March Update

Stitching, Crafting & Writing - a busy March

Tapestry

The last few updates have concentrated on the Doctor Who Tapestry. I've been keeping a record of how long the work on the ancient one and the background area for him has taken based upon the playing time of the audio books I have been listening to whilst stitching. 

The previous post had the time at 43 hours 20 minutes. Additional work undertaken since then.

I completed most of the work on the Ancient One whilst listening to the first of the two new Target Novelisation Audio books: The TV Movie & Dalek a total of 9 ¾ hours. Then I moved on to the background. Backgrounds need to be simple, so I’m going for the green gas cloud that was used to kill the Ancient One at the end. This also includes binding the edge of the material. This takes some time. This was started listening to the other new novelisation audio books:  The Crimson Horror and the Witchfinders.

Doctor Who – The TV Movie by Gary Russell

Read by Dan Starkey, BBC Studios (5 hours)

 

Doctor Who – Dalek by Robert Shearman

Read by Nicholas Briggs, BBC Studios (4 ¾ hours)

 

Doctor Who – The Crimson Horror by Mark Gatiss

Read by Catrin Stewart & Dan Starkey, 

BBC Studios (4 ½ Hours)

 

Doctor Who - The Witchfinders by Jay Wilkinson

Read by Sophie Aldred, BBC Studios (4 hours, 10 mins)

 

So here I am, working with 20 shades of green to try and blend the smoke swirling up around the Ancient One. 

After another 8 ½ hours of the latest Big Finish Doctor Who releases.

Doctor Who – Stranded 2 

Doctor Who – The Lost Stories 6.1 Return of the Cybermen

Doctor Who – The Lost Stories 6.2 The Doomsday Contract

Bringing the time spent on this one character to over 61½ hours so far.

 

Next Tapestry Update

Building the Gateway

This has taken a backseat over the last couple of months again, but I have managed to make a little progress as the below photos will show. The left side now has basic wood and Daz clay coverage. I will get the basic coverage done before trying to clean up and add any details.

 Previous update

Writing.

As you will know, I seldom reveal too much about writing projects whilst they are still in development.

All I will say is that work on the new werewolf trilogy is going well, we are proofreading book two and I’m making final edits to the text for book three.

Book three has had some additional writing added to it, so I returned to the original notebooks, pulled out the pencils and got scribbling.

First draft is always handwritten in pencil. This filled the second skull book that was used for book three so I had to take up a new notebook, not having another of the skull books I found this nice little denim covered book in my collection of notebooks to use for the next 20K or so words.

Hopefully, I’ll be revealing more details of this project soon.

 

DrWho Tapestry - Ancient One Update Part II

Ongoing work with the Ancient One on the tapestry part two - so, time taken for this character 

Here's the progress so far: 32 hours 41 minutes, timed by the duration of the audio books played during the stitching reported on the previous update.

Add to that...

Doctor Who - Gallifrey Time War Volume 4 

 (Big Finish, 5 Hours)

Doctor Who - The Fourth Doctor Adventures

Series 10 Part One (4 Hours)

Total running time: 9 Hours

Callan Volume 2 

(Big Finish) - 4 hours

The Diary of River Song - Series 8

(Big Finish) - 4 hours

Torchwood - Drive

(Big Finish) - 60 mins

Total running time - 9 Hours

The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice

17 Hours 20 Minutes Running Time

Therefore, since last blog post update another

35 hours 20 minutes have been added to the time taken to stitch the Ancient One

Additional Update for the chin

Classic Companion Chronicle 1.1 Frostfire

(Big Finish) 60 mins

Space 1999 Vol. 1 (Big Finish) - 3 Hours

Fourth Doctor Adventures

Series 10 Part 2 (Big Finish) - 4 Hours 

Bringing the total number of hours so far up to:

43 Hours 20 minutes work on the Ancient One

Next Update

DrWho Tapestry - Ancient One Update

Ongoing work with the Ancient One on the tapestry. Having been asked how long does this project take, I'm measuring the time taken to complete this figure by the number of audio books and audio dramas that I've listened to whilst stitching in the evenings.

Here's progress so far:

Since the first post featuring the start of the Ancient One, the top of his head was completed whilst listening to:

Torchwood: The Crown (Big Finish, 60 mins)

Doctor Who - Time Apart (Big Finish, 120 mins)

Doctor Who - Scorched Earth (Big Finish, 120 mins)

Doctor Who - Blood on Santa's Claw (Big Finish, 120 mins)

Total running time: 7 Hours

Side flaps completed listening to:

Tenth Doctor Novels Volume 4

16 Disc set, playing time 16 Hours 31 mins

First tentacle:

Doctor Who: The Savages (BBC Audio - 4 Hours ) Target Novel read brilliantly by Peter Purves

Doctor Who: Beyond the Doctor - The Kairos Ring (BBC Audio - 70 mins)

Torchwood: Coffee (Big Finish - 60 mins)

Total playing time: 6 Hours 10 mins

So, along with the Hand of Fear audio book featured on the original post I'll leave you to add up the time taken so far, then make a guess at how long the whole project might have taken so far.

The story continues here

A few hours later

After several weeks of staring at computers screens all day, every day,  my brain finally went flip this week and refused to start up one morning, a deep thudding resonated throughout my skull resulting in me having to take a day off.

Surfacing late in the afternoon I avoid the monitor screens and took a couple of hours of just sticking wood onto to cardboard, smearing PVA glue everywhere and then followed that up with some DAS putty crafted to look like stonework.

In other words, a little more finally got done on the stone archway project. Photos below.

Of course this is going to be a location setting from either the Karl trilogy, or maybe from the new work that is currently in progress...

Next update on this project

A Stitch in the Time Lord

 A quick update on the Doctor Who tapestry. Last year I posted a few photos of the parts of the latest panel that I had been working on.  These being the sections for Jago & Litefoot, the TV version of the Counter Measures team, Shada - the unfinished classic era story and the stories that featured the lead actor in a non-Doctor role, The Massacre, Enemy of the World, Meglos, and Arc of Infinity.

I have now finished joining this panel to the bottom of the main canvas, the join runs straight through the additional small features The Eye pendent from Greatest Show in the Galaxy, Krynoid seed pod, Kklack from the Target novel Dinosaur Invasion, the sea weed and gas pipeline from Fury from the Deep, eye plant and Spiradon from Planet of the Daleks, The Great One from Planet of the Spiders, the viking runes from Curse of Fenric and the Misos Triangle from Planet of Fire.

I'm now working on the Ancient One from the Curse of Fenric

If you're wondering how long it takes, well, this is how far I got with the Ancient One whilst listening to the newly released audiobook for The Hand of Fear.

Next update post

Getting back to it

After bit of a break from the latest model, here is the current state, as it was left post #Lockdown900 (I've seriously lost count now, some say we're now on 3, I thought it was number 4, so I'm going with the arbitrary number 900, which The Doctor seems to use for their age now, irrespective of which regeneration it is).

As an aside I'm also over on Instagram now as djkettlety2

Update: Didn't get as much done as I had hoped, it seems it was too cold for the glue to set properly, everything just kept sliding off

Happy Christmas

It's been a tough year. So I'm going to wish you all the best Christmas possible. 

Once again, over the next few days, Dec 24th - 27th we are going to make book 1 of Karl's adventures FREE to download from Amazon Kindle, and between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, you can get a countdown discount on the downloads for books 2 & 3 as well.

Amazon.co.uk  Amazon.com

Don't forget to take a second look at those interesting items of packaging you find at this time of year, and let's see what we can make of them in the New Year.