Goodbye, Bear...Hello, hat!

On Friday, I knew exactly what I had to do. Christmas is coming, I have 3 blankets and a cowboy toy to finish. I consulted my diary and worked out how long I needed to devote to each project.

So far, so good.

I got all of said projects out, checked I had the requisite materials, and faffed about with each for a while. 

All set. Diary rechecked. The brown and brights blanket it would be. 

I made a stack of the finished squares and laid out the partially completed squares with the colours I had chosen to finish them off:

Then, without further ado, I spied some lovely yarn that knits up like Fairisle:

Got out my Jane Brocket 'The Gentle Art of Knitting', for the slouch hat pattern I have made numerous times:

Picked up my knitting needles, and away I went:

I knitted it up in a day, got it sewed, and Ta-dah, a hat that figures nowhere in my diary, on my schedule or on my urgent to do list:

So what in the name of all that's sane, was that about?

I then checked my Etsy shop and found out this chap has been sold, and needs shipping to California:

At that point, I realised I couldn't possibly just send him, but needed to add a little surprise package for the buyer, so got out the old crochet hook:

Finally, I got around to wrapping up the present, ready to post on Monday:

So...Goodbye, Bear. Hello, hat...and absolutely no further ahead with the blanket.

Have a business plan, and resolutely ignore it, that's how I roll! Boom!