I'm making a mobeius scarf for my friend Jim.
The mobieus is a scarf that's knitted in the round on circular needles so there's no seam....but it's knitted in such a way that there's the traditional half twist to it:
It's really very cool to watch people try and figure out how I can manage to knit a tube with a twist in it. They usually try and find the seam line where I sewed the two ends together.
There isn't one. The first 150 stitches are cast on to a circular needle, then another 150 stitches are picked up in the bottom of the cast on stitches...and when those are joined together in the first knitted round the half-twist is created. From then on you just knit around and around and around, like you're knitting a coil. I knit my umbilical cord hats (baby beanies) in the round too - except those are created on double pointed needles. some principal, knitting in the round...just done on 4 double ended needles instead of one circular needle.
The mobieus is a bit of a bitch to get the hang of and the first 20 or so rows look like they're completely screwed up and ought to be ripped out and started anew....but perseverance makes it all come together and the end result is a very cool scarf.
Pictures will surely follow....