Sweet Nothings Crochet: INFINITELY SIMPLE MOBIUS COWL

INFINITELY SIMPLE MOBIUS COWL

Now if you’ve been following my blogs you’ll know that as soon as I landed in Aveiro, Portugal, I chanced on some lovely bulky yarns – and immediately made my first mobius cowl for my daughter.

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If you missed that blog, then it’s my Double Crossed Mobius Cowl at http://shyamanivas.blogspot.pt/2014/12/double-crossed-mobius-cowl.html

Her friend loved this and with time and hooks in hand, yarn easily available, this was just the easiest Christmas present for me .. so out came my hooks and I started on a second mobius cowl – one I’ve I’ve been longing to try – Moogly’s Artfully Simple Infinity Scarf. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/artfully-simple-infinity-scarf J

I’ve tweaked the patterns a bit.. but they’re both inspired by this lovely scarf.

Materials used : Today I’ve used Red heart + Bravo Big bulky weight yarn, with a 6.5 mm crochet hook

For Indians : You could use Anchor , Red ros e ; Red rose metallic or unbranded knitting cotton as well as Oswal or Vardhaman acrylic yarns

General yarn info : The yarn used today is not specific to this pattern.

You can use any yarn with a suitable hook to make this project to any size.

International yarns : Among the international yarns I have used in this thickness, I’d suggest Aunt Lydia Cotton 10, Aunt Lydia Bamboo-Viscose 10, DMC Petra, Sullivans knitting cotton (Australia), Milford Soft, Hilaza Rustica Eclat , Alize cotton yarn and Alize bamboo yarn.

Size made : Width : 7.25” x Length : 26”

Now the beauty of this pattern – it really IS artfully simple. Can you believe that both these creations are made with the same pattern.. and they look so different? For the original pattern, please visit Moogly’s Artfully Simple Infinity Scarf at http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/artfully-simple-infinity-scarf

For this pattern, I used fsc to start in a multiple of tens.

See how this lovely pattern opens hammock-like.. I love it !

OK.. so for the first cowl, I did an sc every 10^th st (and I worked only one sc as against 2 dc given per pattern). I changed yarns every alternate row ( I have used two shades of grey).

When I was happy with the width of the cowl, I just wound the yarns around the starting row to form this cord neat finish.

For my second creation, I started with a row of fsc (as per instructions) but gave the yarn a twist and attached it as one would for a mobius cowl. This cowl is worked along the length. I started with a fsc chain that was the length /circumference of the cowl I wanted and I joined the ends of the fsc chain. The complication or tweak here is to give it just one twist before joining the chain. I then worked the pattern in rounds.

Check out this video on how to keep your chain flat without twisting when working with a longer chain length https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwoGTvFbxbg

For this pattern, I used fsc to start in a multiple of fives. I then worked the pattern as given by the designer, just working it in multiples of 5 though. :)

As this is a mobius cowl, one half of the cowl looks different from the other side.. making it look a lot more difficult and complicated and convoluted a pattern than it actually is.

Both patterns really can be done, as promised by the designer, in a day.. and one skein.. so go ahead.. make this one now.

So here you have several ways to make the lovely cowl or scarf.. so go ahead and enjoy

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