Moebius Lace Scarf

Soleil38 wrote

on Nov 20, 2007 5:00 PM

I'll try to post a picture of where I'm at tomorrow...

PaulineL wrote

on Nov 20, 2007 5:24 PM

Triple crochet, US style, X-stitches? Above and below a row of hdc puff sts? Some of the flower-like sts from Chanson en Crochet?

Soleil38 wrote

on Nov 20, 2007 6:06 PM

Sanity, Sanity, Sanity

PaulineL wrote

on Nov 20, 2007 10:12 PM

Remembered from a book of crochet patterns for the home. The most inspired was a round tablecloth worked in size 5? thread with a fat F or G hook. I recall she/they used lots of X-stitches and HDCs, simple but effective.

X-stitch may be the wrong name. There is the stitch where you reach out 2 or 3 stitches beyond where the head of the stitch is to make a slanting double or treble or larger, then chain 2 or 3 and make another long stitch reaching back to under where the slanted stitch started. You get two crossing stitches that are not connected to each other.

Then there is the stitch that starts as a double treble or more, lots of yo's before inserting the hook into the fabric and drawing up a loop, work off half the loops on the hook, make a few more yo's, reach forward and draw up a loop, work those yo's and the initial yo's off until you have a lambda or an X with two legs but only one arm, chain a few, yo's again and reach back to the middle of the unfinished X, insert hook, and work off the yo's. This completes the missing arm. Follow all that? I think this more complex X is what the book used.

Soleil38 wrote

on Nov 21, 2007 5:48 AM

I started a row of Treble crochet last night, and fell asleep on it, litterally! I'm very busy with work and people coming over for a couple days, I'll have to put my crochet aside... Can't wait to pick it back up. I'll try the X stitch, but I'm feeling a bit comfused right now... I'll have to try it with your instructions and I'll let you know how it's going!

Soleil38 wrote

on Nov 30, 2007 8:25 AM

Ok, here's a few pictures of where I'm at now. Didn't even go all the

way around with the first row of TC yet... Once that row is finished,

I'm still not sure what I'll do. As one of the pictures shows, the

first row (running down the middle) is full of holes... It was the

first time I started a project with a foundationless DC strip, I didn't

really know what I was doing and the tension was very uneven, so, doing

some rows or TC and something else will, I hope, help to make this

first row LOOK like that's what I actually wanted in the first place...

Unless I find a way to run something over it later on. I don't know

yet.

Anyone has an idea as to what I should do for the next row? I'm tempted

to try the X-stitch that Pauline mentionned.

Soleil38 wrote

on Nov 30, 2007 8:27 AM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/2076168658_daca5185b5.jpg?v=0

KathM wrote

on Feb 8, 2008 10:30 AM

it's totally gorgeous!! I love it.

sorry i'm no help but plenty of admoration. It'll look ghreat when completed.

Kath

Sawatdee wrote

on Dec 6, 2009 7:51 AM

Mesh stitch would maybe be nice: hdc, *ch 1, sk 1 st, hdc into next st, repeat from *, not like the bigger meshes, but it would go well with the fine merino lace.

Sawatdee wrote

on Dec 6, 2009 7:52 AM

Sorry for the posting twice!

skipnil6 wrote

on Jan 3, 2010 2:53 PM

how do you do a moebius scarf?