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Doctor Who Tom Baker Scarf Tutorial - The 12.5 Join
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my name is Alex Murphy I am a doctor who
scarf knitter and I am here to give a
tutorial on how to do the 12.5 join as
it's known this join appears on the the
original scarf from halfway through
season 12 all the way through the season
14 scarf and it still exists on the
scarf today because it's still on the
scarf that we have today we have very
high resolution images of the join and
can therefore determine exactly how it
was made when it was made which is great
so today I will be teaching you how to
do that just a little history on this
particular joint so this is the very
beginning on the season 12 scarf the
original original pattern you will see
that there's a big block of gray I think
it's 23 ribs the first stories of Tom
Baker's time were filmed out of order
from how they were released when you
look at robot which is the debut story
it has this gray black because that's
that's the first time the scarf ever
appeared on screen so that's that's how
it showed up and then they filmed the
Sontaran experiment next and it still
had this grey block either during
Sontaran experiment or after Sontaran
experiment they cut this gray block out
and to my knowledge we don't really know
why there was some idea that they wanted
to shorten it because Tom Baker tripped
and hurt himself on it during Sontaran
experiment but I think we've determined
that that injury himself he broke his
like collarbone or something I think we
determined that that injury was
sustained during a stunt and not because
of the scarf he was like falling down a
quarry or something but at any rate no
matter what happened they decided that
were grave lock needed to come out so
then they removed it and then they
filmed the arkin space but of course
they they reverse the order of Sontaran
experiment in the arkin space so if you
look at that stories you'll see in robot
it has this grave lock and then the next
one chronologically is arkin space where
this grave lock is mis
seeing and then the next one after that
is the Sontaran experiment in this gray
block come back and then from then on it
doesn't have this and never ever ever
shows up again obviously because they
removed it the other funny thing and
you'll notice here in the scarf that
I've done these little fake rows to
represent the old spot one of the very
odd things about it is that when they
reattached because they cut out this
gray block right so then they had this
part or this part of the scarf when they
reattached this bottom hat they did it
backwards they I'm sure that they were
like that some intern was like halfway
through fixing it and he went oh crap
and they just left it like that so
literally for arkin space and then
everything after Sontaran experiment
this bottom bottom chunk of the scarf is
actually backwards yeah so that's the
history and now I'll show you how to
accomplish the join so these are the
materials that you are going to need for
this project the first thing that you
need is you need something to secure the
stitches that you will be cutting around
so you're gonna need something to secure
this these stitches right here on the
purple end and then these first stitches
here on the on the green and because if
you don't when you cut and remove this
these gray stitches do all these
stitches will then be live and you're
just dropping all of these stitches
I used circular needles to knit the
scars in the first place and I just run
that run the needle through and I use
the core to secure the stitches so I'm
gonna need two things to secure so I've
got two sets of needles here what I used
to do before I did that I used to run
floss through it but I found that that I
love the interchangeable use better so
you need something to secure the
stitches with you're going to need a
pair of scissors and you're going to
need just a needle you're not going to
need a bunch of needles like you see
here you're just going to need one
darning needle and that's all you need
so if you've got those things you are
set to go so the first thing we're going
to do is we're going to go about
securing the stitches that will be live
once we
have cuts the ste crow this isn't true
ste crow if you don't know what a sneak
is then you can just google it it'll
show up but it is a dummy row of
stitches that are intended to be cut out
so in a way it's kind of a sneak so
that's what I call it so when you cut
out your ste crow these stitches will
become live so we need to we need to
secure these stitches that we don't want
to lose so what I do with my needle here
is I like to come in from the backside
because you can really see much better
and from the bottom here I like to just
go in from the bottom of the stitch now
what you want to avoid doing here is you
want to avoid taking this and then going
down into this one then going into this
one and doing that because that's going
to twist all of your stitches so that
they don't match up
it'll be like every other stitch will be
twisted and every other stitch will be
oriented correctly so it doesn't really
matter if you go from down if you go
from above in or if you go from below up
as long as once you start you do it the
same way on every stitch so I like to
start here from below up so that's what
I'm going to do
you
all right there we go so that's the last
of my last stitch there you really want
to make sure that you get your first and
last stitches sometimes they can get
