Police Box Sign Scarf Pattern Copyright Notice The TARDIS and Poice Box design are copyrighted to the BBC. This pattern is a fan effort that is made available for free: no profit is being made from this pattern. Permission is granted for users to download, print, and knit this pattern for personal use. This pattern is to be made available only through this website, entropyhouse.com. I DO NOT grant permission for this pattern or any adaptations thereof to be sold by anyone or reprinted or republished anywhere else. Further, I DO NOT grant permission to anyone to sell items made from this pattern or any adaptations thereof for a profit. Yarn requirements: Blue worsted weight yarn - approximately 400 yards if doing tassels - if not making tassels, only need 330 yards White worsted weight yarn - approximately 150 yards These yarn estimates are fairly generous, so there is a margin of error already included. I recommend picking a yarn that is slightly rough-textured side, rather than a super-smooth yarn. The rough grippiness helps the colorwork stitches to lock together and look nice and even. The scarf as pictured was knit with KnitPicks "Wool of the Andes" worsted in colors "White" and "Winter Night" (blue), at 110 yds/ball. It took almost all of three balls of blue yarn to knit the scarf - making the tassles required part of a fourth ball. It took only a little over one ball of white yarn - only the final X was knitted with the second ball. The tassels as shown were each made from 40 12-inch pieces of yarn, doubled. Needle requirements: DPNS or a short circular needle in the size required to give you a nice-looking fabric. I used size 7, but yours may differ. I found that a 16-inch circular was juuuust small enough for comfortable knitting at the gauge I used, but if you are knitting at a tighter gauge you may need a shorter circ. Gauge: Since this is a scarf, getting a nice-looking fabric with the yarn you choose is more important than getting gauge, so use whatever gauge give you the nicest looking results! My scarf was made at a gauge of 4.5 stitches and 5 rows per inch, which gave me a scarf about 5 and a half feet long and 5 inches wide. The pattern: Cast on 40 stitches and join in a loop, being careful not to twist your stitches. Use a stitch marker to keep track of the beginning of the rows. Start the chart at row 0 and end at row 300. The chart is in greyscale for easy printing. The actual colors should be white text on a blue background - though if you prefer the reverse, that is also correct for some versions of the TARDIS! You will knit the charted pattern twice, once for the front and once for the back. So, for example, you will knit the 20 stitches shown for row 1 once, then knit those same 20 stitches a second time before moving on to row two. Knitting the charted row twice makes one full row of 40 stitches. Use stranded knitting technique, running the color not being worked in a loose float behind the stitches being worked. Refer to a knitting book or website for more information on stranded knitting if you've never done it before. If you're familiar with stranded knitting, yes, there are some very long floats here, some up to six inches or so. Normally with stranded knitting this would be considered a Very Bad Thing, but because these floats are safely hidden inside the tube it does not cause any problems. The most important thing is to KEEP YOUR FLOATS LOOSE. It may help you to knit the scarf inside-out, with the floats running around the outside, then flip it just before you seam it shut. Here's an example row in case you still have questions: row 26, the first row with two colors. First, you would knit 3 blue stitches. You would then drop the blue yarn and pick up the white yarn (taking care to wrap the yarns as you switch to avoid a hole - I do this by always picking my new yarn up UNDER the old yarn). With the white yarn, you would knit 14 stitches. You would then switch back to the blue yarn and knit 6 stitches (3 stitches to finish the first repeat of the charted row, 3 more stitches to start the second repeat). Then back to the white for 14 more stitches, and finally do 3 more blue stitches to finish up the row. Once you have finished knitting the full chart, bind off. Blocking the scarf when you are done will help even out the colorwork and flatten the tube into a double-sided scarf. If desired, add tassles at each corner.