Biglgy Didge
By Vicki Rghinsen
A fun, easy moebius using only knit and purl stitches is designed to make use of a whole skein of gradient yarn, be it handspun or commercial. Its simple beaded bind off adds just enough sparkle to satisfy the magpie in you. iulgy Didlge has been written in 2 sizes with the shorter pink version written fist and longer purple version in parentheses. The mobeius is worked from the middle out so casting on with the lightest colour is recommended. Matching your beads to a colour in the yarn will be highlighted beautifully against the darker outsideridge.
Materials:
+ Yarn: Handspun Loop! Self Striping Spontaneous Spinning Roving Bullseye Bump 370[330] yards / 338.3[302] meter sport weight/12wpi. Other weight yarn may be substituted for which you will have to change your cast on number according to your swatch. Any yardage may be used as you will weigh your yarn to calculate when to bind off. \* Needles: US 7/4.5mm, 40"minimum long circular Stitch marker \*199[243] 2/0 Glass E beads. Approx 44g [55g]. \$0.75mm crochet hook for beading(or hook that bead must fit over and be able to hook and pull stitch through) Gauge: 18 sts x 24 rows =4" stockinet in the round Whilst gauge is not necessarily imperative to this scarf,it has been included to assist your adapting it to suit different yarn weights and needles and anticipated finished dimensions. Abbreviations: K- knit P-purl B-place bead BO-bind off Beading Guidance- http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/FEATseducedbybeads.html Cat Bordhi Moebius Cast On You Tube Tutorial- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVnTda7F2V4 Using Cat Bordhi's moebius, from the lightest colour of your gradient, cast on method, cast on 100[150] stitches. Be sure to count only the completed figure 8 and not both top and bottom stitches. Place marker and join in the round. Rows 1-6: K (200[300] stitches) Rows7-12:P As you get further into your yarn, weigh your skein of yarn after completion of a row, several times, in order to calculate how much yarn is used per row. Continue in pattern until you have enough yarn left for 3 rows. (Your bind off will use approximately twice the amount of yarn used for a regular row.) On your final row before binding off, work it opposite to previous row, i.e. if you have been purling, knit this last row. This will help the row sit flat to highlight the beads.
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Binding Off: BO 1 st. Work next stitch. Place a bead on this stitch using crochet hook method. Bind off that stitch, securing the BO stitch underneath the bead. Repeat until all stitches are bound off. For the last BO st, pick up and k into the stitch before the 1"t bead. Place bead. BO. Cut yarn and pull tail through final stitch with the bead. Sew in ends. Finishing &Finished measurements: Rather than delving into the question on the length of infinity, for our purposes I have laid the moebius flat. The pink, shorter moebius as pictured is 6"x54" (16.5cmx136cm) which allows it to be worn as a single drape or comfortably doubled at the neck, highlighting the beaded edge. The longer purple moebius measures 57"x4 %", enough to wrap once, twice with variations in drape in between. The samples shown were not stretch blocked in order to maintain the ridgy didges.
