24-hour mobeus scarf

So, last night I started this scarf. Tonight I finished it. It is a mobeus scarf -- only one side. Mobeus strips made from paper never impressed me as a kid, but this was truly mindbending to make ... trying to figure out what was going on taxed my poor little brain cells to the utmost.



Edit, came back and added this picture of the scarf after blocking and drying. It has a tendency to curl, but not nearly as bad as before blocking.

Pattern for Mobeus Scarf

Yarn: Cascade Pastaza, hand dyed by hollyk603.
Gauge: That's the great thing about scarves, it doesn't much matter. (For reference, I think it ended up about 3.5 stitches per inch on size 8.
Needles: Circular needle at least 36 inches long (in this case a size 8).

• Cast-on stitches to make around 34 to 36 inches in length (in this case I cast on 136). I used the cast on that is like "knitting into thin air" as the boy calls it.


• Make sure you don't have any twists in the cast on, then prepare to join ... sort of.


• In the back of each stitch, pick up (don't knit) another stitch. This will require a half turn of the stitches.


• Now you will have twice as many stitches as you started with, and your circular needle will look like a contortionist, threading by each stitch twice. It's quite a sight to behold.


• Knit. Until the scarf is as wide as you want it to be.


• One row purl, followed by casting off by P, P, pull first stitch over second. (My silly attempt to reduce curling. =/)


• Block to reduce curl.