Elongated Rib Check

I'm all out of sorts, I hope this is where I left off. I knitted this a few months ago, but forgot to post it. (At least I think I forgot to post it.)

Barb says this a a variant of Double Seed Stitch, and it is the same pattern on both sides. I love anything that is the same on both sides because it allows for reversible things. So I think this would be lovely as a scarf or a hat. I would like to also have a pair of reversible mittens, but I don't think I could finish it off in such a way that one of the sides wouldn't be "the bad side."

I think the stitch looks a little smock-like. It was pretty simple to knit, so anywhere you might like the look of smocking (the top of a baby-doll dress perhaps?), you could use this stitch instead.

There is a variation of this, but I didn't knit the swatch. (At least I can't find the swatch to scan in.) But it looks like from the book that it would look even more smock-like, since there is a garter ridge separating the rows of check