Using the Cat Bordhi Moebius Cast-on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVnTda7F2V4
but minus the slip-knot, I cast on stitches until there wasn’t room for more on my 24” circular. After a few rows and after I switched from a single circular to four circulars, I counted them. 552 stitches in 1x1 ribbing.

Now the explanation behind the four circulars and the name of this project.
On Knitting Paradise, there was a discussion about mixing up needle sizes on socks, and one poster mentioned that she normally put a smaller tip on her interchangeable cable for knitting in the round - the smaller tip doing the feeding of already formed stitches to the larger tip which formed the new stitches. It’s just easier to push stitches up onto a smaller tip.
So, having been struggling with my Mobius - pushing and pulling stitches around and around the double spiral of my circular’s cable … I’d even tried a 57” cable, but it was still more work than fun to push the stitches around and around! I finally decided to put the #10 tips from the KnitPicks acrylic and nickel-plated sets onto four of the short cables and the #9s on the other ends. Then - carefully checking that I was using the #10s, I knit the twisted mass (about 15 rows done) onto my new set up of needles. 184 stitches on each of three needles and one to work with - just like working with double pointed needles - but dpns couldn’t manage the twists and turns of a true Mobius!

It worked like a dream! No more fighting to get the stitches to move around, since only one-third of them have to move along one short cable at a time! However, anyone seeing me with eight pointy needle tips flopping or flying about must wonder about it!
Eight are the legs of a spider; my yarn is camo black/grey, grey, and black - appropriate colours for spiders. Next month is October, and the Halloween decorations are already making their appearances around town. …
So, this is my Spider Mobius! With any luck and if I stick with it, it may even be done by Halloween!

5:45 AM October 12, 2013 It’s DONE! And I used a new (for me) stretchy cast-off: http://slipslipknit.com/?page_id=92 It’s as stretchy as the 1x1 ribbing, and that’s the stretchiest ribbing of them all.
It took nearly three hours to bind off all those stitches and weave in the last few ends. I think I’ll leave the beginning-of-cast-on tail for the time being. Just to be able to pinpoint where it began.

It is HUGE! When it’s up on my head like a hood, the fold makes an effective muff. When it’s on my shoulders, it’s a shawl-like thingie.
Edge-to-edge , it’s 18”. (Yes, I know a Möbius only has one edge, but you know what I mean!)
Laid flat and unstretched, it’s 24”. Stretched, it goes to over 6’! Perfect for ME! For once, I’ve knit myself something that no one else is likely to desire, and which I’ll be able to keep for myself. Yippee!

October 14th, 2013 Thanks to Ginette for taking the photos at yesterday’s Sunday Morning Knitting Meeting. If someone else takes the photos, they get posted more quickly than when I or my darling are the photographer!

February 14th, 2014 Given to my niece Diana, who happens to have a coat it matches and is nearly as tall as I, though she’s skinny as a stick.

November 15, 2014 I guess it’s about time I begin another. Soon.

A new and accurate name for my method of knitting with four circulars: Arachnid Knitting! Thanks go to GrumpyGramma’s post on Knitting Paradise: https://www.knittingparadise.com/threads/knitting-mobius-...