Name these socks

Well I've made good progress on my Golden Christmas socks, and I am *loving* knitting with this wool/mohair yarn again.

Then, around the midpoint of the second stripe sequence, I showed them off to a passing family member. Who said, "Nice. John Deere socks."

Once I'd seen it, I couldn't unsee it... 

 

Everybody else I live with has John Deere merch, so I guess I was due, but still. Golden Christmas Socks!! They even have that tiny extra multicolour border in there!

And check out that halo on the ribbing, which I knit extra loose for easy putting-onning. There are no fuzzy edges on a tractor.

The John Deere adjacency will only get worse when I tackle the heels. I have an idea for slowing their progress toward holes and mending, and the only secondary yarn I have enough of for the job is, you guess it, the green.

Whatever I call them, I know I'm gonna love 'em. I'm excited about knitting again and how nice is that? Besides which, there's no copyright on this colour combo. Maybe I should dub them my Habitant socks, after my plaid gravy boat from J. & G. Meakin.

What would you call this design?

Looking at all those loose threads, I'm thinking Sock of Many Tails is a good choice!

I'm wrapping up a moving project for my aunt today, who thankfully was making a small shift to the residence room directly above her own - same layout, no need to agonize over furniture placement. I grabbed the opportunity to organize a new chair for her, and a slipcover for her original one so she's got extra seating for guests.

And on that point I gotta take a moment here to jump up and down a little with my hands waving. 

The only chair I could find in the style and dimensions she needed, available same-day, turned out to be a *perfect* match for the floor colour in her new space. And the only slipcover I could find in the shape and dimensions for her original chair, for next-day delivery? The colour didn't look great onscreen, but when I unpacked it just now I actually gasped. It's gonna match the room like I'd meant it! 

Packing and moving and unpacking again is such hard work, but boy, when you get those little wins it makes it all a lot more fun.

Hope you've got some good stuff lined up for this weekend. Things are starting to hop for you too I bet, so thanks for taking some time out to visit with me here. See you next week, maybe even with pictures of my heel theory in practise!