Fruity Pebbles~~Bam! Bam!

Last we left you I was moaning about my beloved’s surprising under appreciation of my knitting.  Today I have the same project, The Baby Surprise Jacket, knit in yarn of his choosing.  Apparently Fruity Pebble’s was his daughter’s favorite cereal growing up and the yarn does look surprisingly like FP so I have named the project Fruity Pebbles~Bam! Bam!    Loads of pictures.  First a close up of the sleeve shaping to show you the color in all it’s glory.  The yarn is the discontinued Regia Bamboo Color in a color way called ‘Clown.’  It actually hurt my gray loving eyes a bit to knit these up but truth be told the yarn has a lovely softness and sheen from the bamboo.

Next up we have a shot of the jacket with buttons.  I had great fun picking out the buttons and enlisted the aid of multiple shoppers who happened to cross my path at Michaels that day.  Somebody suggested velcro which I suppose would be a baby friendlier option but honestly the mom to be is the sort to notice a loose button long before it becomes a problem

Oh and I knit matching socks to go with since what is cuter than a baby item with matching socks {or hat/mitts}?  Nothing I tell you.  Nothing.

And here are the little socks all on their lonesome.  Aren’t they adorable?

I also finished my birthday pressie for myself which consisted of the stashdown approved purchase of Vostok kit.  It wasn’t really a purchase since I won a gift certificate to a shop last year and the GC covered the kit. It is blocking right this minute:

There are more baby items in the future.  Not so bright baby items.  Here is a shot of the yarn gifted to me by a fellow Ravelry member when I mentioned impending grandmotherhood.  Actually I was on a quest for a certain discontinued yarn and she sent me some as a gift.  This is a story to be continued.  But while perusing the yarn notice the nails.    The color is Runway Red-y by Revlon.  My husband apparently really likes bright colors because he picked this out for me.  I recently read that one can get 40 manicures out of a bottle of nail polish and I am slogging through this bottle to find out.  To date I am up to my 4th manicure.  Well technically my 3rd with one pedicure but I figure a pedicure takes about as much polish as a mani.  At least this sort of color is suitable for summer.    BTW, as a nail blog reader, I do have to say I never quite realized how difficult it was to take pictures of nail polish.  I took about a dozen and this is the only one that looked even half way decent.  No I have no plans to turn into a nail blogger just I am trying to take better care of them since it helps me be mindful of my eczema.  Which currently afflict my hands.

Being married to him is it any surprise my future is bright?  Yarny days and knitterly evenings 😀