Deutsch im Stricktagebuch vom 23. Okt. 2011.
My brother-in-law is a more serious type. So I was looking for a scarf pattern which is looking a little decent. What comes nearer as some conservative bias stripes? ;-)

I cannot describe the pattern because I knitted this very intuitive. But you may want to learn the technique of shortrowing:
Join the group Swing-knitting on Ravelry and study the written tutorials from Heidrun