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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’ve loved this woman and I am heart broken that she is not in this world anymore. I loved this little knit on her in the movie “9 to 5” I finally might knit this one. RIP Dolly Parton. ❤️ I know now what movie I will knit to this weekend. #dollyparton #9to5 #ripdolly

Dolly Parton wearing peach colour lace knit featured in the movie “9 to 5”.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

It’s been a while. I wish I could stay in knitting communiy non stop bur a lot is happening in my loife right now. Thar is why this occasional visit to Bluesky. #showmeyourknits shawls! So here it is. I had one stage of my life only knitted shawls. 🧶 I am wearing all of them. 😆 #knitsky

I am wearing all the shawls I’ve knitted.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🧶 #knitsky I have this thing. I always want to make a new pullover for a holiday. (I guess I have a vision of me walking around a sort of paradise in it) I attempted to make a new knits before going for a holiday. I had never finished on time until now. Finally I finished not only one but two! 😃💃🏻 🧵

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Egg desserts, World cup decorations, flowers on the balcony, yellow tiles, sardines, a seagull on a car roof top, patterns on tiles, a shiny bike in a back ally, murals/graffitis, the colours of woven carpet, painted tiles… Porto, Portugal 2026. 🧶✈️🌍 #knisky #travel #knitandtravel

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

In fact I managed to finish one more before the trip. It’s a set-in, full fashioned shoulder pullover. I’ve been working on this for a very long time. This one is a short-sleeved one. 🧶 #knitsky 🧵

Back of me walking on a tiled pavement in Porto. I’m wearing a full fashioned shoulder, short sleeved set-in pullover. The yarn is speckled. The colours include green, yellow, orange, blue, red, and brown.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#knitsky 🧶 I did it. I weaved in a thousand ends ( yeah I felt like a thousand!). It’s showing-off time! 😆

Me holding a coffee cup and looking at the camera. I’m wearing khaki linen striped pullover.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A 5 year old WIP… I like weaving in… I like weaving in… I like weaving in… 😵‍💫 I am determined 💪 to wear this one for the upcoming holiday! #knitsky 🧶

An inside out knitting on my lap with lots of ends to weave in. A labrador sleeping on the couch shows in the background.

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Lior 🇺🇦 | knitting design+garment mods @jolior.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Ysolda updated her size chart and among other things added measurements for people with broad shoulders. I haven't looked at it yet, but I'm happy she is sharing her work (as I did for the past 5ys now on trans people's bodies) Here is to more garment patterns for trans women! #transjoy #knitsky🧶

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Ysolda’s size chart for knitwear designers

Inclusive size charts for sizes xxs to 7xl, created by a knitwear designer and featuring measurements that can be difficult to find. Newly updated with an extended size range with measurements for cup...

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#showmeyourknits Stripes! Love making it but hate weaving in ends. 😅 1. Almost 30 years ago I knitted this jumper in a dorm room 2. Made this as a leftover buster 3. Herringbone giant shawl. I meant to write a pattern but… 4. I swear I finished this one! No photo found. 🧶 #knitsky

A young version of me stood behind a refrigerator of a cafe wearing blue/dark brown striped turtleneck jumper (sweater).

A dummy is wearing Grey/duck egg blue/brown/dark grey striped triangle shawl.

A dummy is wearing a big yellow and purple herringbone shawl.

A half finished light & dark khaki striped v neck linen pullover hung in a hanger.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#showmeyourknits I keep seeing “I rarely use yellow…” C’mon people. Yellow is good! 💛💛💛💛😃 I already posted this prompt but I can’t help myself. Yellow is good. 😍

A yellow lace shawl is displayed on a dummy.

Yellow lace shawl was pulled out from a dressmaker’s dummy to show is lead pattern.

Tunisia crochet lace shawl is pulled out from a dummy to show the lace pattern.

A yellow bullion sleeves jumper is on a dummys

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

#showmeyourknits Yellow! 💛 Oh how much I love yellow. I even write about it. This yellow cardigan is my favourte to wear. However, I try not to buy yellow yarn anymore. I have too many skeins. 🫢😆 🧶 #knitsky

Me wearing red turtleneck and golden yellow cropped cardigan. Holding mobile and taking a selfie through a mirror.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

#showmeyourknits I’ve been knitting only stockinette recently. I’ve been obsessed with finding perfect numbers for basic set-in sleeves. Actually I’m knitting stockinette for months on end. 😅 I’m sewing up the fourth sample. 🧶 #knitsky 🧵

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

#showmeyourknits “Purple” Definitely purple is not my favourite colour. I can’t find anything but this. I knitted for my best friend’s wedding. Her choice was purple. 💜 Sherland lace yarn Victorian rose lace pattern. (If I remember correctly. It might be something else 😅) 🧶 #knitsky

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🧶 #knitsky Does anyone do this? I didn’t think twice about this but my neighbour saw me today and couldn’t stop laughing. 😅

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A new blog: It’s all about jumper (sweater) lengths. Link in bio 🧶 #knitsky

Two sets of drawings show 5 figures wearing 5 different jumpers. Upper one show front. The lower one show back.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

