Theme # 20: Knitting Charm
The Garden and the Sock


There were certain things the two of them would never be able to understand about each other - Sachie Tartan would always be freaked out by Gold's love for gardening, and Gold, by her friend's passion for knit-work.

The latter stepped into the former's house now, her hair dyed yellow-orange at the tips in the spirit of the freshly-arrived summer vacations - a sign that she was glad, of course.

Only to roll her eyes when she found her friend sitting cross-legged on a pretty, blue rug by the fireside, eyes screwed up in concentration, and silver-grey knitting needles at the busy.

How boring.

"Hey, Sachie! Want to go fish a bit?" she asked, as she dropped, on the warm rug, besides her best friend. "Dad says he can drop us at -"

"Not now," Sachie instructed, in quite an authoritarian voice. "I have to knit this sock. Wish I were of age -- a Knitting Charm would make my work easier." She sighed, as if in memory of School, which allowed her ample opportunity to brush up on her skills of said charm.

"You're boring," Gold teased.

"You're a garden," Sachie shot back.