This “stitch” or fabric was engineered to cause the work to naturally fold into the geometric folds or pleats seen on recently popular scarves and throws. Though it exhibits a good amount of depth or shaping, it is knitted completely flat. It is actually diamond-shaped tiles of garter stitch and moss stitch joined together with a “Y” formed by ...

This pattern is the result of an effort to reproduce the effect of the heat-set geometric pleating found in popular scarves and shawls. It produces a horizontal pleating that stretches in the vertical direction.