iām working to finish an item now and then will try that patterning cmk on a couple of different yarn types and see if I can achieve the effect.
Thanks all!
I just CO the āA Scart Askewā from Magknits. Itās for my brother for Christmas. Maybe this is what you are looking for.
Hi Jill, I put that into a google search and didnāt come up with anything.
The fur on a bias oneā¦the second image link offered by suzeeq is the look Iām after - I called it troughs but perhaps hills and valleys might be a better way to describe.
[color=red]This [/color]is the one that Jill is talking aboutā¦ you could just make the furrows in it wider.
five_six. Thank you so much. Looks exactly what I need with, as you say, a slightly extended furrowā¦