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First, I've started leaving orphan socks around. I've never had much trouble with "second sock syndrome," but for some reason, I have two lone socks finished with their mates not even on the needles yet:

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Pattern: Rainbow Socks, by Susanne Kitzmann, from the former MagKnits. I believe the designer (who is German) is looking for a copy of the English translation from MagKnits so that she can post it. Ravelers are working on the problem, stay tuned.
Yarn: Knit Picks Felici, in Arugula
Needles: US1.5/2.5mm

I like these, but still am not sure about the fit. They may be a tad loose. I may start the second sock on US1/2.25mm needles just to see the difference, but all of my US1s are taken right now, so it's on the back burner.

Orphan #2:

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Pattern: Spring Twists, by Jeanie Townsend, which can be downloaded when you join the Townsend Socks KAL Yahoo group. She has a lot of great patterns, it's worth it to join!
Yarn: Knit Picks Essential, in Grass
Needles: US1/2.25mm

It's Townsend month in the Ravelry Sockdown, not to mention that I always have to have a sock in progress in my work bag (you know, for those unexpected waits here or there), so the mate for this sock will be on the needles by tonight. It may be just a tad snug, but I sort of like the effect of the rounding of the ribbing between the cables caused by the stretching.

What has caused this sudden distraction from finishing socks? A couple of things. First, I have to announce that the Adirondack Pullover is on the move! See here for the state it's been in for over a year. Sad, isn't it? Well look at it now!

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Pattern: Adirondack Pullover, by Elizabeth Morrison, which I got from The Garter Belt, but which she now has on her personal web site. She mentioned lately that TGB might be going the way of MagKnits, so I highly suggest heading over there and downloading anything you might want from their "Complimentaries" section before they disappear, there are some great free patterns over there!
Needles: US7/4.5mm

I decided that it was dumb to be intimidated by this sweater, letting it sit in the bag untouched for so long. This being my first adult sweater, I've been so afraid of doing all that knitting (man knitting, even) and not realizing until the end that it didn't fit. With a top-down it's easy to try on, but with 80 kajillion stitches on the needles before the arm split, even the act of putting it all on waste yarn was overwhelming. But I finally did it, had M try it on, and continued on my way. Had him try it again a few inches down from the arm split, and I think it might be coming out okay. I'm sure it'll be done during a time when he'll want no part of a wool sweater, but at least he'll have it for next winter.

Last but not least, I may be in trouble here. I've started a sock yarn leftovers blankie. I followed very closely Shelly's progress as she knit hers, and sort of had in the back of my head that I would like to make one, too. Then I got started making my Wee Tiny Socks for my wall decoration, and figured that would be a good use of my leftovers. But I still had more! Finally this weekend, in a moment of weakness, I cast on. I started on Friday with this:

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And, um, I might now have this, less than two days later:

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I do believe that this blankie is the crack of the knitting world. I have now run out of sock yarn leftovers (without repeating the ones I have), so I'm stuck with either waiting until I knit more socks and have more leftovers (a torturous wait) or starting to use skeins I haven't even used for socks yet, thus defeating the purpose of the "leftover" blankie. I refuse to stoop to this level. So I suppose I'll put it out there that if any of you have sock yarn scraps of the semisolid, striped, or variegated kind that you don't have plans for, I'll be more than willing to take them off your hands. Even very small lengths would help, on two squares so far I've used multiple scraps that weren't enough by themselves. It's crack, I tell you! For anyone considering this project for yourselves, you have been warned.