Apr 10
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And the most important thing money has to do is coordinate with itself:

If I designed money
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I liked making these, but I am done now. The weaving was a great idea, but ten each way was fiddly and painstaking, and I’m definitely not going higher than 10. I love the numbers, and making them overlap slightly, I’ll miss doing other two digit numbers. The stuff on this one feels like it all fits better than yesterday’s. There are 10 concentric circles in the weaving, 10 strips each direction – all I need the the Count (from Sesame Street) saying "ten, ten lovely curliques" with a flash of lightning at the end and his great cackle.

I was thinking about different denominations, and how we gravitate so easily to the one/five/ten series we know already. I was thinking about twos and threes and 12s, and the old joke about the conterfeiter who asked the mark if he had change for a thirty dollar bill and the mark said Sure – you want 5 sixes, or two fifteens?

I got a picture of Cody in her finished costume:

Isn’t she cute? She’s our teacher for Family Circus, and sometimes Alice and I get her for our lesson on Tuesdays. She has amazing shoulders. She can do amazing stuff.