Note on knitting multicolored Möbius strips

[jwgh]

Nothing too complicated will work right, as intarsia and other such techniques will result in much ugliness (because they assume the thing being knitted is orientable).

If you want big rectangular blocks of color, your basic problem will be getting the yarn of the desired color to the desired corner of the rectangle at the beginning of a row -- it will be in the exact opposite corner from where you want it to be.

Disappointingly, your best choice is probably to knit the rectangles separately and then sew everything together.

Comments

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Maybe you need to knit it in four dimensions and then smooth it out after you're done?

[twillis.livejournal.com]

When I do intarsia in the round, I do a direction reverse and purl around to the other side. Results are semi-satisfactory, but I don't know if it would solve the mobius problem.

How about

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

using two threads of each color, and then reversing direction every row so you can pick up each thread right where it left off?

Also

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

my wife was grumbling yesterday about how her knitter friends have such an air of superiority over crocheters, and I have to say that words like "intarsia" don't help their case any.

Re: Also

[jwgh]

It is true that crocheters are an oppressed minority in the yarn-based crafting community. Their day will come.

Re: Also

[(Anonymous)]

Are you talking about the WAR AGAINST CROCHET!!!!