Mommy & Me Möbius

Möbius shoulder wrap for myself, to match Iris' Möbius Mini.
Using a 47” size 7 cable needle, Möbius cast on 160 stitches plus the slip knot for 321 stitches per round. (I have no clue how I ended up with 319 stitches.) Knit in moss stitch (K1, P1) until you are almost out of yarn. Bind off using the stretchy bind off before you run completely out of yarn.

You can use a 32” cable needle after the first few rounds. You can use a crochet hook to speed up the bind off.

If you use the entire skein, the Moebius strip becomes a bit too wide to wear without folding over a little bit at the back neck. You may like the fold over. But, if you don’t, stop when the band is 10” wide or so.

You can learn more about the cast on and bind off method in the Möbius Mini post.

If you are a ravelry user, more details are here.

Q & A

Mardel tagged me with this Q & A. I hope she gives me partial credit. My bedside table yesterday morning.

For the new question, how about "What's on your kitchen counter?"
The Neuro Fuzzy rice cooker makes perfect quinoa on the brown rice setting. I also soak and cook beans with it using the delay timer feature. I have no idea what the manufacturer means by Neuro Fuzzy, but I noticed a lot of computer scientists use this rice cooker. LOL

The Neuro Fuzzy® Rice Cooker & Warmer features advanced Neuro Fuzzy® logic technology, which allows the rice cooker to 'think' for itself and make fine adjustments to temperature and heating time to cook perfect rice every time.

Quinoa recipes on NPR.

Dumpling Master

Following the advice of Counter Intelligence and Eat LA, we stopped at Dumpling Master in Monterey Park on the way home from Joshua Tree. Although reviews on yelp have been spotty of late, we found the food and the service were excellent.

Mark trusted Jonathon Gold enough to select items from the review. The waitress suggested dishes that kids usually like. Her recommendations were spot on. Iris gave the place two thumbs up.

We ordered scallion pancakes, pork potstickers, veggie dumplings, hot and sour soup, greens with tofu noodles, and a three-item appetizer platter from the display case below. (Due to overzealous hard drive cleaning, I don't have the third picture in the series, showing the seaweed appetizers, which were delicous.)


The place is Taiwanese, so the food may taste funny if you were expecting Chinese food. The deli case transported me into my youth. They make a perfect Taiwanese-style hot and sour soup. Perfect.

The waitress was very nice and she cooed over Iris, ingratiating herself with the proud mama. I have no idea why some reviewers found the service unfriendly. I didn't even tell her that my mother is from Ilan until we were on our way out. The other table, with several people who spoke in eastern European accents, were treated similarly kindly and discussed how much they enjoyed their food.