Not Croc'd Socks

It's a slow knitting week for me. I forgot to show my Croc sock completion from the weekend, so here it is now.

Apparently Croc'ing is very stitch number dependent. Around the toe and heel the yarn Croc'd, everywhere else, nada. At least the second sock is turning out the same way. Some recent posts on the OpalChatters list suggest that where you start in the ball has something to do with Croc'ing or not Croc'ing. I tend to believe it has more to do with gauge and number of stitches around. Could be both. Which end of the skein you start from is also believed to have an effect. Some knitters get a Croc'd sock and an un-Croc'd sock from the same skein.

I just wish they'd Croc'd because they would have been more interesting to knit. But once they're both knit up, I'll enjoy them either way. And I've got more Opal to play with. Should my next socks be Brasil? Or Southwest? Or that fabulous Bearfoot? Hmm...

I got two lovely books in the mail today: The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook and Viking Patterns for Knitting, both from KnitPicks, both on sale. I'm looking forward to actually reading the Lavold book since there is so much interesting information in it.

My first copy of Interweave Knits showed up in the mail today, too. I'm intrigued by the Priscilla Gibson-Roberts Eastern European Footlets and the article on making gloves. Unusually enough for me, I do not like the Cable-Chic sweater in Silk Garden at all (I'm a Silk Garden junkie) -- I think it would look terrible except on the skinniest of people and at least in the pictures, that colorway is not very attractive. But that's just my opinion. Certainly I would have left out this sweater in preference to Annie Modesitt's lovely Morris Fern cardigan. It's not something I could wear colorwise but I still think it's gorgeous and wearable.