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it aint rocket science. April 19, 2008

MOBIUS SHAWL
Posted by Don under apparel design | Tags: clothing, paernless design, sewing | [2] Comments About these ads

John Lennon sang on the White Album of the Beatles; Your inside is out, when your outside is in to express the paradox of the oneness free from illusion of a multidimensional world. The German mathematician and astronomer- theoretician A. F. Mbius discovered at the beginning of the nineteenth century, that something with two sides can have one surface: the mbius ring. The inside is the outside when one joins the two short ends together with a twist into a ring think of the cyclic of time; visualize by joining the frontside to the backside. Isnt it amazing?

The mbius ring is a popular paern used by kniers to create scarves and wraps into wonderful fashion accessories out of yarn. I thought the same idea could be achieved by using double faced fabrics such as Yukon eece. Both sides of the fabric are identical and raw edges do not fray. The shoulder shawl, similar like the one above designed by Judy Sco of Mountain Color Yarns hp://www.mountaincolors.com, can be easily made from a rectangle of two-ply polar eece. No paern is needed. 1. 2. 3. 4. Start with a rectangle (ABCD) approx. 20 long x 60 wide. Give the rectangle a half twist. Align the short ends so that they overlap and A matches D and B matches C. Stitch through the overlapped layers and trim closely to the stitching.

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Janet Says: June 23, 2010 at 2:56 pm Done, Make this.. you NEED it

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