I have two sock challenge socks left to knit. One from Knitty and one from Favourite Socks. One with cables and one made from non-wool sock yarn.

Since I don’t have any non-wool sock yarn I’ve just ordered some Crystal Palace Panda Solid, which is 55% bamboo, 24% cotton, & 21% elastic nylon. To make the US postage worthwhile, I also ordered some Fleece Artist Sea Wool and Dream in Colour Smooshy. Last time I ordered some sock yarn just to try it out, I ordered three or four colourways only to discover I didn’t like the yarn very much. This time I figure I’ll try a few other sock yarns out instead.

In the meantime I get to choose a cable sock pattern from either Knitty or Favourite Socks. But, well, looking through Knitty… there aren’t a lot of socks patterns I like. Probably because there are heaps of lace patterns. And there aren’t a lot of cabled ones. I really like Cable net and Clessidra.

Looking through Favourite Socks, there are a lot more patterns I like but no cable pattern that leaps out at me. It might be safer, then, to use this pattern source for the non-wool sock yarn.

So back to Knitty. It’s probably just a romantic notion, but I think a proper cable pattern ought to extend down the heel as it does on Cable net. But while on Clessidra it doesn’t, I do rather fancy a pair of knee-highs. Unfortunately the only yarn I have in quantities large enough to make knee-highs is varigated and would probably obscure the cable pattern.

So it looks like Cable net is the winner.