what is this mess?

it's a half-finished, much enlarged, acrylic and sari silk baby kimono from the mason-dixon knitting book (a treasured birthday present). problem is, said baby is arriving (at my house, not in the world) for one day on wednesday, which leaves me six days to finish this sucker. that would be no problem except that i also have only six days to finish several assignments for my web design certificate, polish off a chapter, write a paper and fit in a whole lot of research work. typical week i guess.... but in the great battle between academia and knitting... who will win? (actually, i would have to vote for the felt optimus prime puppet that was recently posted on the makezine craft archive.

updates to follow....