Möbius strip knitting

[jwgh]

I've been fiddling around with a method for knitting Möbius strips to see what sorts of interesting things I can do with it.



Because Möbius strips only have one edge, if you switch colors it ends up looking like there are two stripes of the new color. Deceptive!

Anyway, one of the question that comes up for some reason when I tell people I'm knitting a Möbius strip is what I'm going to do with it when I'm done.

Comments

[saucypunk.livejournal.com]

that picture is amazing. while you are making icons, will you make yourself one out of that? please?

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

holy. fucking. hell.

icon!

[annarama.livejournal.com]

awesome!! :D

[donutgirl.livejournal.com]

that's an excellent use.

[urbeatle.livejournal.com]

is it so wrong that I wackyparsed the word "knitting" and thought you were talking about Möbius Kittens for a moment?

[satedkate.livejournal.com]

you did it.

you wrapped it around your face.

ow!

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Kleinbottlebonsaikitten.com!

[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

i agree, that picture totally needs to be an icon.

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

The kitten you can cut in half and have two interlinked kittens!

Also, what happens when you stick one in a box with a decaying radioactive substance that can possibly trigger a hammer that etc.

[jwgh]

I thought of that kitten with two faces and shuddered.

So, like,

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

how do you start this thing, anyhow? Do you just whip the first row onto the circular needle (so there's no spine to it) and then thread the needle through the same loops a second time? Or do you cast on the first row as normal and then thread the needle through the back loops of the cast-on stitches?

Re: So, like,

[jwgh]

Er, it's hard to describe, but it isn't either of those things. Imagine you've got two straight needles. Put a slipknot on one of them and hold the yarn so it's above the needle. Then with the other needle grab the yarn, go down below the first needle and to the other side, grab the yarn again, go back to the other side, grab again, and so on. You end up with a series of stitches which go around both needles. Transfer the technique to a circular needle and you've got the Möbius cast-on.

kewl

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Working forwards and backwards simultaneously is far more elegant than rethreading! Not that I ever knit or even have any needles (though we have PLENTY of yarn in the house after the Wool Festival (http://www.sheepandwool.com/)), but that doesn't stop me from enjoying imaginary tinkering.

[chaos-are-me.livejournal.com]

YES IT IS AROUND YOUR FACE *score*

[jwgh]

Of course!

OR IS

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

HIS FACE AROUND IT?