Moebius scarf questions - Page 2

> Ok so you knit in a 8 form doubled over ,,,,, the number of your
> stiches is than 300 and not 150 , since the moebioes has only one
> edge that coils around ,,,
> You should work yourown gugaue and work with a feeling of the thread
> and needle matching each other , it should not be a net , nore a
> Wooden plank ,,,,,,,

>> Ok so you knit in a 8 form doubled over ,,,,, the number of your
>> stiches is than 300 and not 150 , since the moebioes has only one
>> edge that coils around ,,,
>> You should work yourown gugaue and work with a feeling of the thread
>> and needle matching each other , it should not be a net , nore a
>> Wooden plank ,,,,,,,
>
> So it's supposed to be a dense and jacket-like weight? The only one I've
> ever seen in a boutique was more airy and net-like--I'm imagining now it
> must have been knitted on #15 or #17 needles (bigger than 10mm).

>> Ok so you knit in a 8 form doubled over ,,,,, the number of your
>> stiches is than 300 and not 150 , since the moebioes has only one
>> edge that coils around ,,,
>> You should work yourown gugaue and work with a feeling of the thread
>> and needle matching each other , it should not be a net , nore a
>> Wooden plank ,,,,,,,
>So it's supposed to be a dense and jacket-like weight? The only one I've
>ever seen in a boutique was more airy and net-like--I'm imagining now it
>must have been knitted on #15 or #17 needles (bigger than 10mm).
>Georgia

>A Moebious scarf must be long enough so you can wera it over ytour
>shoulders as a scarf , or wear over your neck turn it and piut a part
>of it over your head as hat ,, this requires minus plus 150 cm / 59
>inches .
>I didn`t understand from your description if you make it in one piece,
>If you do it in oine piece you must start in the middle and have
>stiches BOTH sides of the middle line.
>A 150 stiches , look not enough to me in this case,,,,
>it might be that you haven`t casted on the other side and thus you
>have only half the stitches ????????????
>mirjam
>> The moebius scarf I made, I cast on 150 stitches and used a size
>>10US circular needle. ( I used a specialty yarn on mine and the
>>larger needles made the stitches more open and lacy). I just measured
>>it and it's 42 inches around.
>>HTH Marie and the cats
>>Georgia wrote:
>>> Has someone in this crowd of accomplished knitters made a Moebius scarf? I
>>> finally got one started, following directions I got online, and it's coming
>>> out awfully small--more like a Moebius strait-jacket!
>>> Directions called for casting on 150 sts, to be knit at 5 sts/inch. That's
>>> 30 linear inches, right? I should have been suspicious right there. Well, I
>>> can't follow directions (intellectually capable, just not emotionally
>>> capable of it), so I am trying to knit the yarn at 4.25 sts/inch. (It said
>>> it wanted to be knit at 5 sts/inch on US. #7s; I had #8, which gave me a
>>> gauge of 4.25, and I wouldn't have wanted it any tighter.) Anyway, I didn't
>>> want it to be too big, so I did the math (130/4.25 = 30.xx) and cast on 130
>>> stitches. After 5 rounds it just seemed like it wasn't going to be big
>>> enough, so I moved all 260 sts to a string and tried it on. Surprise,
>>> surprise, I can get it around my shoulders, but it's way tight. Now I am not
>>> a large woman (under 130 lbs), so my question is--is it supposed to fit this
>>> way? Is it somehow going to get larger in diameter (I don't think so!)? Is
>>> there something wrong with these instructions:
>>> http://www.planetshoup.com/easy/knit/scarfmb.shtml
>>> Is there a fix, or am I going to rip this out and start over--maybe with 150
>>> sts at 4.25, or maybe with bigger needles and whatever gauge gets me
>>> something closer to 35 inches?
>>>
>>> Georgia
>>>
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>>> http://georgiamorgan.net