This morning I finished off the second Broadripple sock to get the pair done in my target time of a week which I'm rather impressed with. I'm putting my knitting energy into my second Pablo Blue sock, and casting on for another pair of Slalom socks, this time in some rather lovely purple Admiral Bambus. I'm quite taken with the idea of wearing something as unusual as bamboo on my feet, but I'm feeling rather uncertain about the amount of people who've told me that the Admiral yarns are often somewhat short on weight and yardage, and with my rather long feet and need for a slightly longer cuff due to my love of Converse all stars and Dr Martin boots I'm a little frowny about running out. However my not particularly great kitchen scales (wonderful for measuring out recipe ingredients, not so skilled at measuring tricky items like sock wool) seem to suggest that I might have a full skein. I think I shall still be knitting rather nervously towards the toe of sock number two I think.

This weekend also sees me going off on my jollies for a week to that paradise of yarn shops London. With a two hour train journey there, and another one back there should be plenty of opportunity for me to get stuck into my current sock projects. Not to mention the fact that I'll be dragging lsb to lots of lovely yarn shops and to meet lots of lovely London knitters. So I shall be going off the radar for a short while, but rest assured I shall be back soon. 

My attempt at an arty shot of the finished spiral socks. You can just about see the spiral round the side. 

 and then photos of my newly finished first Broadripple sock. The second one's well under way and it looks pretty good so far and knitting up very quickly, the downside to this being losing some of hardwearing quality of smaller gauge knitting. Though I could get used to the idea of knitting a pair of socks in under a week. I've also got my sock knitting mojo back and finally managed to shake off those oh so pesky random ladders that have been plaguing me for weeks. 

I've also been perusing the new Cat Bordhi book, while I love some of the stitch patterns (particularly the sock knitted in linen stitch, how did I ever miss that one?) and the concept of knitting a mini practice sock I'm not sure there's anything that really leaps out and demands to be knitted. I'm quite into the idea of playing with the location of the gusset and making a really unusual unique sort of sock, but how practical this would be I just don't know, it seems pretty cool though and maybe one for my more adventurous moods.