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1. **Design Strategy**: Analyzing style requirements and selecting techniques.
- Project requested: "Bruce Lee" — interpreted as a character/action-figure soft toy inspired by Bruce Lee in his iconic yellow tracksuit with black stripes. The design goal is a small, articulated-style knitted figure (soft toy) with clearly recognisable costume elements (yellow tracksuit trousers and jacket with black stripe down the side), realistic proportions and advanced finishing (shaping, set-in sleeves, duplicate-stitch facial detail, embroidered hairline, an inner wire armature option).
- Techniques selected: flat knitting for firm panels seamed to create three-dimensional forms (stocking stitch with small needles for density), top joining for neck/torso, shaped rectangles for head/torso/limbs, set-in sleeve shaping, intarsia/stranded duplicate stitch for the black stripe, mattress stitch seaming, duplicate-stitch facial features, optional wire armature placement, and careful stuffing for posture. These techniques are advanced in combination (precise shaping, fitted clothing, colour-change stripe, small-scale embroidery).

2. **Construction Plan**: determining the structural approach.
- Construction method: Piece-work, seamed construction. Pieces: Head (flat rectangle, seamed, gathered top), Neck (short tube), Torso front and back (flat rectangles with shallow shaped armholes), Two legs (flat tubes, seamed), Two arms (flat tubes, seamed, with optional internal wire), Separate jacket (worked flat as front/back panels with integrated black stripe by intarsia/stranded or worked plain and stripe added by duplicate stitch), Separate trouser front/back panels or worked as a single rectangle seamed down centre back. Boots/shoes are small shaped cuffs attached to legs. Face and hair are