Baby Boy Knits

Well, it's probably not a big secret that I don't really like baby boy knits. The "boy" patterns are still kind of girlie and it severely limits your color options. Having said that here are a couple of finished boy things that I love.
The affectionately named T-ball. (T for the last name of the lady I made it for. Don't make fun, but I felt so clever when I came up with that one.) I love this, it was pretty boring to knit, but the construction was really challenging and fun. If I ever convince any of you to start knitting this would be a great beginner project. The knitting is very simple and there is lots of it, great for practicing. And in the end you end up with something that looks hard to make.
Steve was unconvinced by my color choices, but I really like the way it turned out. To add a little something special to it I massacred a toy frog with a chime inside and put that inside the ball. So now it makes the cutest little noise when you shake it.
I'm so going to make this again. The only bad thing is that the knitting for it is very boring, and for me who knits slow and only for short stretches it seemed to take forever. I'm willing to overlook it.

This is the acorn hat. Which is the greatest shade of grayish baby blue ever. These pictures so don't do the hat justice. It's a much warmer color than it looks here and the texture on the hat is awesome. I tried and tried but couldn't quite capture it in the pictures.
This one is better, but still not an accurate representation. I liked this pattern a lot, it was fun to knit the pattern and it went super fast. Another one I can see making again.

Thanks for reading.