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The morning after the Bellparty (Safesun time), Kerron arrives at Isle Esme in response to Elspeth's invitation and starts looking for his uncloid. He comes bearing a little box of danishes.
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"Want me to teach you? My sister would be better for anything advanced - she's very arts-and-crafts - but I know the basics."
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"Right then -" Kerron materializes a square in his mum's colors, spends it, and has a little sewing kit and some squares of fabric. He threads a needle, without recourse to licking it - "You'll probably find it easier to do this if you stick the end of the thread in your mouth first but if I did that the thread and maybe even part of the needle would dissolve" - and knots the end and picks up two squares. "So, there's running stitch, which is the simplest thing. Up, down, up, down, steer it all around for decorating a quilt or whatever, any length of stitches but shorter ones are stronger." He hands over the twice-stitched squares and the threaded needle attached thereto.
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"Except glass and a few other things. Anybody more than fifty percent vampire, and anybody exactly fifty percent if male, is venomous, and vampire venom's powerful stuff." He gestures at the fabric. "If you want both sides to look the same, you move the same distance every time you make a stitch. If you want one side to be the "top", you make it so it's longer stitches going along there and only very short ones to anchor them on the other side."
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Kerron picks up another couple of squares and threads and knots another needle, and waits. "You'll want to nudge the fold in the thread around the eye up some, or you'll be stitching in double the thread," he points out after a while.
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Yep!
Once running stitch has been subdued, Kerron covers backstitch in much the same vein, then blanket stitch, and then:
"And that's pretty much what I know. That and that you can turn things inside out to hide seams. Apply to my sister Aedyt - or the Princess, I guess, she knows how to do most everything - for complicated advanced sewing, tailoring, quilting, etcetera."
Once running stitch has been subdued, Kerron covers backstitch in much the same vein, then blanket stitch, and then:
"And that's pretty much what I know. That and that you can turn things inside out to hide seams. Apply to my sister Aedyt - or the Princess, I guess, she knows how to do most everything - for complicated advanced sewing, tailoring, quilting, etcetera."
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Felicity giggles. "Okay."
He doesn't specifically plan to, but then, apparently he just doesn't specifically plan things.
He doesn't specifically plan to, but then, apparently he just doesn't specifically plan things.
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Yeah, Kerron has noticed. He doesn't remark on it.
"I think the other massively likely hobby is cooking, but that one I don't know the first thing about, I mostly live off bubbly."
"I think the other massively likely hobby is cooking, but that one I don't know the first thing about, I mostly live off bubbly."
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Yeah, that's not overwhelmingly surprising.
"Well, there's lots of stuff to try. I'm picking up windsurfing. Already knew how to regular-surf, it's a little different."
"Well, there's lots of stuff to try. I'm picking up windsurfing. Already knew how to regular-surf, it's a little different."
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"You get a surfboard, you stick a sail on it," says Kerron, "you go out when it's windy."
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"Yeah! Sort of like sailing except you don't have to fuss with maintaining an entire boat."