He smiled at Ashley and nodded. "Yep! It's really relaxing actually." He moved to the table next to Aboli, starting to take out some of his things.

"Hi, Eden," he said, hopefully very neutrally (since that's what he was going for) as he looked into his bag to sort through his things. He hadn't actually spoken to her yet, but he didn't want to ignore her anymore. He didn't want to not talk to her, but he had never really had a good opportunity. Every time he was going to it felt really awkward, so he just... didn't. Yet. He was going to. For sure. Soon. Definitely.

He laid out the samples he had knitted—yellow hat, blue and green striped socks, purple glittery scarf and a baby pink semi-dingy sweater—and then laid out the yarns so people could see the colors. "Well," he started in response to Aboli, "I started knitting because of my Gram. Same for my baking, actually. Every time I would go to her house she would do one of the two, if not both, and I just started watching her. Then I started helping her bake, and she gave me a set of knitting needles and showed me how. Now we do both together whenever I go." He smiled thinking about it. He wished he could be there now—his Gram's was his happy place. He wanted to bake brownies with chocolate chips and walnuts and work on their big quilt together. He took a deep breath before he could tear up. "Your cards are very pretty, Aboli. You did a good job," he forced a smile.