A twill weave makes a thick sturdy fabric with a prounced wrong and right side. An even sided twill is called herringbone. I spent most of yesterday screaming trying to learn how to knit the herringbone pattern. I want to make the fabric for Tracy Ullmans and Mel Clarks doctors bag.
The directions to knit this stitch pattern are below, supposedly they produce a fabric which looks like the bag in the photo.
Row 1 k2 *slip 2 wyif, K2* repeat between stars till end
Row2 P1 *slip2wyib p2* repeat P1
Row3 slip2wyif *K2 slip2 wyif * repeat
Row4 P3 * slip2 wyib P2* repeat till last 3 stitches slip2 wyib P1.
It took me almost all day to decide that no matter how many other instructions I found, using google and tried to follow there was no way I was going to produce a fabric that looks like the one in that photo. Eventually I stumbled across this tutorial. It was easy to follow. In no time I was knitting a herringbone fabric similar to commercially available cloth. 
I know it looks nothing like the fabric in the bag photo above but it is thick and sturdy and will make a good substitute. Best of all I only need to use one strand of yarn instead of the double strand called for in the pattern.
There was a time, during the hours I spent struggling with the incomprehensible stitch pattern, when I thought I should just felt an old sweater instead, use it to make the bag. But a desire to succeed, sort of, kept me going and besides I needed to find a use for this yarn.
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