Baby Doctor Who Scarf

The Doctor Who S14 Baby scarf is finished. I was aiming for 48" but it turned out slightly longer at about 52". It is about 3 1/4" wide. The baby is not walking so there is no issue with tripping. :-)

I chained 16 with a G hook. I used leftover Deramores Stylecraft Special DK  from the S16-17 scarf for my yarn colors

BBC - my color
Purple - Stylecraft Special DK Burgundy
Camel -  Stylecraft Special DK Camel
Mustard - Stylecraft Special DK Sunshine
Rust - Stylecraft Special DK Copper
Grey - Stylecraft Special DK Graphite
Greenish Brown - Stylecraft Special DK Khaki
Bronze - Stylecraft Special DK Walnut

I will put the pattern up at Crochet Cabana and probably at Ravelry as well.

Now I need to sew the tails in on the S16-17 as well!

Have you ever found a pattern you liked but it was written using a different terminology than you are used to - in my case a British pattern perhaps? I have a conversion chart at Crochet Cabana but I ran across this video by Mikey at the Crochet Crowd and I liked his presentation and thought I would share it here.

I also ran across this video demonstrating how to make yarn out of paper! Who doesn't have paper? 

I also mustn't forget to mention Red Heart's yearly 12 weeks of Christmas. A new pattern appears each week in both crochet and knit.

Another great idea is shown in this video demonstrating how to make a double crochet as the first stitch of your row without using the chain-3 method. She calls it the chainless starting double crochet.

I have seen this numerous times and have yet to actually wind my yarn this way. I really need to do it. It's a center pull method.

Happy crocheting!
Sandie

Doctor Who season 16-17 scarf

I apologize for my long absence. So many things have happened the past few weeks with which I won't bore you.

My fingers have not been idle, however. I have begun a season 16/17 scarf. This is my 11th Doctor Who scarf. I know this because someone asked at Stitches and I had to go count. heh

I have figured out the crochet rows for this scarf based on Gene Fender's inches pattern at doctorwhoscarf.com . My gauge was 5 rows per inch but it didn't always work out exactly to that in the working of it.

I'm still making the scarf so I haven't uploaded the pattern to Ravelry. It is, however, available at the Stitches group on Facebook. It is single crochet every row. It is just the number of rows and colors that you need and that might vary with your personal tension so feel free to mix it up.

I chained 36 which gave me an 8" wide scarf. The original knitted scarf was much wider, at least 10" and possibly to 12".  If you want a wider scarf just make a longer foundation chain.

I am using Stylecraft Special DK yarn from Deramores in the UK and I have to tell you I love this yarn. I also love shopping at Deramores. I ordered this yarn on October 1 and it arrived October 4 - FROM THE UK! That is better service than I get here in the U.S. As I recall they are always quick in delivery. Plus I had a coupon and free delivery with orders of $50 or more. I used Paypal for payment.

Here is my progress thus far. I made it "sit up" so you could see the colors better which makes it look uneven but it is not. The rows are straight. :-)

As I've noted in the past, these colors are not perfect, but they're good enough for me. The yellow is a bit bright and orangy. The brown does not have any red in it as the bronze should. Still, the camel is right on and the copper is nice. The grey is true grey which is fine. The green is pretty good. My main trouble is with the yellow. If Stylecraft would come up with a gold, I would be one happy camper.

When I finish with this scarf, I will have all the 4th Doctor season scarves but season 15. I have not made a duplicate scarf either but that's not a "season". I've made a few Season 14s. I have kept one of each season and given or sold others. Plus I have the knitted season 12.5 that daughter made.

I have been a little disappointed in Doctor Who (read: a LOT). They decided to put out the full Doctor Who season 7 with many extra features that the parts one and two did not have. This actually made me very angry. Besides the parts one and two, I purchased the two specials separately so I ended up paying much more than if I'd waited and bought the full season. Lest you think I am an idiot, I did look at the current listing for the full season 7 before purchasing and it was exactly the same as the parts. Then lnot long ago they changed it. I wrote to BBCA as the discs say "as seen on BBCA". Had I purchased the parts from them they would have exchanged them, but I bought them at Amazon. I haven't approached Amazon since it's been so long since I purchased them. I doubt they'd do anything about it now. I might bring it to their attention though. I also wanted to know if the episodes were cut since BBCA shows cut versions. They assured me they are not cut, so at least I did gain some info.

