In stitches I: the garter stitch

I'm starting a new project, a very simple one, but one that every creative knitter should consider, and many before me have. It consists on making a stitch dictionary of my own. My idea right now is to make swatches of all kinds of different stitches (the ones I'm curious about) and later on sewing them together in a kind of patchwork blanket.
A word on naming stitches: it's needless to say that names are always arbitrary in some sense, so it should not come as a surprise that there is some confusion in the literature about the names of even some of the most common stitches, let us not even discuss the uncommon ones. I think the only stitches that everyone agrees on a single name are probably garter and stockinette. In this series I'll use mostly Barbara G. Walker's "A treasury of knitting patterns" and thus the names used in this book, but I'll also occasionally use other sources and naming conventions.

I begin with the garter stitch, for the sake of completeness, even though I've not much to say about this simple stitch that everyone learns to knit before any other. Garter stitch can be used all on its own, but it is more often than not used in edges in order to keep the fabric from curling, since stockinette, the most commonly used stitch of all, has the undesirable property of doing so. This is because garter stitch does not curl.

Garter stitch flat Knit or purl every row. in the round,  see this post.