On Sunday, George & I attended a baby shower for his co-worker Pavel Repin and his wife Linna.  We had a fun time at the shower which was designed to include all the guys.  I had knit a pullover sweater and a pair of booties for the baby, but I also had decided to give the happy parents-to-be a baby gnome hat that others had declared either "cute" or "really ugly, and you finished it?"  (Well, I did post it to Ravelry's "Hall of Shame" group. teehee)

Since the parents declared the hat cute, I gave Pavel the beret I had knitted with the same yarn.  I had been wondering who to give the beret to as I had knitted it purely for the experience of knitting my first beret.  Pavel loved it as orange is his favorite colour.



He had to take it off after awhile because it was getting too hot.  I informed him it was pure wool, and he and the baby's heads would be very warm come next winter.

Linna seemed to like the sweater and booties.



Another attendee at the shower had presented Pavel and Linna with lots of baby clothes and I was delighted to discover that the colours of the pullover sweater was perfect with them.  I congratulated George on his good colour sense since he had picked out the yarn from my huge stash of sock yarn.