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Well, it's happening. I'm going to knit my very own Fourth Doctor scarf. :-)
I purchased the yarn online yesterday. Quite a bargain, too. The yarn was super cheap and it was on sale. It cost me just over $30 for 14 balls of yarn. One skein can sometimes be half that price. So once I get back from my vacation I can cast on and start knitting. I won't be aiming for the entire 12 feet simply because I am short and a 12 foot scarf would be much too long. Happily, Four's scarf varied in length over his tenure, so there are patterns that are shorter but still screen accurate. I'll probably aim for the season 13 length, which is about a foot shorter than the original length. I really don't want to be tripping over it when I wear it.
The scarf is made up of a garter stitch, which is just knit stitches, so I won't have to be super focused while I'm knitting. I think I'll re-watch some of Four's episode while I knit; it will motivate me to end up with the finished product I'm watching it on the screen. ;-)
When I started knitting, I had no intention of making one of these scarves, but it's kind of the Whovian knitter holy grail. I hope I don't get sick of the scarf or of knitting while I'm doing this. But once I'm done, I'll have to come up with a Fourth Doctor cosplay. I mean, how can I not? I'll have a piece of the costume that I made myself and it wasn't made out of cardboard and duct tape.
I purchased the yarn online yesterday. Quite a bargain, too. The yarn was super cheap and it was on sale. It cost me just over $30 for 14 balls of yarn. One skein can sometimes be half that price. So once I get back from my vacation I can cast on and start knitting. I won't be aiming for the entire 12 feet simply because I am short and a 12 foot scarf would be much too long. Happily, Four's scarf varied in length over his tenure, so there are patterns that are shorter but still screen accurate. I'll probably aim for the season 13 length, which is about a foot shorter than the original length. I really don't want to be tripping over it when I wear it.
The scarf is made up of a garter stitch, which is just knit stitches, so I won't have to be super focused while I'm knitting. I think I'll re-watch some of Four's episode while I knit; it will motivate me to end up with the finished product I'm watching it on the screen. ;-)
When I started knitting, I had no intention of making one of these scarves, but it's kind of the Whovian knitter holy grail. I hope I don't get sick of the scarf or of knitting while I'm doing this. But once I'm done, I'll have to come up with a Fourth Doctor cosplay. I mean, how can I not? I'll have a piece of the costume that I made myself and it wasn't made out of cardboard and duct tape.
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