I’m slightly in awe. Three weeks later, the knitting is done. I think I’ll take a break from the endless knitting I’ve been doing, but then I just have to weave in all those yarn ends and make some tassels for the ends.
I didn't unroll it for a while before I finished. This was a bit of a shock.
Final length before stretching: 8'6"
I kind of destroyed my needles. They used to be solid purple, but I wore off the coating.
Looks like it’ll be coming with me to Seattle after all.
I’ve been meaning to post an update of the scarf, but I didn’t have much else to write about. So I guess I’ll just write more about Doctor Who to go with it.
First of all, look how beautiful:
Yeah, there's going to be a lot of weaving those ends.
I’ve been knitting for hours straight when I get home from work, and it has been insane. I started last Tuesday shortly after I posted about the yarn. In that time, I’ve done 474 rows of 60 stitches, and I’m nearly halfway done. I’m estimating right now it’ll be about 8 ft when I’m done, before stretching and tassels. I think I’m knitting so much because I’m so excited for it to be done. Once it got to be a substantial length and started really looking like a scarf, I was so pleased with how much I had done and how great it looked that I just kept going.
That and the fact that I’ve been watching Doctor Who nonstop while working. Seriously, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows. Ever. David Tennant is truly a brilliant Doctor, but the other characters are fantastic. I literally cried when I watched the Season 2 finale last night when one of my favorite characters left the show. Netflix instant streaming is a miracle for this stuff. The first four seasons are up on there (well, the first four new ones), and considering I’m going through these episodes at 6-8 in one sitting, I couldn’t handle having to wait for a new disc every 4 episodes. I’ll just have to deal with it for some of the older ones that aren’t online yet.
I won’t go on and on about everything I love about it, but I highly, highly recommend checking it out. The first season definitely has some cheesy special effects because they were just starting up and didn’t seem to have much of a budget, but if you can look past that, the characters and storylines are amazing. The Doctor technically continues on from the old series that ended in 1989, but they make a good transition at Series 1 in 2005 that you can easily start watching then and understand what’s going on.
Plus it doesn’t hurt that David Tennant is adorable.
Today, I am very excited. Today, I embark on a quest I have been meaning to do for a few months now.
A few months ago, I finally got around to actually watching Dr. Who. I had seen a few episodes here and there, but I never sat down and watched them all. My favorite really has to be David Tennant, because he’s amazing and he’s a spectacular Shakespearean actor as well. But the most recent Doctor, Matt Smith, is doing pretty well so far. I’m still working on the really old ones now, and it has been so much fun.
Now, this all leads to my new project: the scarf. The scarf is one of the most iconic items related to Doctor Who. It was created for Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, and was really only ever worn by him, despite its fame. It is about a foot wide, comprises of seven different colored stripes, and hangs to the floor when wrapped around Tom’s neck.
I’ve decided I’d like one.
Using this awesome site for yarn suggestions and patterns, I ordered 11 skeins of yarn a few days ago from various sites, and all of them have arrived as of this afternoon.
It’s going to take a while. It’s not exactly a complicated project, it’s just huge. The original plan was that I’d like to have it finished for PAX in Seattle September 3, but I doubt that’s going to happen. I’m a somewhat slow knitter, and I can get bored of it quickly. I usually just knit while I watch TV, so we’ll see how far I can get. I’ll post updates along with future entries to show my progress.
Excited!
