Events

On Saturday week, September 27th, we crafters get a chance to make the world a wee bit better. HandmAid, the Dublin craft charity day, is having its fourth annual outing, from 10.30 am to 4.30pm, and everyone's welcome! Every year, HandmAid raises funds for a different charity. This year, the money raised goes to the Laura Lynn children's hospice, which...

Last Friday evening, a lot of lovely people gathered in the loft in the Powerscourt Centre for our Yarn Dating, and it was an awful lot of fun! And oh! the yarn: new offerings from Juniper Moon, Noro, Townhouse Yarns, Debbie Bliss, Dublin Dye Company, Louisa Harding...the list goes on and on! There were yarn stations set up for our...

Our favourite night of the year will be happening again on Friday August 29th. Believe it or not, this is the sixth year that we've asked you to join us for an evening of yarn sampling, so we've decided to shake things up a little. This time, instead of Yarn Tasting, we're going Yarn Dating! Gone are the tiny sample...

It's Scavenger Hunt time! Until next Sunday, it's World Wide Knit in Public Week, and there are This Is Knit customers all over the place, snapping pictures of their knitting and crochet. You can find details of the competition here, and this is the Ravelry thread for posting your images. But we've promised you a look at the prizes, so...

There's chatter all over the place about our Scavenger Hunt, even though the picture-posting doesn't start until Monday. Over on twitter, for example, there's a sudden interest in unicycles.... We promised you a how-to for editing a Ravelry post to add additional pictures, and here you are! (This is also useful for when you want to go back and add...

There's quite a buzz at the counter and online about the WWKiP Scavenger Hunt. A lot of you will be using smartphones to take your pictures, so a few hints on getting them from the phone to Ravelry might be useful. You'll find the main Ravelry wiki page on uploading pictures at this link. There's lots of different options, and...

Summer's here, and round here that means World Wide Knit in Public Day! It's always a huge lot of fun (a whole week of it) with special events happening all over the world, and this year you can win prizes from This Is Knit in our WWKiP Picture Scavenger Hunt! All you have to do is take pictures of a...

We're only barely containing our excitement at the moment - Ysolda Teague's shawl design workshop is happening here in less than a month, on Saturday May 17th. There's still a couple of places available, though there's been a lot of interest. There's even a group flying in specially from Scotland for the day! When it comes to shawl design, Ysolda's...

We're heading into St Patrick's Festival this weekend, and it's Cast On Time for our Spring Knit Along tomorrow. There's been great excitement in the shop, choosing yarn and colour combinations, so we're delighted to announce that we're offering a 10% discount for the KAL across a whole range of lovely sportweight and fingering options. This discount is available for...

It's St Patrick's Festival this coming weekend (hurray!) and we've got some changes to our usual Bank Holiday weekend opening hours. We're open on Saturday and Sunday as normal, but we're closed on Monday March 17th itself. So if you're in town on Saturday or Sunday, drop by and say hello. The Powerscourt Centre's all dressed up for the Festival...

We’re simply delighted to announce that Ysolda Teague is coming back to This Is Knit for a third time! This time she's giving us a new shawl design workshop, which she calls Shawl Geometry. It’ll be on Saturday May 17th, and it lasts the whole day from 10.00am until 5.00pm (with a break for lunch, of course). Ysolda's shawls are...

There's something very satisfying about making a garment that fits its wearer comfortably and well, and this little jacket is a perfect example. It's Carol Feller's Rossbeg and it's got a massive age range of two to ten years. And since not all wee ones are the same shape, you can customise it very easily. Knitted from the top down,...

It's always a good day when you get to announce good news, so we're particularly happy today. First of all, our winter sale has just started, and there's so much lovely yarn available at big discounts! You can find details of what's on offer at this link, and of course the sale is online as well as in the shop!...

With the New Year just cast on, it's a good time to remind ourselves of what 2013 brought us - and didn't it do well? Early in the year, we blogged about Veera Välimäki's Color Affection shawl, and someone suggested a Knit-Along, and from then on, it was one glorious striped shawl after another! There was so much fun to...

On Thursday next, all of us at the Powerscourt Centre are having a very special evening in aid of the Simon Community, and we'd love if you could make it. There'll be music and mulled wine and a light show against the front of the building on South William Street, all in aid of a very good cause. As our...

It's that time of year again! Festive preparations are in full swing all over the place, the decorations in the Powerscourt Centre are particularly beautiful, and we're well into the swing of Christmas crochet and knitting. We're delighted to announce that we've scheduled extra crocheted and knitted Christmas decoration classes this year. These are some of the most fun classes...

If you are planning a trip to a certain Show this weekend, then we'd like to invite you to pay us a visit too :) We are offering a juicy 15% off in-store purchases of the following 15 yarn ranges* - these are bargains not to be missed! Debbie Bliss BFL Aran Debbie Bliss BFL DK Debbie Bliss Milano Debbie...

We've been sitting on our hands for the last 6 weeks or so, as we have been very excited about the plans for this new Club. Finally we are able to share the details with you all! The Irish Yarn Club 2014 will run from January to May 2014 and will feature three shipments of unique Irish Hand-Dyed Yarns. Each...