#showmeyourknits colourwork This is the very first colourwork I did many decades ago. (Time flies…). It was bright green & dark brown colour but they are faded to pale colours. 🧶 #knitsky

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

#showmeyourknits Finally got back to my ordinary days. Glad to participate this fun prompt again. 😃 Green.. found that my most greens are crocheted! And remembered this! Green best. The patter is from Sister Mountain. I changed it into tight vest. 🧶 #knitsky

Me wearing a green vest over white short sleeved T-shirts standing on a boat.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Another blog is up. It’s all about growing yarn and mistakes. 😆 🧶 #knitsky

Purple knitted pieces - front pieces of cardigan and a balloon sleeve- are pinned on a dress dummy

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Unpopular opinion. I love knitted flat construction. I do not like sewing pieces together or weaving in ends. Still it’s worth it in the end imo. I’m wearing a full fashioned shoulder basic jumper knitted flat. I know it will last a life time. ❤️ 🧶 #knitsky

Me wearing a grey full fashioned shoulder basic jumper looking out the window.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

My new blog post is up after a long long pause. 😅 The link is in bio. 🧶 #knitsky

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

#showmeyourknits Cardigan week! Love knitting & wearing cardigans. I knitted this for my friend. She is more like my little sister. We lived together when we were young. I knitted another for myself. I look forward to the day we wear it together like twins. We live so far away now. 🥲 🧶 #knitsky

An Asian woman wearing dark blue knitted cardigan with orange button band and sleeve bands. A cable band is across the yoke. The cardigan is knitted with Donegal tweed.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#showmeyourknits Am I late again? Just off the needle. I made a Christmas hat! I realised this is the first time I ever knitted anything for Christmas. 😅 (Except crochet Xmas tree ornaments of course) 🧶 #knitsky

Me wearing green X-mas elf’s hat with white nordic colour work in the middle and green & white teasels.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

#chrochetaway This week.. bit late on the game. Future challenge, is it? I got this metal box from a souvenir shop in Greece. It’s a soap box but I use it as notion cox now. Whenever I look at it. I have an urge to recreate the pattern with crochet. Can I do it, though? 😄 🧶

A small metal box with intricate mandala patterns all over the box. The colours are blue, turquoise blue, red, brown, black & green. The biggest one is in the centre - round centre and star edge. Alongside the edge octagon mandalas are placed.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#showmeyourknits Floof! Too many floof! 😆 The first one, kid silk mohair only- most recent one. Its pattern is being cooked up now. The second, my favourite one to wear - DK wool & kid silk mohair held together. I live in this jumper when the temperature falls below a certain threshold. ☃️🧶

I’m standing in front of the mirror wearing a burnt orange colour cropped mohair jumper & grey wide leg trousers.

I’m looking at the camera smiling with folded arms. I am wearing a colour blocked jumper - top half beige & bottom half pink.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Ordered an iced coffee but got an Irish coffee. Well that’s ok. I consider it as pre-flight aperitif. 😁 🧶 #knitsky #travel #spain

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I don’t know what I would be on the plane without knitting. 🧶 An early morning flight gifted me a crimson wonder. ✈️ 🌅 (I overslept and almost missed the flight. 🙊) #knitsky

Dark grey WIP knitting on a folding table on a plane. Behind it there is a plaid knitting pouch with orange handle.

The sun is under the sea of clouds and crimson colour lights peaks through clouds.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

#crochetaway Any thing pink! I do not have pink so I chose a lilac colour. 😃 Do you know Helen Rodel, a Brazilian designer? I adore her work so I decided to make one for my beach holiday about 6-7 years ago. This is closest I could get. (I think the one I saw was a dress but I made it as a top. 🧶

A lilac colour lace crochet sleeveless top: Leaf motifs are around the neck and the belly, and flower petals are on the bust. The top is figure hugging and the length reaches upper hip.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

#showmeyourknits Cables! As soon as moved to Ireland, I designed and knitted a cable Aran jumper. This is a remake of it. I needed a cropped version. In a chilly but not so cold morning, this is perfect outfit working dogs. Behind, the cable blanket bedspread I made. 🧶 #knitsky More info:alt text

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

#showmeyourknits Horror! Tragedy! A beanie. It went to the washing machine with the wrong loads and came out felted. I literally cried as it was made with a beautifully soft (and expensive) yarn. 😭 I saw the bottom and now I’m using it a s a basket to hold scraps of yarn. 🧶 #knitsky 🧵

Me wearing a very small knitted thing (used to be a beanie but not felted) on the top of my head.

The same felted beanie was laid on a desk showing sewn top.

The same felted beanie placed on the desk holding scraps of yarn as if it’s a basket.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

#showmeyoutknits The week of HATS! I have made two hat in my entire knitting life. One was a black beret which was lost during cross- Atlantic move. Only one left in my possession. 🧶 #knitsky

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

🧶 I found a very interesting video comparing synthetic/cotton/wool. I have loved wool since I remember. I was required to wear a proper suit in a corporation a long ago. Cotton shirts, skirt & Jacket - the whole shebang. But I hated the shirts. 🧵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmbm...

