Remember all those knitting books you sent me ages ago? Well I finished my Doctor Who season 18 scarf today.
Here’s a stuffed white tiger modelling it for me, to show the colors (which aren’t exactly the same as Tom Baker’s scarf as I used navy instead of purple because I couldn’t find a dark enough purple but whatever):
And here’s a larger picture to show the whole thing, which didn’t turn out quite as long as my other scarf that a friend crocheted for me, but admittedly, the other one has been stretched out quite a bit from being dragged all over creation:
Oh! That’s very NICE! I’m impressed, not to mention very proud of you!
It’s a very big scarf, I see! Lots of color changes, too, so I know a lot of work went into it. Not only that, but . . . the stitches are so EVEN! What a good job you did! I think the navy looks very good.
More often than not, knitting projects end up languishing unfinished. This scarf, though, is a finished creation now. It will have a good life keeping your neck warm, as well as most of the rest of you!
Next time I have a trim, I’m sending the fleece to you!
I’ve been working on it on-and-off since last thanksgiving, but it’s finished!
The worst thing about the color changes is weaving in all those stupid ends. I’m making my mother a similar but shorter scarf. This time I’m not cutting the ends until I finish with the short stripes, I just drop one color and pick the other up so I only have two ends to weave in for each block of short stripes instead of 10.
Weaving in is very annoying. I never know when to stop weaving in, and the ends always seem to keep popping out no matter what. Just a smidge at the end of the tail.
This is why I prefer to use solid colors, adding textural interest via the use of stitch variations, cables, etc.
Cables are really easy, by the way. They look ridiculously difficult, but they’re not. The first time I did cables, I kept stopping because I didn’t believe I was reading the instructions correctly. “Oh, this has to be wrong! Doing this isn’t going to make it look like that picture!” But it did! The simplest thing in the world. You’d never believe it.
Congratulations! That is a very handsome scarf. I remember when you gave us the link to see a picture of what you were working on. It really is wonderful to finish a project. I have so many unfinished ones—they far outnumber the things I’ve finished. You should be very proud!
I just wove them in the length of the yarn needle I had. I found out that the quickest way to do it (especially since on some of the first couple blocks I cut the ends too short) was to put the needle through all the stiches you could fit it through, then pop the end of the thread through the eye and pull it through all of them at once. I managed to get the weaving done in about two and a half days, but I wasn’t doing much else except when I was at work. But like I said, I learned my lesson about cutting the yarn for each stupid little two-row stripe. Bad idea.
TS, I’ve been knitting an early Baker-era scarf for a couple years now.
(I keep forgetting about it.) So, I’m impressed and gladdened that the
things are finishable. Here’s hoping the Southeast actually starts having
winters cold enough to put them to use… I haven’t worn my Griffendor
scarf in a long time!
I wore a scarf in . . . oh, hmm . . . when was it . . . January of 2001. Yes, I recall that clearly. I got up that morning, thought “Today is THE DAY! It’s COLD today and I AM GOING TO WEAR A SCARF! It has been YEARS since I wore a scarf and today I am going to wear this lovely cream scarf” and went off to work with it. I really did. I’d been waiting for it to drop below 40 for ages.
I actually made it about 50 feet before I ripped it off, gasping for air.
My winter things have since been shipped to a mission in Salt Lake City.
