The patterns had taken her long enough to understand; and that was just when she was looking at scarves -how many rows were the norm, should she make them thicker? Thinner? Did she need to make scarves? And she was getting better, she could tell because threading the hats together wasn't just as lopsided as her first attempts.
"One day, you joke about that, but one day you will have a jumper with a lovely big H on it, to go with all of ours." Because if she was going to make Chloe a Weasley jumper, the whole family needed them, didn't they.
The light squeeze on her captured fingers had Kelly thinning her lips in a stretched smile, taking the slice of comfort offered. She knew that eventually she'd be done processing, she'd need to deal and it would likely not be pretty -lots of ugly crying and some screaming. But she wasn't there yet, she had to be strong for Chloe, she had to be able to show Scott he didn't need to worry about her.
It would happen, but not yet.
"I think Evan-ing is the best approach," she managed a small laugh, grateful that so many people would be here, with her, helping Chloe to get through this, to come out the other side relatively okay. "I know she feels guilty, I don't know if it's because she made it out okay, or something else." The number of times that Chloe was apologising was really making Kelly form some assumptions that she didn't want to make without really talking to Chloe. "I just don't think she's ready to talk about it yet."