Seventh Doctor scarf photos
I finished knitting this scarf based on the Seventh Doctor's pullover pattern in July and am finally posting a few pictures of it. The scarf is coming with me to this November's Chicago TARDIS convention, which has Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, and Philip Olivier as a few of the guests.
The scarf is 5 feet and 3 inches long and 4 3/4 inches wide, while the tassels add about another 6 1/2 inches to the length. The yarns I used were:
Red Heart Super Saver Cornmeal (yellow)
Red Heart Soft Seafoam (blue)
Vanna's Choice Brick (red)
The Cornmeal was the closest match I could find for the yellow of the Seventh Doctor's pullover, and I'm happy with it. I used Brick for the red because I had a lot of it left over from making Fourth Doctor scarves. As for the Seafoam, it isn't the shade I wanted. While it's a pretty color, I was looking for more of a blue/green or gray/blue shade and couldn't find either one locally. So I figured the Seafoam would have to do. In the store, it looked more "blue with hints of green" than it does in the photo, where it seems baby blue.
The scarf is double knit, meaning it has two layers. The colors and shapes on the back are the opposites of the colors and shapes on the front. At the top of the photo, you can see exactly where I decided that if I had to keep knitting in pattern for one more tedious row, I would quit. That was where I knit a stretch of almost 10 inches with no pattern at all. Doing that was easier and gave me enough of a break that I had the strength to go back to the pattern and knit the remaining rows. When I wear the scarf, the plain section goes around the back of my neck.
The proprietary paw of Jack the cat!
If I could change one thing about the pattern, I would make the question marks shorter. Overall, though, I'm happy with how this scarf turned out.
The scarf is 5 feet and 3 inches long and 4 3/4 inches wide, while the tassels add about another 6 1/2 inches to the length. The yarns I used were:
Red Heart Super Saver Cornmeal (yellow)
Red Heart Soft Seafoam (blue)
Vanna's Choice Brick (red)
The Cornmeal was the closest match I could find for the yellow of the Seventh Doctor's pullover, and I'm happy with it. I used Brick for the red because I had a lot of it left over from making Fourth Doctor scarves. As for the Seafoam, it isn't the shade I wanted. While it's a pretty color, I was looking for more of a blue/green or gray/blue shade and couldn't find either one locally. So I figured the Seafoam would have to do. In the store, it looked more "blue with hints of green" than it does in the photo, where it seems baby blue.
The scarf is double knit, meaning it has two layers. The colors and shapes on the back are the opposites of the colors and shapes on the front. At the top of the photo, you can see exactly where I decided that if I had to keep knitting in pattern for one more tedious row, I would quit. That was where I knit a stretch of almost 10 inches with no pattern at all. Doing that was easier and gave me enough of a break that I had the strength to go back to the pattern and knit the remaining rows. When I wear the scarf, the plain section goes around the back of my neck.
The proprietary paw of Jack the cat!
If I could change one thing about the pattern, I would make the question marks shorter. Overall, though, I'm happy with how this scarf turned out.