kind of lost so here we go so you have
pulled it through so now all of these
stitches here are all being secured by
my cord and you're gonna do that on both
sides so on the last tutorial that I
filmed I initially filmed it incorrectly
and had to go back and sort of fix it
but it's sort of very choppy so what I'm
doing right now I'm actually I have a
commission where I'm taking my season
twelve and converting it into a season
thirteen which means that I need to make
the twelve point five join so I'm just
going to fix it here so that there's no
problem dude so I secured it off these
stitches right and you're going to then
take your scarf this is kind of cool
because you get to see what it looked
like before
take it flip it over like this so that
you're looking at the front side and
then what you're gonna do I personally
don't recommend doing the color
interchange right there if you're
planning on doing this joint because
it's a pain in the butt to take out but
I guess in a way this is more screen
accurate because this is what they
actually had to do on the real scarf so
also an interesting feature of the 12.5
joint is that the yarn that they used to
actually make the join was a row of
green that they removed so so instead of
securing off back here where the green
actually ends we're gonna secure it one
row back not one rib back but one row
back so that we can remove one row and
then use that yarn to make the joint so
you're gonna look at it from the front
side here so the stitches that you're
gonna want to bind off here are is this
one here that's the one and this one not
the top but the bottom one on the front
side so what you're gonna do so what I'm
gonna do I'm gonna start from the bottom
I'm going to go in like that
and then come around do it again
and come around do it again and like
that all the way across with that row
so I've secured off all of these greens
to just here on the front side the next
thing that we're gonna do is the scary
thing
so who's never done this before you will
find that the scariest part of it is
that it's really not that hard to do it
should be a lot harder but it's not
we're gonna take our scissors and we're
gonna cut our gray blocks out and if you
have if you're converting a season 12
into a season 13 but you have a big
block of gray I recommend cutting closer
to the green because it will unravel
easy back the way that you knitted
trying to unravel it upwards towards the
direction that you were knitting it gets
caught on the edges and it becomes a
pain in the butt you have to manually
pull it out every time so I like to cut
up here if undoing that and here we go
all right so the cut has been made the
scarf has been separated and the next
thing that you're gonna do is you're
gonna pull all of this excess yarn out
you don't need it anymore
you
all right so once you have finished
removing all of the excess yarn the next
thing that you're gonna do is make sure
that you have removed your row of green
and you're going to take your darning
needle that you've chosen you're going
to thread your green yarn onto the
darning needle so also I forgot to
mention make sure I mean if you're going
through the trouble to be this screen
accurate make sure that before you start
this that your purple and green blocks
are misaligned so this purple and red
see this is the backside here and up
here the green this is the correct side
this is how it is on the reel scarf and
if you're going through the trouble to
be this screen accurate
please make sure that that's that yet
that you're doing that
otherwise you'll be disappointed you'll
have to take it out and do it again this
is honestly the easiest thing you will
ever do in knitting I'm not kidding you
at all this is the easiest thing that
you will ever do all that you're gonna
do it's so simple and it looks so cool
is you're gonna take this and you get
your first purple stitch there on the
end and you're just gonna run the yarn
through that first purple stitch pull it
through and then you're gonna go up here
to your green stitches from the next
green stitch here and you're just gonna
put your yarn through that one Green
stitch and then you're gonna move back
down to your purple stick it into the
next one pull it through and you're
gonna go back up here to the so on up
here and that one you're gonna pull
through and you're just gonna continue
alternating purple and green stitches
like this for the rest of the length of
the scar
it is super super easy
you
here it is all done see this goes all
the way across I've got the end of the
yarn poking out here so this is how it
looks when you pull it through after
you've got your yarn all the way out the
other end what you're gonna want to do
is you want to take this this end and
you just want to gently tug until you
get that slight bowing on this end you
just want to make sure that there's no
slack in here so you don't want it like
if you pull on it like that like that's
not how it looks but take that pull it
out just to the point where you get that
that slight bowing on the end and that
is your join so all you're gonna do now
to finish it off is you're going to take
this and you're just going to darn this
up into here so that it disappears
becomes invisible and that's the whole
thing it's that simple
and this is the 12.5 join this season 12
and a half join and it is the easiest
modification that you will do on the
time Baker scarf alrighty I hope you
enjoyed this happy knitting
you
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