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"I'll trust your assessment," you say.

You make a mark on the line with your own magic construct and pull a length of yarn to match it.

"What about width?" you ask.

"Oh, right," Raven says. "Let's see..."

She shapes her hands around an imaginary figure, and then creates more a cylinder than a Coke bottle.

"Are you sure that's the right shape?" you ask with a smirk.

"The sweater only needs to fit over her, not form fit her," Raven says with a stern look.

"Alright, alright," you say. "Keep the mannequin up, I'll need to keep referencing it for the sizes."

You sit down on the couch and thread your size 8 knitting needles.

"I don't know why I didn't question this earlier," Raven says as she sits with you. "But you know how to knit?"

"Well, it's only a little different from sewing, which I had to learn to do for making repairs to my own clothes."

You assess Starfire at a medium to small, so you'll go with no less than 65 stitches for the front and back segments of the torso. Luckily you bought plenty of yarn. You go knit one, purl one all the way to have 66 stitches. You switch to a garter stitch after that for six more rows, and you have the bottom of the sweater.

The size 10 needles come in now, and you use the stockinette stitch technique. You go with this until you've covered about 15 inches of the piece's length, then you bind off the first four stitches of the next two rows. This is to shape the arm holes where the sleeves will later be attached. To bind off, you knit the first two stitches in the row, and then loop the first stitch over the second stitch. Then knit one, and loop the first one over the second one.

After that, you finish off with more stockinette, and have the complete length. This is a long process to have the two armholes, a front and a back, and of course a hole for head. The sleeves are much the same, with the intent of having the seam on what will be the top side, once the entire sweater is assembled.

An hour or more passes as you do this, and Raven yawns from boredom.

"Sorry," she says. "I just thought this would go faster."

"It's alright," you say. "It isn't easy on me, either. My hands are killing me."

"How much do you have left?"

"I'm only halfway through the first sleeve."

"Okay, hold on," Raven says.

She sits up and she holds her hands out. You put the needles down and hold her hands. You can tell she uses Restorative magic and your hands are all better.

"Thank you," you say.

You get back to knitting and finish the sleeve.

A) Take a dinner break
B) Finish the second sleeve