there are two different charted filet crochet motifs can be worked horizontally if you know your length, or vertically if you don’t.

9/5/14 ~ the main body is completed, and now i’m working on the decrease rows. i have only a small ball of my first skein of yarn left.

i worked 6 motifs vertically, then will turn the wrap horizontal to make the decrease rows. the motifs are charted and the decrease rows are a written pattern. (i shall try to make a chart for these rows as well.)

9/7/14 ~ decrease rows completed. bottom edge is approx 57”, top edge approx 40”, height approx 15”.

i typed up the bulk of the pattern on 9/8/14. still need to work on a chart for the decrease rows.

9/8/14 ~ finished the border and lightly blocked it.

full disclosure: the bottom border i got from Vogue Knitting Stitchionary, Vol 4, Crochet. i modified it slightly, to fit into this pattern.

i was inspired by Amy Schilling’s Doctor Who Fair Isle charts to make my own downsized TARDIS and fiddle with ideas for decorative mesh rows as well.

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some numbers/numerology/meanings:

1 - William Hartnell

2 - Patrick Troughton; two series of Who - Classic & New; two Doctors in Black&White

3 - Jon Pertwee

4 - Tom Baker; number of sides of the TARDIS on the outside

5 - Peter Davison; Davison’s son-inlaw is “two times 5” (#10); number of ‘official’ pieces of the Key to Time that were found before the Doctor tried to make it work

6 - Colin Baker; number of sides on the TARDIS console; number of pieces of the Key to Time; number of Doctors in the new series (so far)

7 - Sylvester McCoy; number of classic Doctors with more than two episodes

8 - Paul McGann; number of classic Doctors

9 - Christopher Eccleson

10 - David Tennant

11 - Matt Smith

12 - Peter Capaldi

13 - Jodie Whittaker