Fun with Fezzes and Cool Bow-Ties

Posted by ABBAFan456


Yesterday, I decided to have some fun and design for myself a bowtie...

... and a fez!

Cool, right?
And, while I was at it, I made a miniature bowtie for my friend's 11th Doctor doll.

Bowties are cool!  :D

David Tennant's .... Ponytail?

I know that this again has nothing to do with art, but I just have to post this! :P

In honor of the fact that David Tennant currently has a ponytail, I decided to have a little fun and make a clip-on ponytail for my friend's 10th Doctor doll:

Courtesy of the Official Doctor Who Tumblr Blog

 Like it? :)

The pony-tail by itself.  :P

Doctor Who Dolls!

Posted by ABBAFan456

 I know this has nothing to do with art, but I felt like sharing this because it is Doctor Who-related.  :)

These are my homemade Doctor Who dolls.  From left to right: Donna, The 10th Doctor, and Rose.  The Doctor and Rose don't belong to me but to my friends who helped.  Donna belongs to me, though.  I also sewed all their clothes.

Making the Doctor's clothes was very tricky to make because first off, I have never sewed anything with pockets before this and I had never done anything with a collar, either.  So that was a bit of a challenge for me. :P

 

Rose's clothes was fairly simple to do.  I had based it off the clothes she wore in "Tooth and Claw" (which is actually one of my favorite episodes).   I had a lot of fun making her jumper as well as debating with a friend whether to put a flower on the pocket or not.  As you can see, we decided that it looked better with the flower.

Donna was extremely easy to do because I didn't have to make her any new clothes!  :D  The dress actually belongs to one of my other dolls.  I plan on making her a wedding dress.  I'm thinking that I should give her pockets so that she doesn't have anything to complain about...  :P

These are the only Doctor Who dolls I  have, but I am working on a bunch more. I currently have Amy, the 11th Doctor, the 9th Doctor (who is my favorite of all of the docs), Jackie, and Captain Jack as doll heads waiting to get bodies.

So just stay tuned and I'll probably have more to come soon.  :)

Craft: Fourth Doctor Scarf

Posted by Allison Rose and Nina Avalon

In his seven year long tenure from 1974 to 1981, the Fourth Doctor, played by the marvelous Tom Baker, was famous for wearing his extremely long, multi-coloredscarf.  Nowadays, it is possible to buy replicas from all over the web, but wouldn't it be so much cooler to say that you made it yourself?


For this craft, you'll need the following supplies:

 - Yarn skeins in seven colors:

1. Purple
2. Red
3. Beige
4. Brown
5. Yellow
6. Dark green
7. Gray

 - Nifty Knitter loom and hook
 - Crochet hook
 -  Scissors
 - Ruler
 - DVD case (optional - the authors recommend using a Doctor Who DVD case for optimal enjoyment of project, as they're fun to watch while looming)

Courtesy of Amazon

 Yarn looming is a much easier and quicker way to knit than using traditional needles.  This three-part tutorial will explain how to use the loom, as well as how to add on other colored stripes of yarn.  The tutorial uses the smallest loom, which has 24 pegs.  This loom will make a narrower scarf than the original, so if you're particular about this, you can use one of the larger looms.

Speaking of stripes, each stripe on the Doctor's scarf has a specific length.  For this craft, we recommend heading over to DoctorWhoScarf.com for some excellent scarf patterns.  This pattern, for example, is for the original scarf, as in subsequent seasons, new ones were made.

Now, let's get started!

Scarf

Using the looming method shown in the tutorial, you can add on as many colored stripes as you want until the scarf is at the length you would like.  Use your ruler to measure the stripes.  (Unfortunately, this looming method won't give exact stripe lengths, but they'll be pretty close.)

Allison's scarf got to be about eight feet before she was satisfied with the length.  At that point, she decided to finish off the scarf with the last three stripes, 2 inches of brown, 6.5 inches of beige, and 1 inch of purple.

Decorating with Tassels

The third part of the aforementioned tutorial shows how to decorate the scarf with tassels.  The scarf that Tom Baker wore originally had twelve tassels on it, each tassel using a strand of each yarn color.  Because our scarf is narrower, you might want to use half the amount of tassels.

The video tutorial recommends wrapping the yarn around a plastic DVD case to get the right length.  That'll give you approximately 14 inch strands.  (Now that you know that, though, you don't really need the DVD case anymore, unless, of course, you're going to watch the Doctor Who episodes inside. :P)

When you're done, this is what your scarf will look like:

W is for Who
Scarf made by Allison Rose