One has to wonder if the number of rows of each color are not the master control code for the TARDIS or his old school locker padlock.

Doctor Who Scarf history - Doctor Who Scarf

Like I said, You’ve got a lot of brass to make those assumptions about people you don’t even know, and about something you’ve never accomplished nor probably will ever accomplish in your lifetime.Take a bunch of earth-tone yarn of different colors’ and stick it in your ‘forte’‘alternating the colors at random times’ until it’s ‘uber’ clear to you that you don’t know what the Hell you’re talking about. Well, now I’m learning Tunisian crochet, and discovered the Knit Stitch (TNS, it’s usually labeled – though there are at least a dozen other names it goes by, too), so now I’m trying to work up the same kind of thing I had then, to keep track of all the widths and change. Fan legend has it that costume designer James Acheson picked up a load of multi-color wool and asked knitter Begonia Pope to create a scarf, and Pope, perhaps mishearing, used *all* the wool, resulting in a scarf that ran 12 feet long. I made one, with a pattern grid that I could check off when I got done with that stripe, and then promptly lost the pattern grid I had made. Those BBC plans and its variants over the years are plagued with inaccuracies to the scarves used on the show.

Doctor Who Scarf - Etsy UK

The scarf in its original form was only seen in "Robot" and "The Sontaran Experiment," which was recorded right after "Robot.

And, weirdly, a second Whovian named Carjackerposted a similar pattern after his grandmother recreated the scarf back in the 1980s. The Doctor's worn cool bow ties, cricket jumpers, and questionably-colourful jackets, but Tom Baker's supremely long multi-colored scarf is the quintessential Doctor Who accessory. One of the most recognizable symbols of the British sci-fi TV show Doctor Who is the scarf worn by actor Tom Baker from 1974-81.