[Death by Mirrors]

Flame colored gradient still sounds pretty neat, even with actual scales being too expensive.

(I've also ran into similar problems once or twice. For example I wanted to 3d-print a pencil holder consisting of the numbers of pi running down in a spiral. But when I did the math for our fab lab printer, it would've tallied up to around 108 bucks. Yeah, not gonna happen)

Then again I've spent quite a sum on hobby materials throughout the years, just not at once. And I still have a sheet of worbla I should finally do something with ^^;

But next project is probably loom knitting too. I started with the shawl you linked me, then ran out of yarn halfway, and now it's still sitting there waiting for the day I find another of the exact same skein. By now it really bugs me I don't have a single finished loom knitting project, so I'm going to just grab one of the other looms and make something else in the meantime.