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The TRUTH About Merino Wool Shirts.

YouTube video by The Iron Snail

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#showmeyourknits Following Liv’s suggestion, I found a black top. Yay. 🎃 This might be something Morticia Addams might wear. I might wear this for Halloween with a long black skirt & hooded cloak, and of course, the makeup to greet children. Would I scare them or entertain them? 😆👻🧶

A black sleeveless top on a dress maker’s dummy. The top is knitted with sparkling black yarn.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

#showmeyourknits The prompt “socks” got me thinking how much I love darning socks. I only wear wool socks when I hike with my dogs. You know some part of wool socks are worn out easily. That gives the joy of mending. 😍 🧶 #knitsky #woolsocksarethebest 🧵

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I just found out that another “Eclectic Jess” exists. I’ve been using this for a long while so it didn’t occur to me to check. 🙄 This another “Eclectic Jess” (a lovely crochet lady) has Youtube channel under the same name. So I think I should change mine. Any suggestion for a new name? 🧶 🧵

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

🧶 Finally got out of sleeve island! Last weekend was productive. 😄 The second sample is done. #knitsky #shelikeditpullover

Me wearing burnt orange colour, lace yoke pullover sitting on a chair. The photo was closed up to the chest area.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

#showmeyourknits Oh how much delighted I am with the word #socktober ! Pls do not laugh at me. I didn’t know that clever word. I suck at social media. 😅 I don’t have fancy pairs of socks. I knit very functional ones. Thick & sturdy. Nothing beats wool socks when feet are cold & clammy. 🧶

Closed up photo of feet wearing two colour (yellow toe & green) wool socks. These are what I’m wearing now.

A sock is being knitted - toe up way, two colours (green toe & yellow) is on the table. A knitting back contains wool behind the sock. At the far side of table. A tablet showing a picture of a riverside city.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

RIP Jane Goodall. A sad day today. We lost a guiding star. We all must continue her legacy.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

#showmeyourknits Joy & Care. What a great prompt! I designed this scarf for my childhood friend Katie. After losing touch for decades, we found each other again. When I went to see her in Portland, I wanted to give her something to express my joy of having found her again. 🧶🧵

A blue chunky scarf with huge pompoms is wrapped around a dress dummy.

A fuchsia colour chunky scarf with pompom at the end is wrapped around a dressmaker’s dummy.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🧶 Damn! Am I late? #crochetaway Granny squares. How much I love them. ❤️ Here are the biggest one and the smallest one I’ve done. A bed cover with 180 granny squares. And tiny granny hexagons (does ir count?) with lace weight left over yarn. I made almost 50 of them. #crochetersofbsky

A white granny square bed cover: each granny square has elevated flower in the centre.

A closed up of blue, pink, and purple tiny granny hexagons laid out together.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

🧶 The sleeve island is real. So I casted on… 😅🤪 #knitsly

A burnt orange colour, laced yoke, cropped mohair pullover is on a dressmakers dummy. Only one sleeve finished.

Newly casted on a circular needle with grey wool is on a messy desk.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

#showmeyourknits This morning was quite nippy. It elevated my knitting mood instantly! I always take my poncho out when the proper fall arrived. This was made about 10 years ago - my own design. I also wear it over pyjama instead of bathrobe. 😆It’s one of my Autumn staples. ☺️ 🧶 #knitsky

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

#showmeyourknits Can I change a bit? I would like to show someone else’s knit. I’ve been knitting for many decades. I knitted a dresser full of scarves & shawls. While I’ve searching for one scarf to show off, I found one very dear to me. It is knitted for me by a 80 year-old lady. 🧶 #knitsky 🧵

Me, Jessica is taking a selfie through mirror wearing a long green knitted scarf with fringes.

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

#showmeyourknits this weeks’ prompt is “WIP”?! I don’t even know how many wips are. I must confess I’m a WIP hoarder. Yes I need therapy. 😓 So, I’ll just show you what is on my needle now. Life goes on. 😆 🧶 #knitsky #knitting

Me taking a selfie wearing burnt orange mohair top-down laced yoke pullover halfway down to the body. A black lab sitting and looking out the windows in the background.

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MadStash @madstash.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This'd be a more enjoyable video without the subtle digs and devaluing of the (yes, scientific) work required to design a sweater, but the stitches they're putzing around with are really interesting (yes, "putzing" is me devaluing the work of the physicists, they can bite me) 🧶 youtu.be/iTLvD6-X8WQ

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Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works

YouTube video by SciShow

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Octopean Jess _Jessica Jeong Knits @jessicajeongknits.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Yay- sweater season has arrived! Spring and summer in Ireland this year was unusual. It was quite dry with many sunny and hot days. I’ve been missing my woolly stuff. It’s more like proper Irish weather now. Wet and windy. Happy wearing a pullover and a cardigan. I must knit red socks. ☺️🧶 #knitsky

Me wearing a golden yellow cardi over red turtle neck jumper and red socks looking at the mirror. The red socks are not woollen, though

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