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 have chances to learn the technique of shortrowing:
www.strickrausch de
or join the group Swing-knitting on Ravelry and study the written tutorials from Heidrun