If you are a beginner and are thinking of starting your own pair of socks (tiger or otherwise), Terri has a great tutorial with pictures on her site called Socks 101. And if you're new to circular knitting, the only trick is to be sure that the stitches aren't twisted when you join them to form your circle.

First, cast on the required number of stitches. Then make sure they are all straight so that the cast-on edge is a perfect row below the needles (this is to prevent twisting the first round and making a mobius strip!). To test this, line up all the stitches - loop above, cast-on edge below - and if you see the cast-on edge trying to wrap around the needle flip it around, so it makes a straight line at the bottom. Now you can divide the stitches over how ever many needles you'll be using (I like to use four) by slipping a fraction (in my case, 1/4) of the stitches from one end purlwise on to one needle and then the next fraction to another needle, etc. Essentially, all you will be doing is instead of turning the last needle to work back and forth, just moving it over to the first needle, making a circle (square or triangle, depending on how many needles you are using), and knitting the very first stitch with the yarn, as if it were all the same row.

But first, check again to be sure that the cast-on edge is not twisted and make sure that your yarn is coming from the right side ready to join the two front needles. (I had the yarn on the left, so I just flipped my square over, so it's going in the right direction). Then pick up the needles. Just focus on those front two, the rest should come along with you. Insert the working needle, knit the first stitch and voila, they're joined! Terri's got pics of all these steps on the first page of her site using three needles. And here's a page with some pictures to help, just in case you find yourself knitting on the inside of the circle. It happens.

Of course, if you are a KnitNet reader, you may want to disregard all of my "amateur enthusiast" advice. Rant coming soon!