I have a work conference coming up next week.  The educational opportunity is good, I really don't look forward to eating restaurant food for a week, and overall I'll admit I prefer staying home to business travel.  On the other hand, I reeeaaaalllly look forward to the available knitting time.  As this is a national conference I prefer small projects I can hold in my lap, put down easily for note taking, and that don't require much attention.  In other words, I knit a lot of socks.  In fact, last year I finished a second sock, knit an entire pair, and started a forth sock all during one conference.  This year I intend to knit a certain lace shawl during the flights there and back, so I really just need sock projects for the conference itself.  Given that I knit 4 socks last year, and it's not unreasonable to think I might knit faster now then I did then, I think bringing 3 projects is totally reasonable.  And of course I'd hate to be stranded in an airport without knitting, so I'll bring 4 projects, just in case.

All that being said, I have narrowed down my project choices to ELEVEN and I can't seem to choose just 4.  So I'm leaving it up to you!  My criteria are that the sock project be simple enough that I don't have to look at it or the pattern much, but I dislike plain stockinette socks.  Patterns with 1-4 round repeats are great (and stockinette rounds don't count) and lace and cables are ok in small doses, but not all over.

I'm quite certain I'll be knitting some Leyburns.  I've had the yarn chosen since I bought it at VT sheep and wool this fall.  Here are the candidates for the other three slots:  Pembrokshire Pathways, Hermione's Everyday Socks, Outside In, Froot Loop, Blackrose, and (because I just got the book last month) Glynis, Kai-Mei, Lindsay, Sam, and Sunshine from Sock Innovation.

So!  Vote for your favorite pattern(s) choose up to 3, and I'll accept write-ins if they fit my conference knitting criteria!  I'll chose yarn for the top three winners and knit as many of them as I can :-D

Also, if anyone is going to be in the Washington DC area next week and wants to meet up in the evening, I'd love to have an excuse to explore!