Hello hello! It's been a long time. I have a few projects ongoing but life has been hectic lately. Anyway!
Even though I've given up on my masters degree, my colleagues invited me back for their christmas dinner! Very cool, and I participated in the secret santa, once again we had to give gifts made by hand. I had a lot of options for the person that I got but I couldn't find any satisfying pattern because I wanted something small that could be turned into a keychain or pin since she enjoys those tokens. One of the ideas I had was to do something about Dr. Who that wasn't the TARDIS, because she said she wanted a little pin about the show but something that wouldn't be obvious to people who haven't watched the show while people who have watched the show would recognize it. I haven't watched it yet so I did a bit of digging in the wikia and found the pattern/gallifreyan writting on the 15th Doctor's sonic screwdriver very pretty, so that's what I went with.
I made this pattern with this image as a reference (a bit rotated eheh), but of course since I wanted a small pattern I had to simplify it a lot. Sharing this here as a registry of my projects but also so that if anyone who is looking to do it too or at least have a base for their own pattern, you can have it! Hope you enjoy and happy stitching :)
And here is the result! First time using black cloth and first time mixing two strands to get a new mixed color one, but i think it worked very well for the gold shimmer effect! I couldn't get a better picture, but you can get an idea of how it turned out. There's a lot of half stitches and those can get messy! Adapt it freely to your needs, I'm very much a newbie at pattern making.