So that is what I'm doing now. I have a grey scarf partially done also but haven't gotten back to it. I am not good about having two projects going at one time. I feel the need to finish one before going to the other.


Happy crocheting!
Sandie

Doctor Who babyghans

I have finished the two baby Whoghans. :-)

My measuring tape fell apart while I was trying to measure these. Overwork I'm thinking. LOL The two ghans are slightly different in size but generally about 38 x 40.

Both are made with the same yarns with the exception of the brown. One uses Knit Picks Sienna (right) and the other uses Stylecraft Special DK walnut (left).

Both use the same pattern (my adaptation of the original knitting numbers from Chris Brimelow at doctorwhoscarf.com; used with permission of the new owner).


I will have the pattern written up in a few days.

The foundation chain is 151. I used a G hook and worked single crochet rows. The ghan pictured on the left is edged in khaki. The one of the right is edged with Sienna. The edging is (sc, ch 1, sk 1) using (sc, ch 2, sc) in corners.

There are 195 rows and 44 color stripes.

The yarn (original BBC colors - my colors):
Burgundy - Stylecraft Special DK Burgundy
Camel -  Stylecraft Special DK Camel
Sunshine - Stylecraft Special DK Sunshine
Rust - Stylecraft Special DK Copper
Grey - Stylecraft Special DK Graphite
Greenish Brown - Stylecraft Special DK Khaki
Bronze -Stylecraft Special DK walnut for the last one (on the left) and Knit Picks Brava Sport Sienna for the first one (on the right)

I have been very pleased with this yarn. Only a few knots to cut out, though one of these I missed because it was only 1 strand knotted and I have to rip back a row which did not make me happy. I can't complain too much though because mostly it was smooth sailing.

I've gotten used the orangy yellow yarn now but if I found a deeper gold tone DK yarn I'd probably switch to it. The other gold I had was too thin. This one was perfect.

Now I'm going to work on finishing that Season 18 I started way long time ago with the Lion Brand Suede. I have several feet done but there are many more to go if I do the whole thing. I'm not enamored with the suede yarn. It's not that there is anything wrong with it really. Perhaps I'm just thinking off all those tails to sew in later! LOL

Besides that UFO to finish, I have in mind to make some scarves for Knitting for Good (they also take crochet) and the Bridge Project. It is starting to get cold in the north and they really could use help in that regard.


Happy crocheting!
Sandie

Doctor Who baby afghan

More progress on the Doctor Who baby afghan.

This is about 14 1/2" done, which is a bit more than a third of the way. I've worked 18 stripes out of 44. In my version there are 195 rows total in those 44 stripes. I've worked 76 of those.

I'm working with Deramores Stylecraft Special DK (from the UK) and a G hook. The foundation chain is 151.

This yarn is wonderful to work with. It's quite soft and I can't recall having to cut out any bad spots thus far which means no extra tails to sew in. There will be quite enough of those!

I make no claims that this is an accurate representation of the original scarf in any manner since this is to be a baby afghan. To follow a scarf pattern would be many feet long and way too long for a baby or toddler afghan. We'll see how long this one ends up being. I see at least one more in my future as I fiddle with the numbers to get it as I want it.

There ARE 44 stripes as in the original and they are in the same colors as the original scarf, but the stripes are naturally of different number of rows to get the same effect in a smaller package. This is a personal decision. You may want to do yours differently. In my previous one piece baby afghan I had to change things up as it was getting too long. This one is more "accurate" let us say as a percentage of the original numbers. Truthfully, only mega fans will care if you use the same percentages. If you have the general color scheme it will be recognized as a Who production.

As noted in many other posts, the original Doctor Who scarves were knitted and I am crocheting so if you want absolutely accuracy well, you wouldn't be making a baby blanket firstly as there wasn't one in the original. LOL But for the scarves true to life would be knitted. 

I'm quite happy with my crocheted projects but I do love my scarf knitted for me by my daughter. She also made me a blue Who inspired filet scarf . It goes well with most of my outfits so I wear that one quite often when weather permits. We don't have that many cold days in Louisiana so I'm always trying to decide which to wear. Right now we're talking degrees in the 90s so no scarves!

Happy crocheting!
Sandie

Doctor Who baby afghan

I have begun my third Doctor Who baby afghan made with colors of the Doctor Who 4th Doctor scarf.

For this one I'm using the same yarn (as listed below), but a different chain (151) and different numbers for the individual stripes of color. 

