Years ago, on a computer bulletin board, I found a text file with the instructions for making the famous Tom Baker Scarf. In January of 1991 my aunt spent 40 hours knitting one for me. This was during the Gulf War TV blitz. Sorry, she's not taking requests.
Here's a picture of my scarf taken on 11 March 1997 with a digital camera. The original text file follows the picture.
This pattern was taken directly out of the Whovian Times.
OFFICAL BBC ENTERPRISES KNITTING PATTERN FOR THE DOCTOR WHO SCARF
Requirement:
Size 4 Knitting Needle - American Size #9 Needles
25 - gram / 1 once balls of double wool as follows:
3 Purple
6 Camel
3 Bronze
3 Mustard
4 Rust
3 Grey
4 Greenish Brown
Cast on 60 stitches. In plain knitting, always slip the first
stitch, and knit in the following order.
8 Purple rows 10 Purple 6 Camel
52 Camel 12 Green 14 Mustard
16 Bronze 8 Mustard 54 Green
10 Mustard 18 Rust 18 Rust
22 Rust 8 Purple 12 Grey
8 Purple 38 Bronze 8 Mustard
20 Green 10 Camel 20 Bronze
8 Mustard 8 Grey 10 Purple
28 Camel 40 Rust 12 Camel
14 Rust 14 Mustard 32 Grey
8 Bronze 20 Green 10 Rust
10 Purple 8 Purple 16 Mustard
42 Green 42 Camel
8 Mustard 12 Bronze
16 Grey 20 Grey
8 Rust 8 Rust
54 Camel 12 Purple
CAST OFF
The tassels are made from 1' lengths of wool. With seven tassels
on each end and each tassel combining all 7 colors.
To crochet scarf:
Single crochet. Use "F" crochet hook, approximately 36 stitches
about 12".
Chain 12 inches across using scarf pattern color (purple)
Chain 2 more then turn and single crochet in the third chain.
Single crochet one row, chain two, turn, single crochet.
Crochet number of rows (after chain) as in scarf pattern.
*When you chain two, sometime you will get a loop (not a smooth
edge); experiment you might want to chain one where it says chain two!
This file is from THE WHOVIAN TRADING POST BBS in League City,
Texas. A BBS dedicated to Doctor Who and other related Sci-fi.
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A note from my aunt who did the knitting:
2-Mar-2003
It seems amazing that it's been 11 years since I did that...but I think of it every January/February. It is also on my mind with war being the topic of the news. As a curiosity, I calculated the number of stitches ...it is 48,360. At 40 hours, I averaged 1209 stitches per hour. That blew my mind!!! Just thought I'd share the numerical madness.