That's exactly right. *On second thought, the idea of Bolly's iron fist running the Hogwarts black market does make her feel better. If there must be a black market, at least it ought to be run by someone ethically sound. If that's possible. Rosie doesn't know, she'd only been introduced to the idea of a teenage underground economy ten minutes ago.*
Not that it matters if the market is gonna be closed as soon as you restock.
*It does not occur to Bolly that someone might ask Madame Rowan for a potion, get rightfully denied, and then go and seek it elsewhere until it's too late to do anything but post a large warning about the effects of overindulging on the Slytherin common room noticeboard. It's a good warning. It use the glow in the dark spell he learned and everything.*
But I actually wanted to ask you about a non-medical thing entirely, if you're not busy?
Syvie said you taught her how to crochet, and she showed me, and I can mostly do rectangles okay, but I've been trying to do circles and I can't seem to figure it out.
Oh! Yes, of course, I'd love to show you. Do you know all the names for the stitches you know? It's only it'll be much easier if we're speaking the same language. If you can make a rectangle you can most certainly crochet in the round.
*Bolly pulls out his work journal, and flips to the appropriate section, which shows all his notes from making a wristband with Sylvie, and also his notes from making Sylvie's snake.* Um. I think this one is a chain, and this is a single, right?
Well, you're not wrong, Americans will call it a single and we call it a double. It can be very confusing when you're reading a pattern, I'm sure there's some reason why it's like that but I don't know what it is. Let me grab some hooks and yarn, just a minute.
Yes, you've got it. There are other differences in other stitches too but that's really getting very far ahead of ourselves. *Rosie's yarn is a chunky cotton fit for a larger hook, neither of which is her preference but are perfect for creating large, visible, easy to understand stitches.* Now, I suppose the first thing is that there are different ways of making a circle, and the way you'll do it will depend on your pattern or, I suppose, what you want it to look like if you're creating your own pattern. I'd hate to bore you with details you don't need, though, so the important thing to know would be to know what you'd like to make and we'll learn what's best for that to begin with.
Well, my end goal is a sort of simple hedgehog, like this, see?
*He shows her the sketch Dae did in his book, a teardrop body with little cylinder feet.*
So I figured if I could make a circle, I can attach a rectangle to the circle, which gives me cylinders. And then if I attach a circle to a circle, I can make a kind of ball. And then I figured everything else would just be a combination of those. I made my snake mostly out of rectangles and then fudging bits to finish it off with the mouth and things. I thought maybe a circle would just be a rectangle, but gone around instead of up and along, but I keep messing it up somehow when I try and do it.
I see! Well, I don't think I'd say circles are exactly like rectangles, but that might explain where things are going a bit wrong. When you make a rectangle you want nice, straight sides, don't you, so you try not to add or drop any stitches as you go. But with a circle you'll want to deliberately add stitches to make it curved and grow. If you get to the largest point of your circle and you start to drop stitches the same way, you'll have a ball without having to attach anything. Does that make sense?
I'll admit I usually use a pattern to tell me but if I remember correctly you start your circle with...six stitches and increase by six every round? I think that's right, it's something very simple like that. Let's try, I'll remember if I'm doing it.
*Bolly sets his journal and pencil in reach so he can make notes, and does a slipknot to start his stitches, and then watches Madame Rowan attentively.*
Soooo if someone did have some, they'd be going at a premium?
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You can't have frequent customers for Calming Draughts, they're addictive and they do long term liver damage.
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That's exactly right. *On second thought, the idea of Bolly's iron fist running the Hogwarts black market does make her feel better. If there must be a black market, at least it ought to be run by someone ethically sound. If that's possible. Rosie doesn't know, she'd only been introduced to the idea of a teenage underground economy ten minutes ago.*
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Not that it matters if the market is gonna be closed as soon as you restock.
*It does not occur to Bolly that someone might ask Madame Rowan for a potion, get rightfully denied, and then go and seek it elsewhere until it's too late to do anything but post a large warning about the effects of overindulging on the Slytherin common room noticeboard. It's a good warning. It use the glow in the dark spell he learned and everything.*
But I actually wanted to ask you about a non-medical thing entirely, if you're not busy?
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Oh, yes, of course, please ask. I haven't much at all planned for today.
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Syvie said you taught her how to crochet, and she showed me, and I can mostly do rectangles okay, but I've been trying to do circles and I can't seem to figure it out.
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Oh! Yes, of course, I'd love to show you. Do you know all the names for the stitches you know? It's only it'll be much easier if we're speaking the same language. If you can make a rectangle you can most certainly crochet in the round.
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*Bolly pulls out his work journal, and flips to the appropriate section, which shows all his notes from making a wristband with Sylvie, and also his notes from making Sylvie's snake.* Um. I think this one is a chain, and this is a single, right?
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Well, you're not wrong, Americans will call it a single and we call it a double. It can be very confusing when you're reading a pattern, I'm sure there's some reason why it's like that but I don't know what it is. Let me grab some hooks and yarn, just a minute.
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Huh. Is this a count from zero instead of counting from one thing? Is an American double a British treble?
*Bolly has hooks and yarn in his bag too.*
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Yes, you've got it. There are other differences in other stitches too but that's really getting very far ahead of ourselves. *Rosie's yarn is a chunky cotton fit for a larger hook, neither of which is her preference but are perfect for creating large, visible, easy to understand stitches.* Now, I suppose the first thing is that there are different ways of making a circle, and the way you'll do it will depend on your pattern or, I suppose, what you want it to look like if you're creating your own pattern. I'd hate to bore you with details you don't need, though, so the important thing to know would be to know what you'd like to make and we'll learn what's best for that to begin with.
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Well, my end goal is a sort of simple hedgehog, like this, see?
*He shows her the sketch Dae did in his book, a teardrop body with little cylinder feet.*
So I figured if I could make a circle, I can attach a rectangle to the circle, which gives me cylinders. And then if I attach a circle to a circle, I can make a kind of ball. And then I figured everything else would just be a combination of those. I made my snake mostly out of rectangles and then fudging bits to finish it off with the mouth and things. I thought maybe a circle would just be a rectangle, but gone around instead of up and along, but I keep messing it up somehow when I try and do it.
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Sure!
*Bolly sets his journal and pencil in reach so he can make notes, and does a slipknot to start his stitches, and then watches Madame Rowan attentively.*
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