29th Zi'da 717
The gifts for Arlo were really coming along and Faith was pleased. What gave her even more pleasure, of course, was the fact that Padraig was feeling so much better that he was returning to work. The next trial, they were going to go into work together and team teach a class to her former medical students now his 'Physics Applied to Medicine' students. Sitting in their living room, she considered just how good this was, as a step forward for him and her individually and as a couple. It had been a very difficult time for them and they had faced a lot of challenges. None of them like the ones they'd been facing this time last arc, she considered with a brief, mirthless smile. Aelig's messing with them last arc was something she tried not to think about more than she had to.
"What're you thinking about?" Tina asked. Her friend had popped over with the baby again and Faith looked up from the ball of yarn she was just opening. "Aelig," she said and Tina pulled a face. "Well, lets not think about him. What are you doing?" Faith smiled at Tina, the new mother hated focusing on bad things, it wasn't her way at all. "I'm making the thick blanket for Arlo. I'm going to start it in the middle, then work out, in a circle that I turn into a square, which will actually be a diamond shape in the very center." She handed Tina the pattern she had for it, the pattern involved a lot of different stitches which created a number of varying effects on the finished piece.Tina looked at it and smiled. "It looks like it's going to be beautiful. What does that mean?"
Faith looked at the part Tina was pointing at and frowned, thoughtfully, "It's where I'm going to crochet into the post of the stitch below, rather than into the top of it, like I normally would. Doing that... if a crochet stitch looks a little like a capital T, you crochet into the horizontal bar at the top. This way, I'll crochet into the vertical line, which will push the horizontal top forward. It will make a ridge in the work." Tina lifted an eyebrow and pulled a face as she made a gesture of something flying over her head. "It'll make a ridge, got it."
With a slight shake of her head, Faith began the process of making the blanket. Starting with a chain of three stitches, she joined them together to form a circle and began crocheting into that. "I've been thinking, you know, after Bun is here." Tina looked up from staring lovingly at her son and raised an eyebrow. She didn't ask, because Faith would say when she was ready to. "I work too much, and I study too much and I do too much." Tina's expression told of her surprise at this admittance. "I just want to be at home with my husband and my baby. Isn't that strange?" Faith asked the last with an obvious expression of being perplexed by the very notion. Tina shook her head, "no, Faith, it's not strange. It's normal. It's entirely, completely, utterly normal."
Faith sighed, her hands moving, creating the first two rows of single crochet, working swiftly and putting two stitches into every other one, to increase the size of the circle. As it started to grow, she had to go back and work in the shifting colour stitches, but with single crochet that was fairly straightforward. "I think," Faith said, seriously, "that's what's strange. It's normal. It's selfish. It's not anything other than what I want, what we want." Faith looked at Tina and smiled. "And it's what I'm going to do, I think."
"What're you thinking about?" Tina asked. Her friend had popped over with the baby again and Faith looked up from the ball of yarn she was just opening. "Aelig," she said and Tina pulled a face. "Well, lets not think about him. What are you doing?" Faith smiled at Tina, the new mother hated focusing on bad things, it wasn't her way at all. "I'm making the thick blanket for Arlo. I'm going to start it in the middle, then work out, in a circle that I turn into a square, which will actually be a diamond shape in the very center." She handed Tina the pattern she had for it, the pattern involved a lot of different stitches which created a number of varying effects on the finished piece.Tina looked at it and smiled. "It looks like it's going to be beautiful. What does that mean?"
Faith looked at the part Tina was pointing at and frowned, thoughtfully, "It's where I'm going to crochet into the post of the stitch below, rather than into the top of it, like I normally would. Doing that... if a crochet stitch looks a little like a capital T, you crochet into the horizontal bar at the top. This way, I'll crochet into the vertical line, which will push the horizontal top forward. It will make a ridge in the work." Tina lifted an eyebrow and pulled a face as she made a gesture of something flying over her head. "It'll make a ridge, got it."
With a slight shake of her head, Faith began the process of making the blanket. Starting with a chain of three stitches, she joined them together to form a circle and began crocheting into that. "I've been thinking, you know, after Bun is here." Tina looked up from staring lovingly at her son and raised an eyebrow. She didn't ask, because Faith would say when she was ready to. "I work too much, and I study too much and I do too much." Tina's expression told of her surprise at this admittance. "I just want to be at home with my husband and my baby. Isn't that strange?" Faith asked the last with an obvious expression of being perplexed by the very notion. Tina shook her head, "no, Faith, it's not strange. It's normal. It's entirely, completely, utterly normal."
Faith sighed, her hands moving, creating the first two rows of single crochet, working swiftly and putting two stitches into every other one, to increase the size of the circle. As it started to grow, she had to go back and work in the shifting colour stitches, but with single crochet that was fairly straightforward. "I think," Faith said, seriously, "that's what's strange. It's normal. It's selfish. It's not anything other than what I want, what we want." Faith looked at Tina and smiled. "And it's what I'm going to do, I think."
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Design: Fashion: Making intricate blanket patterns with crochet
Needlecraft: Using the post of a crochet stitch to create a ridge effect
Design: Fashion: Making intricate blanket patterns with crochet
Needlecraft: Using the post of a crochet stitch to create a ridge effect
