Now that I've finally put up some instructions for the Traveling Stitch/False Decrease, maybe I can also post about some of the things I've been doing with it.
One category I've been exploring is lace, because I always seem to revert to lace. Knitted lace often has lines of decreases, which distort the vertical columns of stitches into emphasized diagonals. Here is a small swatch of a lace diamond pattern, fairly bog-standard except for the cable crosses at the points of the diamonds. The top half of each diamond shape is framed by its decrease lines, while the bottom half grows vertically out of the YO increases.
By using some False Decreases, it's possible to add diagonal framing lines to the lower edges of the diamonds as well. Now they look more symmetrical, and have a nice kind of crispy-edges effect.
Here are charts for both stitch patterns:
They are identical except for the False Decreases. The outlined diamonds end up looking a bit smaller, because the area of stockinette stitch gets more covered up by the diagonals.
