I finally finished one Opal Petticoat sock:

Then moved on to the second one of the Opal Rodeo pair that I started in Mexico:

I have two other single socks, I think, one an Opal Bumblebee and the other also an Opal, an Inspiration, I think. I'm hoping to finish up those--and the second Petticoat one--before I start on anything new. It's so hard, though. I have a bin full of wonderful sock yarn, and it always seems so much more interesting to start a new ball of yarn, to see what it's going to look like, than it is to knit the second sock of a pair.

But it has to be done. It seems to make it easier (for me, at least) not to try to knit the two socks of a pair one right after the other--knitting something else in between works better for me.

The Opal Rodeos that I'm working on now will be fraternal twins; I decided against trying to make them match because the color repeat is so long that I would have had to pull out half the skein to find the right place to start, and I just didn't feel like it. I like having them not match sometimes, anyway. Although I also like having them match exactly -- self patterning yarn is just cool, period.