Eighth Year of Projects - Week 19

Hello everyone and welcome to Week 19 of the Eighth Year of Projects and Day 4 of NaBloPoMo!

I have had a fairly productive week.  I spent some time working on my Texture Time Shawl and I am nearly half done with Clue #2.  I am clearly far behind everyone else...  Oh well, I am still enjoying the knit and will love the shawl once it is finally finished!  Since last week I have added four squiggles and three Latvian braids.  One more squiggle and two braids left to complete the first half of the clue.  Here is what it looks like now:

And I have a new cast on!!  I started a pair of Christmas socks!  I had dyed some Christmas yarn a little while back and now that my Sockhead Slouch Hat is finished I decided to add a new WIP to my pile!  I am knitting them two at a time and am using a basic vanilla sock recipe.  I am at about 5 1/4 inches now and plan to go to about 7 inches on the legs before I start my heel flaps.  I don't really like a long sock - my calves are too large for long socks (or I should say I don't want to work out how much I need to do for increases to fit!)  Anyway, here is my progress this week on my Christmas socks (there are two pictures - one from each side so you can see the spiraling and pooling - which I actually like (I know many people do not like this...)) :

I have a new episode up of my podcast:

And I am happily continuing with my NaBloPoMo challenge where I plan to blog each and every day through the month of November.  So far I am on track!  I am also participating in NaKnitMo this month too.  Here I am committing to knitting 50,000 stitches this month!  That works out to an average of 1666.67 stitches per day - so far I am a bit ahead of schedule.  I have tried this challenge before but did not succeed - maybe this year?

I hope everyone has an amazing week!