"Lord Aukon has seen the sign!"

Save me from "The Wasting", an early title for the story "State of Decay" by Terrance Dicks. A story that almost never got made as the BBC Drama department had stopped Doctor Who originally doing a vampire story a few years earlier because they were producing Dracula.

But it became part of the E-Space trilogy and introduced the Time Lords vs the Great Vampires mythology to the series, which has since ben picked up in the novels and on audio.

Here joining the tapestry are the 'Three Who Rule", formerly Captain Miles Sharky, Navigation Officer Lauren MacMillan and Science Officer Anthony O'Connor who were better known as King Zargo, Queen Camilla and their councillor Lord Aukon.

 

Here are a few of the work in progress and initial sketch markings that were guides for stitching

Expanding Season 18

One thing I did notice about the recent panel was that some of the heads did begin to get larger, although this makes for better detail it will mean I'll run out of space before getting the list of characters I intend for this part finished.

So with the current panel I'm forcing the heads back to a more fixed size, it also means I'll get them completed quicker but the detail will be less, hopefully they will still be recognisable.

So, (Sow?) working down from Season 18 to meet up Warriors of the Deep that were at the top of the previous panel I've just added Pangol for The Leisure Hive.

And last night I completed Lexa from Meglos. Initially I was only going to add the cactus and Meglos as the Doctor for this story, part of the when the actor playing the Doctor was also somebody else panel. However, as I'm re-watching the season whilst working on this section I was reminded as to how excited I was by Jaqueline Hill returning to Doctor Who that I couldn't not include Lexa on the tapestry, although I've had to juggle the layout a bit to accommodate.

The earlier part of the tapestry concentrated mainly on aliens and monsters and featured less characters, it wasn't until the last few years I became happier with some of the faces that I decided to incorporate more characters hence the recent wave of additions on this series of panels. 

Three characters I've always wanted to do were the "Three Who Rule", Queen Camilla, King Zargo and their councillor Lord Aukon from State of Decay, which is my favourite story from season 18. It's with much pleasure and some trepidation that I've started work on Queen Camilla.

Goodnight 2024. Hello 2025

Happy New Year, don't suppose my posts this year will be any more regular that last year, not making any resolutions to do so. In fact the last resolution I made a number of years ago was to stop making resolutions.

That said, here's how the latest panel finished the year. This panel is now going on hold whilst I work downwards on the panel above it. Once this, what will be the top right of the final piece, is nearly full this and the below panel will be joined together before being joined on to the final work.

I have measured up and there will be a small gap between these two and the last one that was attached, which is a good thing as this will allow me to add in a couple of characters that got missed from that section.

A Warriors of the Deep Sea Devil will go to the right of the Silurian once the two panels are joined as it will be slightly over the join. I also need to ensure the two shades of blue Twilley wool used here of the background are not kept together and not misplaced whilst I work on the top panel.

The top panel already has Benny Summerfield, David Warner's Unbound Doctor, Katy Manning as Iris Wildtyme along with Panda on it. Below them I'm starting on Season 18 and working down to meet up with the panel shown here.

And now, a little later than scheduled

I thought I has posted a month or so back about Time Lash, but I had only managed to get half the post put together before something obviously happened. So sorry, but here's a catch up of what I've been stitching since the last post

First up from Time Lash we have the android played by Dean Hollingsworth and the Bandril Ambassador voiced by Martin Gower.

After that I added an icon of 1980s tv Jacqueline Pearce, best known for Blake's7 here she portrayed  Chessene in The Two Doctors

And finally I've been tackling Colin's first adventure The Twin Dilemma.  Here are a trio from that story.

Noma played by Barry Stanton; representing the Jacondans, Azmael played by Maurice Denham, and Mestor played by Edwin Richfield

A Second Revelation

Concluding work on Revelation of the Daleks, and joining Kara is Orcini the Knight of the Grand Order of Oberon played by William Gaunt.

I understand it was his birthday recently, plus I just happened to be listening to a BBC Radio CD of the Time Machine at the same as stitching in which William Gaunt played H.G. Wells.

 

"You before me."

And speaking of HGW, next up comes Timelash. The Borad is already on the tapestry. I won't be doing HG but will be adding a Bandril and the blue android.

A little Revelation

I'm working backwards through the classic timeline at the moment and reached Colin Baker's first full series as the Doctor. 

There are already several Daleks and Davros is already represented from both Genesis and Remembrance so although I'd like to do him as The Greater Healer this story is going to be represented by two of the outstanding guest cast.

First to be completed is Kara played by Elenor Bron.

She will be joined on the tapestry by Orcini the Knight of the Grand Order of Oberon played by William Gaunt. Work has just started on him.

"In The Tribe of the Free we have a saying...

 ... we go forward."

And forward we go with the latest addition to the tapestry, Queen Katryca herself.

This completes the Trial of the Time Lord series, working backwards now through some of Colin's first series of adventures.