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I’m stuck. I’m done with the practice Feather & Fan. I’m ready to move on to the real thing. But I don’t know how to bind off the practice lace and get it off the needle. I’ve transferred it to the 60″ Addi circ to look at it stretched out, but I will eventually need that needle.

These are the first sixty rounds of the pattern. Not perfect, but only one truly wonky bit: the large hole near the center.

My conference call knitting is a ribbed coverlet for my disgustingly spotty office chair. It goes slowly because I’ve lately actually had to participate in the calls. My subway knitting is a baby hat in turquoise elsebeth lavold silky wool. It goes slowly because the commute isn’t really long enough—ten minutes—to get much done.

But mostly I’ve been reading Wikipedia and The Codebreakers by David Kahn, the revised and updated version. I gave it to my mom for her birthday earlier this year—she did want it—and decided I wanted to read it too. It is an interesting history of cryptanalysis, 984 pages of text, with another 197 of endnotes and indices. I’ve made it through WWI, but that’s only about a quarter of the way through.