Torchwood scarf
I've been wanting to knit a Torchwood scarf for a few years, and I finally finished one not long ago.
I initially tried to knit a scarf with the Torchwood "T" logo composed of hexagons, but it came out very wide and wasn't really proportional.
My original version was a black background with a red design. It was over eighty stitches wide, and it was a disaster. I spent quite a few hours on it, redoing unsatisfactory work, before scrapping the whole thing. I then switched to white background/red design, and that was another disaster.
I hated how it looked, so I scrapped it and used another idea.
This version has a different Torchwood T logo at either end. Then, because I was bored and wanted to fill the space between the ends with something instead of leaving it all plain, I added various random hexagonal combinations. The finished version is about four feet long not counting the tassels, but because it's double-knit, that's actually eight feet of super-slow knitting. I'd had so many problems with the first two failed versions and wasted so many hours on them that I just wanted to finish the thing. It's long enough to be a decorative scarf. This is one of several scarves that will be coming with me to Chicago TARDIS later this month.
Photos: side A (red with black), side B (black with red), half side A/half side B.
ETA: Except for the colors being reversed, the scarf is the exact same on both sides and can be worn with either color facing up. Or it can be flipped behind the neck and worn with one half red, one half black facing up (as in the third photo).
I initially tried to knit a scarf with the Torchwood "T" logo composed of hexagons, but it came out very wide and wasn't really proportional.
My original version was a black background with a red design. It was over eighty stitches wide, and it was a disaster. I spent quite a few hours on it, redoing unsatisfactory work, before scrapping the whole thing. I then switched to white background/red design, and that was another disaster.
I hated how it looked, so I scrapped it and used another idea.
This version has a different Torchwood T logo at either end. Then, because I was bored and wanted to fill the space between the ends with something instead of leaving it all plain, I added various random hexagonal combinations. The finished version is about four feet long not counting the tassels, but because it's double-knit, that's actually eight feet of super-slow knitting. I'd had so many problems with the first two failed versions and wasted so many hours on them that I just wanted to finish the thing. It's long enough to be a decorative scarf. This is one of several scarves that will be coming with me to Chicago TARDIS later this month.
Photos: side A (red with black), side B (black with red), half side A/half side B.
ETA: Except for the colors being reversed, the scarf is the exact same on both sides and can be worn with either color facing up. Or it can be flipped behind the neck and worn with one half red, one half black facing up (as in the third photo).