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About a month ago I was wandering aimlessly around in JoAnn's. I think I was actually there to buy buttons for the twin sweaters. I was tempted by fabric and almost bought some to make an apron with.

Then I wandered to the yarn section and I bought some Red Heart Super Saver Aran Fleck. I can just hear all you acrylic haters cringing now...

I liked the tweedy look it had. Different from the other Red Heart yarn. I had been wanting a tweed looking yarn for awhile. There were three skeins left. They were CHEAP and I bought them.

$6 spent.

I then proceeded to try and find a pattern for this yarn without much luck. So it continuted to sit and sit. I would stare at it and try to think of something to do. Then I tried out a few patterns. First, I tried to work Divine from Ella Rae Book 7 in this yarn. Didn't like it. The Red Heart was much too stiff for this pattern. Then I tried the hourglass sweater from Last-Minute Knitted Gifts. This was working out OK, but then I got to the sleeves and once again the Red Heart proved to be much too stiff for this.

Well then last night, Stephen and I were at Michael's to get some yard sale sign supplies. So of course I had to stop by the yarn section just to check it out. And I found the perfect project sheet for the Red Heart yarn! And it was free!

I am so excited this purse! I have been wanting to make a cabled purse for awhile now. I'm nearly finished with the knitting portion already. I am very excited about this.

Also made by me today was some super scrumptious banana chocolate chip bread. Mmm...

So delicious that everyone around here was pigging out on it and I couldn't even get a picture of it before it was nearly gone. This is super easy to make.

Ingredients:
• 1 box of SuperMoist Cake Mix (Yellow, White or Vanilla)
• 2 old-ish, brown spotted bananas
• All ingredients listed on back of cake mix box except oil.
• Half a bag of chocolate chips.

Directions:
Mash up bananas in small bowl until they are of a more liquidy texture. Mix in with cake mix and other ingredients as directed on box, except do not add any oil to the mixture. The bananas make up for the oil. Mix in almost all the chocolate chips, holding back a small handful. Pour batter into bread pan or bundt pan. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips (this way all the chips are not at the bottom). Follow directions for cake on the box as far as temperature and baking times. Enjoy.