I have friends at work who struggled for years with infertility issues, then finally gave up on the idea that they would ever have a baby.  After struggling with that for a while, they decided to start the steps toward adoption. There were some ups and downs on this, but about 6 weeks ago they had a call saying that they had been matched!  Surprise!  2 weeks ago they headed off to see their beautiful new baby girl.  They of course sent pics, and you have never seen as big a smile as Mom’s - they had their baby at last.

Of course this much longed-for baby needed something special, and I decided to attempt a Baby Surprise Jacket.  It took some doing, and trusting, and a little ripping to get the striping just right.  Observant readers might recognize the colors - this is the leftover yarn from the Siena Fair Isle Hat that I did for a Fair Isle class.  Shea can be seen modeling the hat here.  I knitted and read instructions and knitted and read some more, and came up with this amorphous blob.

I spent at least half an hour looking for buttons for this last Wednesday, and the jacket hibernated until I finally got up the nerve picked it up last night to sew it up.  I tried 2 different techniques to sew up the sleeve seam (horizontal garter to vertical garter - not as easy as it sounds), and ended up going with kind of an overcast stitch that looked decorative, instead of trying to hide it.

Here are the final pictures once it was all sewn and buttoned up:

 While I was riding home from button-shopping, it occurred to me that this much-loved baby will have her own “Coat of Many Colors”, just like a much-loved child from long ago.  Welcome to the world, Meredith!

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