Post by Susan Goldstine / Redsky

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#ShowMeYourKnits My most satisfying knit from #scraps: a möbius Chevron Cowl made with various pink and brown fingering yarn #leftovers held together. The half-twist makes the diagonal “ribs” slant in opposite directions where they meet at the center. 🧶 #knitsky www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My scrappy Chevron Cowl, made from five lace to sport weight yarns held together in different combinations. The cowl is a seamless möbius band, so it has one surface and one edge. The center of the band is a highly mottled pink, while the border is made from variegated pink and solid brown yarns held together with a pale pink mohair lace. The cowl is folded much as I would put it over my head, with the back horizontal and the front in a downward pointing V. As with möbius cowls in general, it lays in position flatter than a long cylindrical cowl.

The in-progress cowl, shortly after I started the border. Since the cable needle runs through the entire edge of the möbius strip, the fabric is wrapped into a compact cowl. For fun, when I started the border, I made the diagonal texture slant in the other direction. So in the finished cowl, if you follow a stockinette or reverse stockinette stripe, it makes a W shape instead of a V.

The beginning of the cowl together with the five balls of yarn that make it up. The pattern uses the famous Cat Bordhi möbius cast on to start knitting along the midline and knit outward along the single edge of the möbius band. In the wooden yarn bowl at the top are a highly variegated pink ball of yarn and the tail end of a dark pink solid. Below the bowl, a small ball of a slightly lighter pink solid rests on two full balls of yarn that went into the border, a coffee brown wool blend and a pale pink mohair blend lace.

The proximate cause of the cowl. Crazy for Ewe, my local yarn shop, was doing a community project where they asked people to knit garter-stitch hearts in pinks and reds. Here are the seven hearts I made from various pink leftovers. The one at the top used the variegated pink held with one of the solid pinks. I loved the combination and I had a lot of the variegated pink left, so I started planning the cowl.

aug 9, 2025, 5:26 pm • 29 0

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Love the colors.

aug 10, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view

Thank you! I was very happy with how everything came together.

aug 10, 2025, 3:13 am • 1 0 • view