No cats were actually harmed making this shawl but they did get yelled at a lot and got their feelings hurt. And after a while they spent some evenings locked out on the patio for their own protection.

Cats, knitting, wine and tiny beads are not a good combination. One Saturday night Dexter must have dumped over the container of beads about 4 times, Lucy once and then when I screamed at them it made it worse as Dexter made a flying squirrel jump from his cat perch, landed on the beads and I got to fish beads out of my wine.
http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/my-knitting-has-cat-hair-i...

Then I was happy that I put a life line in when I took Benedryl one night as I knit 2 rows not according to the pattern. So you’d think after my whole, “Thank God for lifelines!!” that I’d have put a new one in, right? Wrong. I got cocky on the last repeat and had no life line.
http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/remrants/2307397/1-25#3
Would have been fine but Dexter kept leaping from one side of me to the other which meant he was jumping over my lap while I was knitting. He got all caught up in it and ripped off several stitches. I thought that I could fix it but it was the part where you K2Tog followed by a PSO. I wasn’t sure how to fix that with a crochet hook and I started trying to rip it back the 5 rows to where I thought the stitches had dropped to but then I would mess up frogging the K2tog stuff and have to go even further back. I finally gave up and frogged it back to a row with beads on it and very carefully slide the needles back in (After locking Dexter and Lucy on the patio as they had nothing to do with me having to rip it back quite as far but I was pretty sure that I’d have given up my no fur stance and made hat and gloves with them if they had messed me up even further at this point)

That being said, as frustrating as this was to make, I love this project. The pattern and the yarn go great together. And it wasn’t frustrating due to the pattern or the yarn just a combination of cat aggro and me not putting in lifelines. It really looks pretty and I’m going to love wearing it. Plus because it is cotton, I will be able to wear it when it is warmer outside without worrying I’m going to die of heatstroke. It is amazingly soft too.

The yarn was kind of weird to knit with as it is 4 strands of very fine cotton. Probably if I hadn’t had two cat helpers and had to rip so much out, it wouldn’t have gotten so tangled but it got hopelessly tangled and a couple of places I had to cut the tangle out.

And a big thanks for Vermontgirl for the hilarious lolcat pic. :D