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February 24 2015 – thisisknit
All grown up!
Here's a spectacular finished object, knitted by Jaclyn Allen, a good friend of This Is Knit. It's from Boo Knits' gorgeous Wintersweet pattern, which comes as no surprise: stunning lace, lots of beading! This example is made from Juniper Moon Findley laceweight, and the colour is Hyacinth. At a generous 730 metres a ball, there's more than enough to knit...
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October 01 2013 – thisisknit
Two for joy
Babies need blankets, and we're convinced that the best blankets are handmade. We've two to show you, both beautiful, both practical and each completely different. First of all, our wonderful customer Jenny recently made the brightly coloured treasure in the picture above and allowed us to share the project and her picture with you. It's the Chevron Baby Blanket by...
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May 01 2013 – thisisknit
Comfort and joy
We've shown you the amazing work of clareblove here before, most notably when we featured Speziale, her wonderful Latvian Garden Baby Blanket last year. Well, she's done it again. This time we're in awe of her TÃr Chonaill, which is a combination of several of our favourite things: Clare's knitting, Studio Donegal's delicious Soft Merino and Kate Davies' clever and...
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October 31 2012 – thisisknit
Boo!
We get to see a lot of lovely knitted and crocheted objects, but it's not often that we meet one as charming, clever and downright dotey as this. When we saw it, we begged for the details to share with you, so here goes. First of all, this is not a giant hat photographed with an average pumpkin. It's a...
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October 10 2012 – thisisknit
Going off road
We've talked in the past about how to substitute yarns, concentrating on keeping the qualities as close as possible - DK for DK, Aran for Aran, and so on. But there are, as they say, no knitting police, and very often you can get the most gorgeous results by using a yarn very differently to how it was intended. For...
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May 25 2012 – thisisknit
Learning curves
The thing we love most here is seeing what our yarn turns into after it leaves us. We're always delighted. Sometimes, however, we're simply astounded. And this is one of those times. A few years ago, Clare (clareblove on Ravelry) decided to add some new skills to her repertoire. She took a colourwork class with us (we were still in...
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December 15 2011 – thisisknit
We have a winner!
We've been amazed at the creativity of the tree decorations we've received for our Christmas tree - actually, we were awfully glad we were drawing a winner at random, because it would have been near impossible to pick a winner otherwise. But we have a winner, and it's Ruth from Cork, who sent us that delightful little ornament, complete with...
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