When I broke my leg five years ago and spent a week in the hospital drinking blue Gatorade at least twice a day to keep my muscles from cramping from disuse I developed a loathing for blue Gatorade. This past week I managed to have a bottle and not be totally revolted. Hurrah for small life improvements! On that side note, blue Gatorade is actually quite tasty, as long as you don’t have it practically constantly.
Today my class went to Toronto to get the fabric for our final project, which is mighty exciting! Only into week five of the course and we are getting the stuff for the final project. A little scary, but still exciting!
On the project side, I have made up my mind on an order for these projects! The blue dragon scale sweater first. Followed by the black scarf with red beads and then the round shawl of the tree of life. I have decided to make the shaping be just on the outside of the front and back pieces instead of trying to fit it into the middle of the piece by adding or taking away an entire scale, just because I think it will look nicer. As many side things as I can do will be half scales, so that it looks seamless when I join the front and back pieces. I’m still trying to decide if I try to do a shaped sleeve head, or just do long rectangles and attach them straight to the body of the sweater like you would for that kind of sleeve. Decisions decisions! I picked up the rest of the yarn that I am doing this out of, and it might not be enough for the entire thing. *gasp!* so I might end up getting a darker colour of the same weight and doing the sleeves (or part of it) in the secondary yarn as well as the collar. Possibly whatever I do for closures as well, which I haven’t decided on yet (of course)
Off to be exhausted and then go for a long day at school tomorrow. My brain shall ponder the possibilities of things!
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