switched to socks

 I needed something smaller, where I could see actual progress on it, tonight. So I pulled out the "Roadside Attraction" socks (pattern by Star Athena, pattern is on Ravelry)

I'm about half way through the cuff on the first sock

This is yarn that was kind of an impulse purchase for the colorway name, but I like how it's knitting up. I thought the yarn would look different; here it is in the skein:

The bright colors are less noticeable in the knit-up swatch. The brown is a lot more prominent, but I could tell that when I wound off the yarn:

The color name is "Griswold Family Christmas Tree" - referring to National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I presume it's referencing the tree that (I think it was) Uncle Louis burned up with his cigar (because the tree was so dry), and that's the brown.  It's actually a prettier yarn than the reference makes it seem.

(There's also another, um, "brown" reference from that movie; the "[It] was full" line with the goofy cousin dumping his RV's sewage tank into the storm sewer. There was actually a pretty funny local car dealer at (in Peoria - when I was up visiting my mom) where they re-created a cleaned up version of that scene, with "Clark" and his wife looking out at "Cousin Eddy" who was......charging up the electric cars on the lot. "Lot's full!" he exclaimed happily. It was actually a pretty good recreation of the bit. Most local car dealer ads can be pretty rancid, so the fact that this one was GOOD and made me laugh the first couple times I saw it was kind of nice)