Events

It's Yarn Club time again! We're delighted to be launching the Irish Yarn Club 2016 this coming Thursday the 15th October. This will be the third year of the Club and both Carol and myself are particularly excited about some of the collaborations and innovations that will be happening this coming year. We're immensely proud to be bringing together the...

Where did the idea come from for an entire book using Short Row techniques? I’ve always loved knitting with short rows; when I begin knitting again it was one of the first advanced techniques I learned in order to create bust darts. However I wasn’t really happy with my short rows so I started to investigate and experiment. From there...

Carol is one of This Is Knit's very favourite people, so we're fierce thrilled to be hosting the launch of her new book. It's entirely devoted to patterns shaped with short rows - you can see the Ravelry previews here. Over the last couple of years, we've fallen in love with a lot of Carol's short row shaping - Rossbeg...

What do you get if you put forty knitters and crocheters in a yarn shop, show them the gorgeous new stock that's filling the shelves and let them play with it? Why, you get Yarn Dating! Let us tell you about Friday night! It was such fun! For the first time, we hosted the whole event in the shop (well,...

It's no secret that we love Carol Feller's designs. They are clever, stylish, fun to knit and fabulous to wear! Carol has run many wonderful Knit-a-longs over the last few years via her Ravelry group and this autumn she's embarking on her biggest KAL yet. It's for the truly stunning Mithral sweater, and we can't wait to get started! Even...

It's that time of year again! Yarn Dating returns for another fun-packed evening filled with yarn fumes and general frolics! We'll help you find your perfect match as we guide you on a journey through a carefully selected range of new yarns: both thick and thin, multicoloured and solid, made from alpaca, silk, merino and more... As always we will...

In the shop right now, we've got beautiful things on display. You see, we're hosting Tin Can Knits' trunk show, leading up to Emily Wessel's classes next weekend. So we thought we'd showcase some of the gorgeousness here. First up, that's I heart rainbows above. Made in fingering weight and sized from newborn to four years old, this is simply...

We've found a wonderful pairing - Tin Can Knit's Vivid blanket and Townhouse Yarns' "Saoirse" colourway! Vivid is the teaching pattern for one of Emily Wessel's workshops on Saturday June 27th. We can't wait to host Emily - she's a wonderfully inventive designer and such a good teacher. Vivid is the most versatile pattern – made in easy bite-sized squares...

Our Yarn Shop Day last Saturday week was enormous fun, and we'd like to say thank you to everyone who shared it with us! The shop was buzzing right from the moment we opened - a queue had formed outside our front door, so we knew it was going to be good crack! The shop was looking very festive, with...

It's Yarn Shop Day on Saturday May 2nd! So we'll be kicking up our heels with giveaways, competitions, discounts and goodies all day in the shop! We've got so much planned for the day... There'll be a Goody Bag for each of the first ten people through the door on that Saturday morning (we open at 10.30am)! Everyone who spends...

We gave you some tantalising hints a few weeks ago, but now it's official and bookable: Emily Wessel of Tin Can Knits is coming to give two workshops at This Is Knit! Both workshops are on the same day, Saturday June 27th. In the morning, she'll be presenting the Lush Cardigan. It's worked from the top down, starting with the...

We've had some bright, fresh days of late and the stretch in evening is bringing thoughts of sweeping away cobwebs and starting new things! So we figured it's time for a new Knit-a-Long, and that we should go all out and aim for a light and breezy summer garment in anticipation of the long lazy days of summer to come......

Ok, we can't keep this all to ourselves any longer. We've got exciting news, and we can't wait to tell you! Tin Can Knits is coming to This Is Knit, to give not one, but two workshops! We've featured a lot of her designs here, because they're simply some of the best patterns we know. There's the Snowflake jumper above...

It's January SALE time at This is Knit, and we have some fabulous bargains for you! In-store and online, there's 20% off a huge range of yarns, and you can get an even bigger discount when you are registered for our loyalty scheme*... Members of our loyalty club will receive a 5th ball FREE when they buy any 4 sale...

We're delighted to shout this from the rooftops: the innocent Big Knit is underway for 2014/15! Ever since 2008, little hats have been adorning innocent smoothie bottles and raising over €100,000 to help older people stay warm and safe. And again this year, This Is Knit is delighted to support the campaign. If you're round Dublin this coming Thursday, November...

The Knitting and Stitching Show in the RDS opened yesterday, and we're having a ball! This year, we're exclusively partnering Malabrigo Yarns, so our stand is looking utterly glorious. There's all our usual favourites, like Rios, Silkpaca and Sock, but we're also introducing some new beauties. There's Mecha, which is a chunky superwash pure merino (that's it in the picture...

It's been hard to keep this to ourselves, but finally we can tell the world: the Irish Yarn Club 2015 is open for membership! The Irish Yarn Club 2015 will run from February to June 2015 and will feature three shipments of exclusive Irish hand-dyed yarns. These will be unique and never-to-be-repeated colourways by Townhouse Yarns, Dublin Dye Company and...