mad mod and flashy gypsies

The Mod coat has been a thorn in my side ever since I started it. Once I finally figured out the problem with the pattern, I'd be zooming along and realize that, hey!, I picked up/dropped a stitch here, so ribbit ribbit...thing is, I never managed to find out where the slippage came from, and the pattern never got messed up. I've finally made up all the stuff I'd frogged, plus a little--nothing like running in place for a couple of weeks--so late, late Weds. night, even though it was really just *too* late, I cast on the cardigan fronts for gypsy. Now I'm just zooming along on gypsy; I'd like to finish the fronts in a week, which I think is doable, then back to Mod for a week, then gypsy's sleeves and making her up.

I guess I won't finish Mod by the end of the summer, as I'd planned. Alas: the best-laid plans & all. I've never had as many problem with a project as I've had with this one, so I guess it's just my time. Plus, there's the Phildar summer top knit-along, whenever Alison decides to kick that off, and that'll set me back even more. But that sweater will be awfully useful in the sultry fall around here...

There is something going on that's going to keep me from spending as much time on my knitting for a little while, but I can't tell you yet...