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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...

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...

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 Tír 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This year, we've got room for a Christmas tree! We're as excited as, well, a kid at Christmas about this, because it means that we get to decorate it! So we're having a Christmas Decoration Competition! To win a very special This Is Knit prize, drop a yarny decoration in to the shop before December 13th - each one will...

Last March, we had the opportunity to admire a wonderful piece of knitted lace: the wedding lace that wittyknitty had made for her extremely lucky friend, C. Well, wittyknitty's done it again. She dropped in to the shop a couple of weeks ago to show us this wedding shawl, which she had just finished knitting for C's sister, M. This...

Baby blankets are usually made in pastel colours, but there's no reason why they shouldn't be bright and colourful. We were vividly reminded of this when Mary, one of our lovely customers, brought in her most recent blanket to show us. This is the Froggie Blanket from Robin Chacula's Baby Blueprint Crochet. It's made from Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran, so...

Three months ago (really? it doesn't seem that long), we started the Spring KAL. There's a pleasing number of finished objects in the KAL Ravelry thread, though some people are still working on theirs. So it seemed like a good time to post a couple of FO pictures. We've got one Clam and one Breaker, the first knitted by Lisa...

If you're looking for a good reason for getting a bit misty-eyed and nostalgic, may we recommend having a fifth anniversary? Now that we're building up to the celebrations on June 30th, we've been looking fondly back. As far back today as our very first blog post, when we talked about Helen McC who'd just knitted a pair of stunning...

One of the most satisfying aspects of crochet and knitting is the possibility of getting a project exactly the way you want it. Sometimes that's a matter of following a pattern exactly, with the recommended yarn and even the colour from the photograph. Sometimes the published pattern is the jumping off point for something different. We have two beautiful pieces...

Less than a year ago, Nikki (nixx on Ravelry) taught herself to crochet. Like many new crocheters and knitters, she had a particular project in mind. Having learned the stitches, she started looking at patterns, but none of them were exactly right, so as the project took form in her mind, a number of different patterns were melded together to...

That's us. Yarn goes out of the shop in big quantities and small, in balls, in hanks, in bags. Seeing what it becomes makes us happier than you can imagine. Sometimes we get to see finished articles in solid form. The yarn comes back to visit us in the shop, all grown up into jumpers and socks and all manner...

Absolute. Work(s). Of. Art. :) Twink's Wildfoote and Shepherd Sock, Lucy Neatby socks. They have it all going on - a sideways garter cuff, multicoloured bobbles, a Fleur de Lys stitch detail, honeycomb heel and stranded colourwork soles! Just incredible work :)

We repeat... NOTHING. TO. DO. WITH. SOCKS. (Ok, that's a little tribute to Zig and Zag there. Does anyone remember the video "Nothing to do with Toast"? I'm sure it's on You Tube somewhere!!) Back to your regularly scheduled knit blog then. Susan (Rav link) made a Clapotis from Noro Kureyon Sock Yarn! And isn't it just scrummy?!? That's the...

At Knit Night last Thursday Laurence arrived in wearing this stunning sweater and I just had to get the camera out so we could share it with you :) This sweater is her own original design, using Noro Kureyon Sock yarn. It is worked in the round, with steeked* armholes to maintain the depth of the stripes. Laurence then knit...