diff --git a/nih_plug_xtask/src/lib.rs b/nih_plug_xtask/src/lib.rs
index c01a69d2..50158a10 100644
--- a/nih_plug_xtask/src/lib.rs
+++ b/nih_plug_xtask/src/lib.rs
@@ -124,18 +124,28 @@ pub fn main_with_args(command_name: &str, args: impl IntoIterator<Item = String>
 pub fn chdir_workspace_root() -> Result<()> {
     let xtask_project_dir = std::env::var("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")
         .context("'$CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR' was not set, are you running this binary directly?")?;
-    let mut current_dir = Path::new(&xtask_project_dir);
-    loop {
-        let maybe_project_root = current_dir.parent().context(
-            "'$CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR' has an unexpected value, are you running this binary directly?",
-        )?;
-        if maybe_project_root.join("Cargo.toml").exists() {
-            std::env::set_current_dir(maybe_project_root)
-                .context("Could not change to project root directory")?;
-            return Ok(());
+    let project_root = Path::new(&xtask_project_dir).parent().context(
+        "'$CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR' has an unexpected value, are you running this binary directly?",
+    )?;
+
+    // If `project_root` is not actually the project's root because this xtask binary's `Cargo.toml`
+    // file is in a sub-subdirectory, then we'll walk up the directory stack until we hopefully find
+    // it.
+    let project_root = if project_root.join("Cargo.toml").exists() {
+        project_root
+    } else {
+        let mut project_root_candidate = project_root;
+        loop {
+            project_root_candidate = project_root_candidate
+                .parent()
+                .context("Reached the file system root without finding a parent Cargo.toml file")?;
+            if project_root_candidate.join("Cargo.toml").exists() {
+                break project_root_candidate;
+            }
         }
-        current_dir = maybe_project_root;
-    }
+    };
+
+    std::env::set_current_dir(project_root).context("Could not change to project root directory")
 }
 
 /// Build one or more packages using the provided `cargo build` arguments. This should be caleld