My Sixth Doctor scarf is finished! (photos)
Like the Seventh Doctor scarf I knit last year, this one will be coming with me to Chicago TARDIS in November. Colin Baker has been announced as a guest this year! Also, I have an All-Access membership to the con for the first time ever.
I started knitting this scarf in January and completed it in late March. It's about 8 feet, 4 inches long, not counting the tassels. Since it's double-knit, that comes out to around 16 feet, 8 inches worth of knitting.
It's more or less 550 rows long, and it took roughly 36 1/2 hours to knit it. That seems painfully slow to me (four minutes per row!), but I find the constant knit-purl-knit-purl of double knitting to be tedious, and I still adjust my tension after nearly every stitch. The scarf is 20 stitches wide, which is 40 stitches per row since half of the stitches show on the front, and the remaining half show on the back.
The 36 1/2 hours does not count the amount of time I spent making and fixing mistakes, choosing colors (I used a total of about 24 colors), making the tassels, hiding the yarn ends, and designing a couple of the more complex sections.
This is not the first Sixth Doctor scarf that I know of. Someone else knit one around two years ago, but she used her own color choices, style, and pattern. I think the world needs a lot more Sixth Doctor scarves, so I hope other people are inspired to make their own. I didn't especially plan mine out. For the most part, I just started knitting a section and changed to another color when I felt like it. Exceptions include the sections with the question mark and the polka dots, which had to be planned more carefully.
Photos!
The scarf before I added the tassels and finished hiding about half of the yarn ends (which is pretty easy with double knitting since you just tuck the ends between the scarf's two layers):
Two views of the right (front) side in different lighting:
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The wrong (reverse) side, which is the opposite colors of the right side:
Full length:
Two cat pins. I plan to add more. For instance, I need to find a long-haired orange cat to represent my Jack:
