Meant to post this ages ago when Cristin gave me this fabulous old Doctor Who comic.
Isn’t it awesome? It’s awesome.
I love especially reading the letters to the editors in these old magazines. In this brief note, some crazy person explains just exactly how to knit the scarf that the fourth doctor wears.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper crazy person, but you gotta admire the dedication. This is pretty much equivalent to all those lovely people who made Jayne’s hat, which also doesn’t suck.
I like how Phillip Salomon’s all trying to call out the comic book people with his rambling know-it-all-ness when I don’t think he really knows how to knit. I’ve consulted my various knitting books and the interwebs and have determined that he made up the term “yarn length”. Yarn length (if referenced at all) refers to the actual length of the entire strand than makes up a skein. As I thought before he’s referring to the number of rows. And I confirmed this by looking at Wikipedia’s picture of Fourth Doctor… Just in case anyone was confused. Glad I could be of assistance.
Comment by Cristin — July 31, 2008 @ 11:51 pm