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I'm making progress on my krokbragd rug. Last night I completed a single run of the color pattern, so from here on it's just a matter of repeating it until I get a 36 inch rug.

I got a new adding machine for free this weekend! This is a Star Adding Machine made by the Todd Protectograph Company between 1924 and 1926. It needs to be cleaned and oiled, but otherwise is in pretty decent shape for something almost 100 years old.

The plaid table runner is complete. It's imperfect, and needs ironing, but I'm still pretty happy with how it turned out.

I put a piece of masking tape on my loom and wrote down the Forbes Tartan thread count so I could keep track. This project will require three complete passes.

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Whoever associated plaid with "ludicrous speed" wasn't a weaver.

Now the scarf is off the loom and I just finished the edges. Now it just needs a hand wash and it will be done.

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Making progress on the scarf. This pattern calls for sparse spacing in the weft (6ppi) with a finer yarn and it's weird seeing these gaps. Apparently it all fills in when off the loom and washed.

Pretty excited to start this book. I've found the quality of translation really matters and this most recent translation of We is supposed to be the best.

Today's antique store find: a King razor plated in 22 karat gold. The roller on the top rolls against your face and makes the razor blade move back and forth. I'm actually more nervous about shaving with this than my vibrating Stahly razor.

Multiplication is repeated addition, shifting left for each digit in the multiplier. Here is 12 x 12. Because of the extended complements for subtraction method, division is possible but not ideal.

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To clear the register, you turn the knob on the bottom right side anti-clockwise until all the digits say 0.

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The chain only moves in one direction, so to subtract you have to use the complements method. To subtract 42 from 31342, I add 9999958.

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