Swatch this!

First, a finished object:

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The Rowan Cotton Glace sweater. Which is actually a vest, as it turns out - "No Sleeves" won out in the end.
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Can you believe these buttons? I was looking for "something that would work" Friday night at JoAnn's - and these jumped out at me. They couldn't have been more perfect. Now, for the startling part: the shawl depicted below is actually THE SAME PATTERN as the orange part of the sweater. If I hadn't knitted it myself, I wouldn't be able to tell...!
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Next, things coming up on the calendar:

By digging through my stash/hoard, I found the yarn I wanted to use for the Secret of the Stole mystery-stole knitalong. I bought it back in May figuring I'd do something with it, it was just so pretty - and 100% SILK!! This is key, since I'm "wool sensitive" - in that itchy, sneezy, breaking-out-in-hives sort of way. I'm all about natural yarn that doesn't try to kill me.
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I'm definitely using something laceweight (as you can see from the swatch) - Claudia's Hand Painted Yarns in "Pistachio".
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I couldn't find my pins to block the swatch, so I used a package of 28 quilting needles. And I didn't lose a one of 'em in the couch, much to my husband's relief.

While shopping for buttons for the Glace Sweater, I realized there was no way in heck I was going to find my silver Paw Print buttons in my house. Luckily, the Button Fairy saw fit to show me these:
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They'll do just fine, especially since I was going to do the button band in chocolate brown, and these buttons just so happen to match the beige I'm using.
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This is the progress so far on The Cat Sweater, aka "Kitty Love". At 200 stitches per round, I'm going to have a very good idea of how many stitches I do a day (right now, averaging just a wee bit over one thousand. The variable rib on size three needles is slow going...!).

Unrelated to any new projects, I found the sock yarn I bought back in February. Wendy (of Wendy Knits.net has some absolutely beautiful sock patterns... the trick will be deciding which one the sock yarn wants me to buy.
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And Cup-o-Shawl just wants everyone to know that I haven't forgotten about her.
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