Knit stitch for a jersey

I have a nice pattern for a jersey I've just started, but have realised the open holes of the fabric are not quite what I want. I'm looking for a smallish decorative textured sort of pattern for the fabric of the jersey, to knit with the pattern I have, if you see what I mean. Any nice ideas? I've been sitting knitting a square using other patterns, but can't quite find what I want.

This one gives a good "thickness" and its just a variation on stocking stitch.
Row 1 - knit
Row 2 - Knit
Row 3 - knit 1 , ( knit one into the stitch underneath, knit one) repeat to last stitch, K1
Row 4 - Knit
Row 5 - knit 2 , ( knit one into the stitch underneath, knit one) repeat to last stitch, K1

Last four rows are the pattern. Knit a 20 stitch square and see if you like it!

I can't say I'm familiar with knitting into the stitch underneath. Would you care to expand?

Yep!
Instead of knitting as you would, into the loop going over the needle, put your needle into the stitch underneath (that the loop is coming out of) and knit that instead. You end up with two bits of yarn going over the right needle. It's something that any one can do sometimes as a mistake when knitting fast or in the dark.

newstitchaday.com/bee-stitch/

And an error to my original post - ALL ROWS are KNIT so I'm going to edit it, OK?

That is a very cool site, thank you!

That is a cool site. Thanks Megan. I tried to find a site to show various stitches too but this is heaps better.

My most favourite jersey was a variation of fisherman's rib stitch. Really easy. Knit two, purl two, but the trick is to knit with an uneven number of stitches. That way, every time you change sides, you are reversing every second stitch.
NB This is not the same fisherman's rib that is traditional and can be found on the internet. Those require purl 1, knit 1 stitch below which is not half as interesting.

I knitted moss stitch for a while, but decided it was too dense a pattern for what I wanted, so now I'm just doing a straight stocking stitch - at least I'll test how good my knitting actually is, in terms of even tension.

Even straight stitches can be made fancy easily by adding a simple cable.

or take a varigated thread and knit one stitch of varigated every 10 stitches, starting at stitch 5 every second row

Ruth, do you know about www.ravelry.com ? millions of patterns, stitches and yarn