Land of Gales and Hills

•great line; bad read from the VA

•great line; bad scene timing/line pacing

•great line if you have a whimsical heart of light and friendship, you irony-poisoned soul

•bad line out of context; fantastic line in context but you do admittedly need several layers of context yeah but trust meeee

•it’s supposed to be awkward; these characters have a troubled relationship or don’t know each other well yet

You know the one:

This post brought to you by @hollowedskin, who tagged me and said "Gayle might end up doing it."

Which, yes, it is on my list, but also, not right this second. However, I do love a bit of research, so here is what I found.

First of all, this sweater was made from this Mary Maxim pattern:

Which I was about 99% sure of when it popped up on ravelry, but then I found this youtuber who confirmed it:

I have not watched the whole video, and I don't think I've ever seen Michelle pop up on my recommendations, but looking at that thumbnail, her work looks fantastic. I'm gonna go watch the whole thing now and will report back if I am iffy. I doubt I will be.

NOTE: When she made the video, you could only get the pattern as part of a kit. This is no longer true. The link above is ONLY the pattern.

EDIT: Oh, wait, the eyes are different! So, the "official" version of the knitting pattern IS only available in a kit, but if you can tapestry, I think you can easily just adjust the eyes to be more open like they are in that version. But it is still 100% based very much on the wolf pattern.

When I say "use the charts to make the sweater" I mean to use them both for the fox design but also for the shaping. If you make it to the pattern, then you should be working the same number of stitches, so if the pattern says to "bind off" three to decrease for an armhole, just work slip stitches like you would when making an armhole for a crochet pattern.

Again, I cannot stress enough I have zero issue with her making adjustments to fit her style, but I would be duping this to as exact a copy as a could, so watching her decide she wants it very square when there's sleeve shaping and a shawl collar makes me feral.

Ok first up I would love to see a video explaining your process for converting knit to crochet, I'm always amazed by your work!

I had a quick squizz through Michelle's video to see how she chose to do the collar, what stitches etc, but I won't have time to watch the whole thing till Monday (boooo). She's very skilled!

but she knew what she was doing -

New Tutorial now on Envatotut+ : Tutorial : How to Make an Arabic Pattern in Illustrator

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-make-an-islamic%20Pattern%20in%20Illustrator–cms-33230?_ga=2.166287614.1319098169.1562440395-907251159.1562440395

Buy Vector: https://creativemarket.com/MissChatZ/3778025-Geometric-Islamic-Pattern

Your brain is an incredibly energy-intensive organ. It makes up approximately 2% of your total body mass, but at rest it's using 22% of your total energy intake. The only thing that uses the same percentage of energy is all of your skeletal muscle (which is about 40% of your total body mass), with the liver (about 2.6% of your total mass) close behind at 21% (Aragon et al, 2017).

And that's how much energy it's using at rest.

That's the baseline.

So if you're doing lots of intellectual labour, your brain - which already has disproportionately huge energy demand - is going to use even more energy to keep up with the work. That's why you feel so wiped/drained/like you're out of spell slots after high intellectual demand - because your brain is an organ, and you've just done a lot of high-energy work with a high-energy organ.