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Hop Into the TARDIS For 1980s Doctor Who Craft Time!

by Jamie Frevele | 1:16 pm, March 30th, 2012


The weekend is upon us, it might rain (at least in the New York tri-state area), and some of us will be stuck for nothing to do. Except for these Doctor Who crafts from the 1980s, which are just as mint as you might imagine. We’ll tease you with this: TARDIS. Sleeping. Bag.

First, we thought we’d show you how to turn all your Ken dolls into Doctors!

Next, a plush K9!

If you’re more of a robot cat person, maybe you’d like a K9 messenger bag! Good news: There is one!

There’s a pattern for this guy:

And these guys:

And this guy’s costume (excluding the gun):

You can also put on your own Doctor Who puppet show!

There’s a pattern for the 4th Doctor’s trademark scarf, for long walks on the beach:

But if you’re just a regular-type fan, there are sweaters! They will definitely not make you look square!

Lllllllllladies:

We saved the best for last: The TARDIS sleeping bag, for dreams about time and space travel.

Okay, we don’t have the actual patterns, but if any of you figure out how to make any of these things, you’re going to have to tell us: tips [at] themarysue [dot] com

(via io9)

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  • Anonymous

    I want that K-9 bag like.. yesterday.

  • http://www.facebook.com/1shewolf JoAnna Luffman

    The bag would be very easy. Find any messenger bag pattern, and find an old terminal computer font, print the letters to use as an applique. The head would be the “hardest” and then all you need is to draw out the shape of the side and make a strip (looks to be ~2″ wide) to go between. 

    The sleeping bag looks like it’s quilted, but using large white peices and bias tape for the black would make it easier. Quilt batting as a inner. 

    For the knit patterns, there are plenty of knitting grids you can drop an image on (height and width are different in knitting for those that don’t know) and implement it into a basic sweater pattern.

    Now, back to knitting my kindle fire cozy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/1shewolf JoAnna Luffman

    Also, the book itself can be found, but all used, and worse, all a LOT more than the street price ever was. 
    http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1838638.Doctor_Who_Pattern_Book 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R6ODYVHCB23JAQC33NPS5RLUN4 Kifre

    Expiry date reached at: “Lllllllllladies”.  XD

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717875043 Anonymous

    I was just thinking that.

    (Of course, if I had the TARDIS sleeping bag, I could go sleep, wake up yesterday and then get the bag on time…)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=717875043 Anonymous

    (I was *also* just thinking “ha, a Widdershins avatar, nice to see another person reads that,” and then read your name more closely and realized who you were.  So, er, random “I enjoy your comic” comment!)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=161500752 Rachael Roberts

    I need that sleeping bag to be part of my life <3

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=659768962 Lauren Ekkebus

    HA! I had that book! A year or two ago I gave it to a friend who was better at crafting and a much bigger Who fan. One of the best presents I’ve ever given.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jill-Peters/747158381 Jill Peters

    I have this book, ever since it first came out.  Now I need to learn how to knit!

  • Mary Kravenas

    Thanks to a wonderful best friend and the winter holidays, I’m now in possession of this book. I have the K-9 messenger bag on my to-make list.

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