Stash Diving; Or, What's Lurking in the Deep Dark Depths

...so continues the tale of the Stash Diving Adventures of one Canary Sanctuary - when forced by economic forces unseen into digging for fibrey gold in her own backyard...

Gadzooks, it's been ages since I've even thought about this stash-redux attempt!
But, since there's been some progress, I wanted to give everyone an update re: this particular yarnny re-discovery.
The Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool has been sitting on my coffee table nigh on three months now, resolutely being ignored by meself. My wholehearted attempts to project-focus and actually complete designs has produced a dissatisfaction and reluctance to knit that has only just recently been traced back to this aforementioned wholehearted project-focussing attempt.

But oh, when I got my hands on this other yarn, it was like an illicit affair! I was off and running (or knitting/betraying...procrastinating!?)
While superfluous punctuation may not serve to sufficiently illustrate my enthusiasm on beginning this lanolinic liaison, perhaps this teaser progress photo will.

This is how I spent my lunch today - sitting in the sun, tossing cookie crumbs to the cute sparrows, and getting a knit on this project (which I've happily titled Campaniform.*)

With only two hanks of this yarn I embarked on a chancy and froggingly-frightening mission. Now, I'm within an inch (or two, and - if I'm lucky to have enough yarn - three) of completion!

I now put a call out: does anyone know where a knitter can get herself some small, fuzzy-fabric-covered leopard print buttons? Or ribbon? My own brief interwebs search proved fruitless. It's a rarity indeed for eBay and Etsy to let me down, but my surfings today have failed.

*I can't tell you how much fun I've had with this site.