Another Monday?

Do you ever feel like Monday lasts more than a day? I felt off all day yesterday because I wasn't following my usual schedule. I had to take Rainbow to a dentist appointment in the morning (and ran into another knitter in the waiting room!), which meant I pushed back my daily walk to late afternoon. My head was also feeling wobbly all day from a migraine I had on Sunday. And last night I accidentally walked into the corner of our wooden bed platform and may have broken a toe. So when I woke up this morning, it felt like I was repeating Monday over again. I managed to make coffee but I hadn't actually consumed any yet when I realized that instead of grabbing the jar of cinnamon to sprinkle on my oatmeal, I had actually grabbed smoked paprika. I'm glad I discovered that one before I took a bite! I am certainly hoping that the day only improves from here.

Because of the migraine hangover yesterday, I thought it best to stick to projects that did not require thinking or counting, so I did some spinning and knit on my scrappy charity sock:

I've got about another inch to go on the foot before I start the toe; I've decided for the sake of simplicity to make these socks my size. I have quite a bit of the red/orange/brown variegated yarn I used for the gusset and first part of the foot, but I was getting a bit bored with it and so decided to switch to another yarn for the rest of the foot and toe. I have been weighing each scrap and using half or less of what I have for this sock so that the second one will at least use the same yarns in the same parts of the sock. Because of the self-patterning nature of some of the yarns I've used, I know I won't get a perfect match, but at least I know the socks will look like they belong together.

I got in a ton of knitting time on my Aldous over the weekend, on Sunday especially (I had three Zooms that day!). This sweater is completely different in its construction compared to my previous Isabell Kraemer sweater (my favorite Humulus). It's still top down and in the round and starts with short-row shaping after the collar so that the back of the sweater sits higher than the front, but that's where the similarities end. This sweater has saddle shoulders, meaning that the stitch count for the shoulders don't change until there's enough fabric knit to cover their width. I'm hoping that's something you can see in this photo:

The back (with a decorative purl line down the middle) is at the bottom of this photo, and the blue bead is the beginning-of-round marker. I am now working sleeve increases, which have purl faux seams on either side. If I'm counting correctly, I have about 15 more rounds in this section and seven rounds in the body increase section that follows before I split the sleeve stitches from the body. After that it'll be just lots and lots of stockinette with the occasional purl for a faux seam. Should be good knitting to do while reading!

Today is shaping up to be a busy day at work, with another commencement deadline at noon, and at home -- starting today, we're having our roof replaced! Our house was built in 1931 and still has its original slate roof, but enough slates have fallen off in the past year or two that we decided to bite the bullet and have it done (it helps that the next roof should outlive us). I'm hoping it doesn't get too noisy while the roofers build their scaffolding today for my sake, and I'm hoping that it's decidedly Tuesday for you today!