And my idea worked, pretty much :) I cast off the 432 stitches last night, put it on, and it looks rather nice, I must say. The short-rows section reaches right down to my waist, without blocking.
The basic pattern was an 18-st repeat of feather and fan. On the 'neck' section (216 stitches), I worked one row pattern, one row plain throughout. The 'back section' (the other 216 sts) was the short-rowed side, with 6 rows of garter stitch worked, each pair shorter by two pattern repeats, between the two pattern rows. The yarn was spun at about 48 wpi / 19 wraps per cm, of many types of exotic fibers, then navajo plied. I never bothered to check the twist angle, just spinning whatever the given fiber needed to pass the tug test. Fibers included camel, yak, and buffalo downs, quiviut, angora, mohair, wool/opossom, alpaca/silk, three colors of cashmere, and quite a few very soft, down-type fibers that had no label. I arranged them by color then value, starting with an unlabeled creamy-colored down fiber and working through to dark browns (of which I had more than needed :) and then into the couple batches of gray I had, into pure whites. I would change where I ended the short row sections to be a bit fewer than half the stitches. As it is, the twist of the moebius is a little bulkier than I really like. And I think it needs a good blocking to look its best. I'll try to get a picture of it on my daughter, if I can convince her to model :) and put it on my pattern page. Holly
