::cue Hallelujah Chorus in full voice::
My First True Mobius Snood* is complete!
I think I’m addicted to Mobius knitting, even though it is not unlike getting in a car driven by a casual acquaintance and just riding without a map. You cast on, start knitting and just have to trust that you’re going to end up in the right place.
The finished product, "folded" as best as a Mobius Snood can be folded
The sunlight makes this yarn look a bit more blue in this picture, when it is a much more deep purple with a bit of dusky reddish tone.
This picture may help explain what is happening. Heaven knows it took me awhile to catch on…
The yellow line points to the cast on. The blue arrows show the two simultaneous directions that the work flows. The pink line shows the single edge as it wraps around the work.
A closeup look at the pattern shows the detail of the basketweave and the I-Cord bind-off. If you do a Mobius work, since you are knitting something that flows in two directions but is to look like one piece of fabric, it is in your best interest to select a reversable, simple-plan stitch pattern. In other words, STAY AWAY FROM CABLES. Oh, and be careful with lace.
And here I am modeling the finished product. Yes, I need to have my glasses straightened. Also, today is a chemo day, so that is why I look like watered-down paint.
Smiling, for all those people who tell me to smile more in photos.
Not smiling. For me, who doesn't like the way my smile looks in photos
*I always thought that a “snood” was the net head-covering women of the mid-nineteenth century put over their buns and modern women crochet to go over the backs of their hairdos for things like renfaires. But I’m told by many knitting magazines and books that we are now calling these scarf/hat combos “snoods” as well. Probably because “snood” sounds (slightly) better than “babushka”, which is what I think these things look more like. Oh well. I never was much of a fashion person.
Just Another Pretty Farce 
1) That is pretty fantastic.
2) A babushka is a grandmother (in Russian). Or, by extension (by non-Russian speakers), the scarf worn by a pre-Revolutionary Russian grandmother, which was sort of like a bandana, but prettier and sometimes with fringes, folded in half. What an Anglophile like you might call a “headsquare.” In other words, not very much like what you are modeling.
3) What you are modeling is reminiscent of a shawl wrapped around the head, also worn by pre-Revolutionary Russian grandmothers but also by poor, cold women in other 19th and early-20th-century places, and not known as a babushka but as a “shawl wrapped around the head.”
4) No, seriously, that looks like an awesome piece of knitting and also looks good on you.
Knit a thneed next! Everyone needs one, I hear.
Beautiful work. Such an interesting composition. I can’t quite wrap my head around the two flows of stitches, but I can vaguely and foggily grasp how it woudl have to go.
And you are the world’s fastest knitter, lady! Seriously, let those needles cool down or they’re going to ignite something.
*chuckling @ nm’s post*
I agree – beautiful knitting, great color, and what a fun item to wear! That will come in handy on those days when you are shivering. 🙂
Hmm… wonder if there is a similar technique for crochet… or if Möbius lends itself more to knitting?