Doctor Who Scarf: finished!

[vilakins]

I finally finished my Doctor Who scarf yesterday with three days to spare (the knit-a-long finshes with the year). It's a modified pattern in which I used Fibonacci numbers, rounding down if they were odd, so all the stripes are 8, 12, 20, or 34 rows. This also made it the length I wanted, just to my knees. I'm enough of a klutz not to want anything more I can trip over.



The best range I could find didn't have a yellow, so I used orange. There's also a grey row in there which shouldn't be in an S14 scarf, but I like it.


The scarf over a railing. Do I have enough tassels? I suppose I could add some between the existing ones.

If I look a bit hunchbacked in these photos, it's because Greg took the photos from up the steps. :-P


A mosaic of me in scarf, me with hat and sonic screwdriver, and covering three fandoms in knit with Jayne hat (made by reapermum) and Blake's 7 teleport bracelet (pattern by wolfma). Bwahahaha!

I was going to wear my brown corduroy jacket with the hat, but it's summer here and I got hot enough already in the scarf. It took me a while to cool down after that. :-P

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Hee, you crossover heroine, you! I love it:D.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D I haven't seen that icon before! Very cute, esp his expression. :-)

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Awesomesauce! You look lovely in the Fourth Doctor hat, it really suits you! Clearly it was meant to be.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's my Akubra, which I've had for years. I have many hats (http://vilakins.livejournal.com/366240.html) and wish they'd come back into fashion so I wouldn't get stared at so much when I wear them. :-P

[kerravonsen]

(grin)
Yayness! You have now doubled your fangeek cred. 8-D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Tripled! :-)

[redscharlach.livejournal.com]

Go you, and your knitwear crossover madness!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! [wonders what other wearable fannish stuff she can knit]

[communicator.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. I like the Fibonacci touch.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I thought a lot of the canon stripes were far too long, and Fibonacci numbers give a pleasing proportion. :-)

[kernezelda]

You're so wonderfully crafty and talented - drawing, jewelry-making, knitting, writing, to name a few. The scarf is cute as anything, and you in all your knitted glory are cute as a button. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Really? HAMSTER CHEEKS! And man, my shnoz looks huge in that last one. ;-)

Honestly, the scarf was dead easy to knit, all in garter stitch, and it was rather relaxing and therapeutic. I'm going to use up all the leftover yarn making crocheted cat cuddlers (entropy_house posted a pattern) and maybe knitted neck and wrist cuffs and things like that. :-D I even found you can knit wire up with beads on tiny needles and make delicate jewellery!

I love that knitting and crochet have come back into fashion. I used to do it as a teenager but stopped when I went overseas.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is awesome! Go you, getting it all finished! And I do love those pictures. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Now I just have to finish the one I started earlier in the bright and very non-canon colours. :-P

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Yay! Wow!

Now I want to write about the Fourth Doctor on the Liberator. I haven't seen Firefly (ducks) so I can't write that one into it!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Do it!

I did write Vila on the TARDIS with the fourth Doctor: In the Nick of Time (http://www.farsight.net.nz/fiction/nick.htm). :-)

[imhilien.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I used to knit when I was younger, but would be hopeless at it now. :-p

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I hadn't knitted since I was a teenager till I made a peggy square for a friend's blanket (each square from a different friend) last year. You'd be surprised at how easily it comes back. :-)

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It's all lovely! I don't think it needs any more tassels. The Fibonacci number idea was genius. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The original has lots of really close tassels, but hey, this isn't very canon anyway. I did get the Fibonacci idea from a knitter who uses those proportions in all her striped projects.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

SO COOL!! *envious of all your geeky knitting*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should knit a Stark mask next. ;-) Just a joke; I'm not clever enough to make up patterns.

[thetisonline.livejournal.com]

Oh ... I love it, I love it, I love it. Congratulations on finishing. The photo with the hat is aawesome.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I do love my leather Akubra. :-)

[vandonovan.livejournal.com]

Aahahahha, too cute! And yay scarf, it looks great! And Jayne hat. :D

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's a pity you can't see the bobble on the Jayne hat properly. :-)

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Absolutely smashing - you can substitute here and there now!!!!!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Have scarf, see the galaxy!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Well done, it's not the difficulty of that pattern but the amount of it that deserves praise. It's all so neat and even tensioned, I gather from other replies that you have been knitting for more than a year just not recently it's often difficult to get your tension right after a break but you have done it. And no I don't think you need more tassels, they look just right to me.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Really, I started properly in early November, with the bright and still only 60% done scarf. Last year (2007 since 2008 only has a day to run) I knitted two squares (http://flickr.com/photos/8988988@N06/) for a friend's blanket and was surprised at how easily it came back to me, but I'd done nothing since then until the scarves. I so enjoyed the knitting though (relaxing and therapeutic, when it's this simple anyway) that I decided to get back into it again.

[crycraven.livejournal.com]

WOWOWOOWOWWWW! Hhaha I' so jealous of your tassels, they look fabulous, and the fangirl enseble wins. I go bak to college today so hopefully my bracelet will be there and I shall go to Starbucks in my geeky wonderfulness. What's next?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Tassels are easy if you have a big enough crochet hook. Mine wasn't, so I pulled the yarn though (loop first) in 2s and 3s, gathered it together, evened it up, then put the ends through the loops.

Starbucks in your scarf is a fabulous idea! If I was there, I'd come too, in my hat and fingerless gloves (coz it would be cold) with my sonic screwdriver poking out of a pocket. ;-)

I do hope the bracelet is there.

Next? I have to finish the other scarf which I did on smaller needles and will therefore be shorter, then I think I'll use up all the extra wool in crocheting cat cuddlers and knitting a few neck and wrist warmers. Not fannish, but hey.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

oh it's fantastic!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-D

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

The scarf does look good. Your idea of using the Fibonacci series has left the stripes in pleasing proportions.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I didn't like the very long stripes in the canon one, and reducing the rows also made the scarf shorter as well as giving nice proportions. The other scarf WIP is done in the same row numbers.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

[jecono.livejournal.com]

Lovely scarf! Having it this "short" also helps with not getting this beautiful thing dirty too quickly, I think. And I like your hair!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yes, the original got shortened, presumably because it got dirty and damaged with Tom Baker tripped over it or stood on it. Then they knitted him two more even longer ones that he had to loop down to his waist!

Thank you! :-D My hair looks a bit ragged-edged there, caught on the scarf; it's usually a bit neater. :-)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Most excellent!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-)