A very super friend got me a very special gift certificate to a very special store. It didn't take me very long to run out the door and spend, spend, spend!



I've dreamt of this yarn (Colinette Jitterbug) since I first saw it at another yarn store back in the winter. I would visit it and pet it, but never bought it. Until now!!! Now I can pet it and hug it at home. Something about the rainbow of colors makes me soooo happy. And speaking of happy colors...



It is like sunshine in a yarn! I got four skeins of this lovely Manos Cotton Stria. I think I want to make a big, cozy scarf for the winter that will remind me of sunshine and warmth.


But instead of casting on projects with these, I started two other new projects. Surprisingly, both are nonsocks.



This is the IK Summertime Tunic reinvented, and not as a tunic. I finally realized that my lack of enough yarn to finish it was indeed not something to blindly try to ignore anymore. I thought of trying to get more of the same yarn, but you saw what I came home with instead. I did originally get this yarn to make myself a top-down something or other. It is now becoming a top-down summery shrug. As with the red tank I finished a few weeks ago, I'm just doing what the yarn tells me and hoping it works out.



And then there's this. I had bought all of this Lion Brand Homespun to make a blanket as a thank you for some friends, but the yarn just sat and sat. Then over the weekend I saw this pattern on Ravelry for a circular blanket and I thought it looked so cool and simple, that I broke out the Homespun and got started. A blanket in July, yes I am crazy.


Although all of this knitting has taken a backseat to the new Guitar Hero 80s that came out on Tuesday. Kevin and I were at Target first thing to get our hands on it. (There's 2 Targets each within 20 minutes of our new place. But as it turns out I have zero ability to properly write down the directions to any store called Target. The first one that we ventured to resulted in a huge detour in the complete wrong direction. The second involved me writing a 5 for a 2 and some guess work in figuring out the appropriate street. I think my subconscious is trying to keep me out of the Target!). I've already conquered 29 of the 30 songs on hard. The soundtrack is really good, there are only a few "eh" songs. Now if only they'd create Bon Jovi Guitar Hero...