The yarn I am using is 
Burgundy - Stylecraft Special DK Burgundy
Camel -  Stylecraft Special DK Camel
Sunshine - Stylecraft Special DK Sunshine (a bit too orange)
Rust - Stylecraft Special DK Copper
Grey - Stylecraft Special DK Graphite
Greenish Brown - Stylecraft Special DK Khaki
Bronze - Knit Picks sport Sienna (too dark, not enough red)

I've worked about 7 1/2" so far with a G hook.

I'm also working on a second daisy square. My first one went off to Krystal this morning.

Happy crocheting!
Sandie

baby whoghan 2

The one piece baby whoghan is now complete as well. It just needed side edgings. I used a (sc, ch 1) on the sides in the burgundy since both ends were worked with burgundy.

Finished size is approximately 24" x 30". I used a G hook, chained 101. I used the same yarn as the other baby whoghan. Most of this yarn comes from UK.

Purple - Stylecraft Special DK Burgundy
Camel - Stylecraft Special DK Camel
Mustard - Stylecraft Special DK Sunshine (a little orangy and bright)
Rust - Stylecraft Special DK Copper
Grey - Stylecraft Special DK Graphite
Greenish brown - Stylecraft Special DK Khaki
Bronze - Knit Picks Brava Sport Umber Heather (this is really too dark but the only one I had in similar weight)

I started off using the counts for the knitted Season 12 inspired baby afghan at Witty Little Knitter, but with thinner yarn, a smaller hook, and had to fudge towards the end as I felt it was getting too long for the width.

I do like this yarn very much. I like the light weight and I haven't had a lot of problems with knots, thick or thin sections and such as I've recently. I went with the Stylecraft Special DK for the yellow color this time even though it was a bit orangy as the Big Value yellow I used for the other one was a bit on the thin side.

When I have gotten my yarn stash down to a manageable level, if that is possible, I might consider ordering more of this yarn for a larger afghan. We'll see what happens.

As always, I think of how I could have done this better. I think I would have been able to work the pattern exactly if I'd chained a larger number. I was thinking maybe 151 which would add about a third of the scarf width. I'll have to see how much yarn I have left. If there's enough I might try it. :-)

Of course, I'm saying exactly, but the pattern is knitted and I'm crocheting so it can't really be EXACT. heh

In the meantime, I'm almost finished a teal scarf.


Happy crocheting!
Sandie

Doctor Who baby afghan 1

 One Doctor Who baby afghan... done!

You will remember that this is a complete scarf pattern using the inches knit pattern at doctorwhoscarf.com . However, it is not worked to the inch scale but rather uses the number of inches noted to work 4 rows to each inch. In other words, if the notation was 3" then I worked 12 rows (3 x 4), for 6 inches I'd work 24 rows (6 x 4) but the respective bits would not measure 3" or 6".

I used a G hook and single crochet for all rows. The strips have a sc edging around and are joined with a whipstitch. The outer edging is (sc, ch 2, 2 dc, sk 2) all around.

Each strip is 174 rows.

Yarn - 1 skein each though I didn't use the full skeins ...
Purple - Stylecraft Special DK Burgundy
Camel -  Stylecraft Special DK Camel
Mustard - Big Value shade 671 (thinner than rest)
Rust - Stylecraft Special DK Copper
Grey - Stylecraft Special DK Graphite
Greenish Brown - Stylecraft Special DK Khaki
Bronze - Knit Picks Brava sport Sienna (too dark, not enough red) 

To give a bit more explanation ....

The pattern starts with a chain of 35 in the burgundy at the lower left in the picture. I worked to the third camel stripe, but didn't finish that stripe. I ended the first strip a few rows in (5, I think). For the second strip, I had to work backwards. So I began with graphite (bottom center in the picture) and ended with the finish of the camel stripe at the top. That way the camel stripes were next to one another and continued the "scarf" pattern. Then for the last strip I began by finishing the graphite section (lower right) which was at the bottom of my 2nd scarf strip.

It needed a bit of thought. I would have preferred not to edge the strips, but in the end I decided to do it. It breaks up the flow of the strips some, but I think it works okay for the overall look.

Here's the picture of the WIP showing the flow.

The finished size of the strip baby afghan is about 26" x 38". I would have liked it a bit wider. One possibility for another ghan would be to work wider strips, say perhaps a ch 50 or 60.

The one piece Who scarf-afghan is almost complete as well. I am also working on a simple dc scarf for something different.

Happy crocheting!
Sandie