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I was one of the commitment-phobic folks watching this community, but it looks like a lovely place. Hello! I'm rather new to Doctor Who, spent last winter educating myself with some of the classic episodes, and got obsessed with Tom Baker's scarf the instant I saw it in City of Death. It was just so fabulously ridiculous. I heart it. I just finished knitting my Scarf, and I'm almost sorry, because I'd love to participate in the knit-along. Alas, I've blown my yarn budget for the year. :)
I just posted about my scarf here, including my yarn travails, but I wanted to encourage any new knitters who are going to knit along: this is a great project for beginners! It's just one simple stitch, repeated a kajillion times, so you get lots of practice without any complicated tricks to learn. The challenge is just keeping at it.
In the middle of knitting the scarf, I took a road trip and needed a more portable project to work on, so I made a tiny replica scarf for a teddy bear.
It's a little lumpy-looking because my yarns weren't consistent thicknesses.
It's roughly the same proportions and exactly the same yarn as I used for the "original." I couldn't be exact because when you're cutting down the pattern that much (from this pattern), the fractions don't quite work out.
I made it 8 stitches wide, used size 3 needles (circular because they're more compact, and just turned the work every row, but I would have preferred straight needles), and of course it's all garter stitch (knit every row). All row counts are even numbers because you have to change colors on the same side of the work every time.
Row counts:
2 purple
14 tan
4 brown
4 yellow
8 red
2 purple
10 gray
8 green
2 yellow
10 tan
4 red
2 brown
4 purple
12 green
4 yellow
6 gray
2 red
14 tan
2 purple
8 green
4 gray
2 yellow
5 red
2 purple
10 brown
4 tan
2 gray
10 red
4 yellow
8 green
2 purple
10 tan
4 brown
8 gray
2 red
4 purple
2 tan
4 yellow
14 green
4 red
4 gray
2 yellow
6 brown
4 purple
4 tan
10 gray
2 red
4 yellow
4 tan
2 purple
8 brown
2 red
10 purple
Notes:
* After going through that whole pattern, I didn't think it was long enough, so I repeated the first 12 colors, I think. You wouldn't have to do that, I just wanted the scarf to have the appearance of Tom Baker proportions on my bear: once around the neck and all the way to the ground on both ends.
* Changing colors that often? Kind of a pain. Just saying. If I were to do this again, I would probably do no less than 4 rows of any color. Those two-row sections are tiny and difficult to deal with when it comes time to work the ends in.
I just posted about my scarf here, including my yarn travails, but I wanted to encourage any new knitters who are going to knit along: this is a great project for beginners! It's just one simple stitch, repeated a kajillion times, so you get lots of practice without any complicated tricks to learn. The challenge is just keeping at it.
In the middle of knitting the scarf, I took a road trip and needed a more portable project to work on, so I made a tiny replica scarf for a teddy bear.
It's a little lumpy-looking because my yarns weren't consistent thicknesses.
It's roughly the same proportions and exactly the same yarn as I used for the "original." I couldn't be exact because when you're cutting down the pattern that much (from this pattern), the fractions don't quite work out.
I made it 8 stitches wide, used size 3 needles (circular because they're more compact, and just turned the work every row, but I would have preferred straight needles), and of course it's all garter stitch (knit every row). All row counts are even numbers because you have to change colors on the same side of the work every time.
Row counts:
2 purple
14 tan
4 brown
4 yellow
8 red
2 purple
10 gray
8 green
2 yellow
10 tan
4 red
2 brown
4 purple
12 green
4 yellow
6 gray
2 red
14 tan
2 purple
8 green
4 gray
2 yellow
5 red
2 purple
10 brown
4 tan
2 gray
10 red
4 yellow
8 green
2 purple
10 tan
4 brown
8 gray
2 red
4 purple
2 tan
4 yellow
14 green
4 red
4 gray
2 yellow
6 brown
4 purple
4 tan
10 gray
2 red
4 yellow
4 tan
2 purple
8 brown
2 red
10 purple
Notes:
* After going through that whole pattern, I didn't think it was long enough, so I repeated the first 12 colors, I think. You wouldn't have to do that, I just wanted the scarf to have the appearance of Tom Baker proportions on my bear: once around the neck and all the way to the ground on both ends.
* Changing colors that often? Kind of a pain. Just saying. If I were to do this again, I would probably do no less than 4 rows of any color. Those two-row sections are tiny and difficult to deal with when it comes time to work the ends in.