I beg everyone will forgive me if this and any subsequent posts are a bit roughly done. This is my first time posting on Livejournal or attempting to demonstrate anything like this.
For the past year I have been working on a ridiculously, needlessly tedious screen-accurate pattern for the Season 16/17 Doctor Who scarf.
For those who don’t know the history of the Fourth Doctor’s scarf, a brief summary:
The original scarf was knit by Begonia Pope for Tom Baker’s first serial in Doctor Who, “Robot”. He continued to wear it through Seasons 12 and 13, with panels being slowing removed due to damage, up until Season 14’s “The Deadly Assassin”.
For the Season 13 serial “The Android Invasion”, a duplicate scarf was knit for scenes in which The Doctor and his android double are on screen together. Its colors are not an exact match for the Original, and it’s knit with smaller needles, to a smaller width, and with minor differences in the row count. It supplanted the original for portions of Season 14 and 15.
At the beginning of Season 16, the remains of the Original scarf had several sections taken out of it, and it was then crocheted end-to-end with the Duplicate scarf, making a single, extremely long scarf. This was worn throughout Seasons 16 and 17, until it was heavily modified once again before production on the unfinished serial “Shada”.
My pattern attempts to approximate the unique quirks of the way the Season 16/17 scarf was assembled, in appearance if not specifically in construction.
Stay tuned for the instructions for the first half.