Lace - easier than cables?

So since my last post, I finished one pair of socks. And no, it wasn't the cabled Stalagmites, it was the super lacy, complicated-looking Marilinda. Why? Because they were just incredibly easier than the stalagmites. The pattern is more intuitive for me, and frankly, the travelling cables on the stalagmites are making me tired just thinking about them. Considering the fact that the yarn I'm using for them makes me want to knit with it forever and ever, this tells me something about the pattern.

Anyway, here are my pretties:

I suggest that anyone who wants to try the Marilinda pattern use a nice slippery yarn, since the lace pattern would get old if you were using something with mohair (why would you use that for socks anyway?) or other 'sticky' options. The eyelets were so easy that it shocked me, and the whole set took me less than nine days of very-not-continuous knitting to finish.

I'm not expecting to finish much more for the next six weeks, since the head of my program threw us a curveball, and I'm now going to class pretty much every day of the week for the rest of the summer. I will be taking my knitting with me, in the hopes that I both get something done and refrain from stabbing anyone with my pen. I wouldn't want to hurt my lovely Raden Vanishing Point, and be forced to have to replace the feed on it. (For the record, no I did not spend that much on it. The site is quite reputable if anyone wants to buy anything from him, though; I highly recommend it.)