Lovely! How nice to get them ‘professionally’ grafted, too. 🙂 I love the octopus…of course.

They are lovely. You are hooked. Thank you Jasmine. 😉

Very clever grafting method, indeed. Reminds me of my favorite way to grow zucchini – mention to gardening friends that you didn’t plant any and wait for them to show up on your porch.

Grafting isn’t that bad, really! You are a master lace knitter, surely you can do it!

What fun! They look great. I bet your sock-knitting octopus can crank out some socks…

I found that the secret to kitchenering was to say what I was doing out loud until it was wired into my brain. However, if you want to save yourself that trouble, you could do a Judy Becker’s Magic Cast-on and knit toe-up. I’m just finishing a pair of socks using Casbah(so beautifully dyed) and working not just toe-up, but with Cat Bordhi’s Riverbed architecture where all the arch expansion increases are on the sole of the foot. How neat is that?? I just started knitting socks, but I can see that I’m becoming fanatical about the yarn. Cheers, Hazel.

The book that contains the octopus pattern also contains a spider. I may try that, with Halloween approaching, but I thought you would like the octopus better. You’re more the Monterrey Bay sort than the Miss Muffet sort.

Isn’t it funny that even when you know you’re being sucked into the deep end of a new knitting obsession, there’s no way to avoid it? I’m so glad you asked a kitchener-lover to do it for you! 🙂

If I were a squirrel, I’d be in hiding, too.

Fun –

A fussy old widow named Pease
Thought her home was infested with fleas;
So she used gasoline,
And her form was last seen
Sailing over the tops of the trees

What a cute octopus!!
I need to find that pattern for my Godson :-}
And I am happy to see your socks :-}
I received Priscilla Gibson-Roberts Ethnic Socks book.. and I am in love with the pair on pages 26-27..
My dream knitting project :-}
I’ll be putting the handle on your bag today!!!
Mail goes out Next Friday (via Oscar post :-}

What can I say!

You kitchner like I used to fish. We lived at Sakonnet Point and I’d walk down to the dock and set my pail down and someone would fill it up. It worked for me. YUMMMMM You will love the jitterbug.No not the dance. That is nice sock yarn. Someone just socked it to you. Pat

I loved Mrs Weasley’s air needles!!! If I could only figure out how to get a pair :P. *makes a mental note “gotta learn how to knit socks ;P”

Yeah, Alison, we got you, needle, yarn, and Kitchner. The Socksters are on a roll! Enjoy the Jitterbug, it’s one of my favorites.

Sucker! Nope, not me, not in this lifetime, have fun, friend 😀

Love the titled pun 🙂

If we could all get a few pairs of Mrs. Weasley’s air needles, Christmas would take care of itself, lol!

Beautiful socks! I really should try knitting socks as I think they are the only knitted gift that my hubby would really use with any frequency at all.

Tell Diana that the book with the octopus (soctopus?) pattern is called Amigurumi Knits by Hansi Singh.

A second pair of socks? Have you been converted?

Kitchenering and I never got along. I know the technique, I even kinda liked doing it, but it always looked awful – have no idea what went wrong. So Ken and I had a deal – he kitchenered my socks and I weaved in his ends.