Some progress shots, for Friday:

Here's the Simple Garter-Stitch Prairie Shawl, a little farther along. You can see the way the colors are grading. I'm really quite pleased with it, the color changes are very subtle and you can't really pinpoint the place where it stops being avocado and starts being peridot:




I also knit some on the buttonhole band of the Bookworm vest. I thought I'd get it finished all the way, but I simply did not have the energy. And I'm also thinking about buttons. I originally bought some rather simple geometric buttons for the vest, but my recent purchase of the Art Deco leaves (I thought they were Art Nouveau, and they still look Nouveau-ish to me, but the time period listed on the card is 1920-1940, which would be Deco). So here's a distance-shot of one of each:



And here's a close-up, showing more detail of the buttons:



They both have things to recommend them. The pros of the more geometric buttons (the one on the bottom) is that I bought them specifically for the vest, so I have just the right number. Also, they're a plainer style - I'm afraid the leaf buttons might be a bit "lost" on the marled yarn and they might look better on a future sweater to be knit of a plainer color. And the geometric buttons are more of a "machine age" style, which seems to me to work with this vest. Also, shank buttons are a PITA to sew on to knits. And I bought "backer buttons" for the original buttons so I could do the job right. But I still kind of like how the leaf buttons look....they're more romantic, or something.

I will probably change my mind back and forth eight or ten times before I actually sew the buttons on.