The pattern is available here after you join TKGA.org for $35 per year, possibly the best deal in the knitting world.

When I met Jonathan Berner, the dyer and owner of MJ Yarns, at a Men’s Knitting Retreat last February, I asked him what kinds of yarns he dyed. He pulled out a skein of his Pure Alpaca Worsted, and I immediately fell in love with it. Since he said I needed to use a slip-stitch pattern to counteract alpaca’s tendency to stretch and sag, I started experimenting with simple slip-stitch designs. I didn’t want anything too complicated as the focus was intended to be the bands of beautiful color. I settled on a simple “slip every 7th stitch” pattern; and by staggering the rows just right, it showed just a bit of texture. I didn’t notice it at first, but eventually I saw the faint diagonals of texture moving across the bands of color. Since the diagonals seem to appear and disappear depending on the light and angle of viewing, I decided to call the stitch pattern “Phantom Diagonals.” It probably has many other names as well. The color bands I selected are independent of the stitch pattern, adding just enough variation of widths and color changes to prevent it from appearing as just simple stripes.