The Best Laid Plans

You know what they say about "the best laid plans"... Well, mine have certainly gone awry. After I was so enthused about spending the holidays working on this,

here I am instead working on this.

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you might remember the Wolfe Island Gansey (still unpublished). It looked like this.

Turns out I'm incapable of saying no when my baby girl comes home for Xmas and makes a special knitting request. Guess the aran sweater's gonna be mine--in January.