Here’s a pic of the sock in progress:

There’s actually a fair bit of unchallenging ribbing in these socks. I don’t mind – there’s always a place for unchallenging knitting in my life! But I’m thinking that maybe I’ll make the next sock my second project instead of casting on for a non-sock project. If I pace things right, there’s always be a bit of challenging knitting or easy knitting to pick up depending on what the situation requires.

I’ve been combing through back issue of knitty.com and Magknits, trying to decide which pattern to try, but didn’t want to choose one until this arrived:

And it arrived yesterday. Oh my. This book doesn’t make deciding on patterns any easier. Which cable sock pattern to choose? Which lace sock pattern? Which textured stitch pattern sock? (And sometimes I wonder whether how to categorise some patterns – it’s not always obvious if they’re lace of cable or a stitch pattern.)

To make it even harder to choose, yesterday I discovered (thankyou kgirlknits) that Interweave Knits had put up pics of the patterns in the coming Fall 2007 issue. Scroll down to the staff projects. Five more cabled sock possibilities.

Expect more sock pattern decision-making posts in the coming weeks.