Tried With Fire

I've been a Doctor Who fan since high school. Tom Baker  was my first doctor, so he's still my favorite with his slightly manic and quirky sense of humor, jelly babies , and, of course, the iconic scarf. I've always wanted to knit a copy for myself, but its size isn't very practical. It would probably mop the floor or be a tripping hazard not to mention being very bulky to wear. Thanks to Ravelry, I found this pattern  scaled down to normal human-sized proportions. I used size 7 needles and Knit Picks Wool of the Andes worsted  in the colors recommend at DoctorWhoScarf.com . The site has patterns by season, yarn and color suggestions, and tips for joining the stripes and weaving in the ends. It also has everything a Whovian could ever want to know about the scarf's various iterations. (Did you know the scarf had a stunt double?) The pattern is plain old garter stitch, so it was a fairly quick and mindless knit. I finished it in less than 2 weeks with knitting...

Pattern  here .

I had a coupon code for a free mouse pad from Shutterfly . I could have been conventional and used family pictures, but I decided to have a little fun.

1. I like to have a mental plan for my posts each week. However, if I don't have enough time to write (like this morning), I will shamelessly borrow ideas like this one. 2. Coffee or tea? Tea! In the summer, unsweetened iced tea sometimes with a smidgen of lemonade. 3. Chocolate? Most definitely! Dark, Trader Joe's Pound Plus bar, but not all at once. 4.  Food? Home-style comfort, not fancy-schmancy gourmet. 5. I've entered and finished NaNoWriM o three times. The stories would be categorized as fan fiction because it is easier to borrow characters than invent your own. I don't take my novels very seriously as the last one was fan fiction based on Calvinist humor blogs with church history, Star Wars, and Doctor Who thrown into the mix. Maybe I'll post it one day with profuse apologies to Messieurs Duncan , Eddings , Slawson , Luther, Spurgeon, and Owen. 6. Another example of less-than-serious writing: I once wrote a duet for Mr. Collins and Lady Catherin...