Showing posts with label third doctor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label third doctor. Show all posts

Thursday, October 14, 2010

More Distractions - Show Time.

After all the baby stuff it was nearly time to submit for the Melbourne Show. With work being busy as well I didn't have enough time as I would have liked. In the end though I did manage to get one cotton doiley and one toy dalek completed.


This is the doiley I submitted. I was very pleased to be awarded third place. This photo isn't very good and the doiley seems to have sagged quite a bit. I'll have to add more starch next time.


The Dalek didn't do as well. Not surprising considering I had to enter it in the "Any Article of Crochet Not Previously Mentioned" class. To be fair he was commended. But he was beaten by two lacy table cloths and a baby blanket.


No wonder he's sheepishly hiding in the corner of the display case.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Doctor Who

The plan is to crochet miniature versions of all 11 regenerations of Doctor Who. I know it's been done before and there are heaps of patterns on the internet. But they haven't been done by me.

Anyway here are the first five Doctors.


First Doctor - William Hartnell




He's supposed to have checked pants, but the check pattern I made up came out as diagonal lines. I think the stripes are distinguished.

Second Doctor - Patrick Trouton



The first doctor to be in colour. His pants are supposed to be tartan. To do it properly I would need to make a much bigger doll. Instead I just used the different colours in alternating rows. I guess you could call it pixelated tartan.


Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee



He still needs some neck detail. Also, although this regeneration was partial to capes I don't think he ever wore one exactly like this. By the way, curly hair takes ages to sew.

Fourth Doctor - Tom Baker




This is where things got complicated. Making the head, body and jacket was easy enough. The curly hair was tricky, but I only had to do the bits around the hat. What took most of the time was the scarf. I miniaturized the pattern from *the Doctor Who scarf website*. I had to repeat the pattern twice as I messed up and the scarf wasn't long enough. It took three evenings to make, but I think it was worth it.

Fifth Doctor - Peter Davidson




Another tricky one. Mostly because I made the coat the wrong colour to start with. On the up side it meant I could practice putting the red edging on.