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I am back at work today. My work's rules changed to 24 hours symptom free, and everything cleared up on Sunday.

I finished my second of three unsleeved sweaters! I got the majority done on Sunday, and yesterday I just had to finish the sleeve cuff and then do the button bands and collar. I played yarn chicken and lost. Had to rip the collar back one full row, and then used EVERY LAST SCRAP, including one of the tails from where I had joined a section and an extra-long tail from the other sleeve to finish the bind off. One of the longer strings from the original knitting had breaks in it, and it reminded me that Guido had "hunted" one of the balls when I brought the yarn home, carrying it into the living room in his mouth while crying that "I caught it!" cry he so rarely did lol. It should be fine.

Then I blocked it, which I NEVER do right away. Now that the tools are out, I'm going to block a different sweater tonight lol.

Since those two are done, there is one more left. The sleeves are fully cabled, which means I will have to do them one at a time. I have already put the collar and button band on, and it's been sort of blocked bc it got wet with ceiling juice when my apartment flooded. (I washed it already) I CAN DO THIS! I even pulled out a ball of yarn to start with! I might even start that tonight.

AND THEN!!! More sweaters!!! I already have yarn for two, an open cardigan and a buttoned cropped cardigan. I no longer support the designer, but the yarn was purchased for that specific project, so I may go ahead with it after all. I haven't decided yet. One designer I like just put out a new pattern today that she is hosting a knit-along for, so there's a good chance I'll hop onto that too. I don't tend to buy sweater quantities of fingering-weight yarn, but I have 2+1 of another set that I had started to make a shawl with and have since given up. It's not quite enough as written but... I might be able to make it work.

I'm free!! Free of the sidewalk! My car DID start on Tuesday (took 20 mins to defrost the ice enough to be safe to drive) and I had to go backwards first, but I escaped the street! I'm back on my driveway and I am STAYING THERE until the roads and the drive into the complex are drier. I picked up my roommate from her work and then we did a Costco run, where we found a giant squishy baby Yoda. Not the Squishmallow, but suitably large and squishy! I'm very pleased with it. And pleased to be off the street!

Hi-LAR-iously, I have a pick up note from Canada Post to go get a package from the drive-through post office (major eyeroll). I have until the end of the month to figure that out.

Last night I was feeling ambitious, but not ambitious enough for sewing, so I got my one-sleeved sweater and started knitting the remaining sleeve. I knew it had been awhile that it was in-progress but I had forgotten just HOW long. I started it December 2018, and I remember it being the sweater I taught myself how to knit continental on bc I had smashed my right hand on my steering wheel a few weeks earlier and cracked my knuckles open. I couldn't tension the yarn with my right hand anymore.

Sleeve #1 was started well in advance of its completion in August 2020. So I went to pick it back up and YEAH so EXCITED to GET THIS DONE. Did I note what size I was knitting? Of course not. I guessed I made a medium even though I said in my Ravelry notes that I was going to knit a smaller size.

Now, of course, my shape has changed since 2018 lol. Ah well. Let's get it sleeved and try it on first before making decisions.

My work project is almost finished, and in the long boring hours of coiling books by hand, I am back on my 1920s wardrobe bullshit. I have Plans for *all of the things*. I have energy for all of the things when I cannot work on them (of course).