Events

That's our Nadia right there, with her handsome beau John. And while Nadia is wearing a stunning Stripe Study shawl, that's not the purpose of sharing these pictures with you here, oh no... This lovely couple are getting married next Monday the 2nd of September and, of course, most of the TIK family will be in attendance. It's going to...

We have two announcements in one today! On Saturday 5th October, we'll be hosting not one but two wonderful workshops, led by internationally renowned designers! In the morning, Gudrun Johnston will be giving a class on Shetland lace. She's the designer of many This Is Knit favourites, including the Aestlight shawl. Lisa and Jacqui each knitted one each last year...

Thursday night was Yarn Tasting night, and there's an awful lot to report! Fascinating speakers, new yarn to try, projects to plan, friends to catch up with, new friends to make.... We started upstairs, taking over Jig's theatre space for the evening. There was much excited rummaging through the goody bags, because there was brand new yarn to play with....

With just over a week to go before the Yarn Tasting, we're happy to say that four places have become available this morning, and they're nabbable right at this booking link! If your name is on the waiting list, you'll have received an email telling you that there's room, and then it's fastest finger first! So check your email and...

We're delighted to say that last Saturday's Hat Design Workshop with Woolly Wormhead was a huge success! Her guiding principle is that everyone has a hat that suits them, even if they haven't found it yet, so in spite of the heat, we had great fun trying on the hats she'd brought with her. And that was more than thirty...

One of the many lovely things about running a yarn shop is seeing our customers and friends progress in their crafts, gaining more confidence and developing new skills all the time. Aoibhe Ni was already a highly skilled craftsperson when we first met her, but in the last few years she has become an incredibly talented designer, with a huge...

Join us on Thursday the 15th of August for the *fifth* annual Yarn Tasting event at This is Knit... We have another incredible night of yarn-based fun planned for you all with not one but two special guests - Debbie Bliss and Louisa Harding. They will be presenting their new Autumn/Winter collections and will have oodles of sample garments to...

We're delighted to welcome the words of world-famous Irish designer Carol Feller to our wee blog today. Carol recently travelled to the yarn industry's biggest trade show, called "TNNA", in Columbus Ohio. The June show (that Lisa and Jacqui attended back in 2009, and hope to make it back to some *year* soon!) previews all that the yarn world has...

Four months ago, a mild flirtation round here with Veera Välimäki's Color Affection shawl pattern blossomed into a full-scale Knit-Along, and then there really was no stopping you! That image above is the rollcall of images that were posted in the Knit-Along thread, and at a conservative estimate there's more than thirty two kilometres of gorgeousness there! (And the thing...

This time of the year is rather special around here, because it's World Wide Knit in Public time! So to celebrate, we're having not one but two prize draws! Prize Draw One works like this: any time that you spend €20 either in the shop or online between Saturday the 8th of June and Saturday the 15th of June inclusive,...

We're simply thrilled to announce that the wonderful Ysolda Teague is coming back to This Is Knit! She's giving us her excellent Perfect Sweater workshop once more, a repeat of the one that sold out so fast and was so well received back in September. It'll be on Saturday 31st August, and it lasts the whole day. She's the designer...

Knitting can be a little square. Working rows and rows one above the other tends to give you a two-dimensional fabric, and sometimes it would be nice to have a bit of a curve. That's where short rows come in. Short rowing is what makes the lovely curve on Carol Feller's Maenad shawl in the picture above. It means that...

There's something rather nice about the very final stages of a project - the last few ends to weave in, the buttons to sew on, a waft of the steam iron, and then it's done, ready to take its place beside the other finished objects. Years are like that: the planning, the execution, the modification on the fly, and then...

You'll probably have noticed that at This Is Knit, we love lace rather a lot. So we're tremendously excited to be organising the first ever Irish Indie Dyers Yarn Club! The Club will run from January to March 2013, and each month, the members will receive a completely exclusive colourway of a stunning lace yarn from a different Irish indie...

This morning, we took excited delivery of some very special new things: lovely yarn bowls, exclusively hand-thrown for us by a very talented craftsman. They come in two colours of glaze, the gentle blue in the picture and a pale green, and they're all individual, as you'd expect in something handmade. They all have a handy notch in the side...

Yarn Tasting 2012 can really be summed up by that picture: lovely new yarn and fibre, and it's hers, all hers! We were so excited as 7.30pm approached on Friday - we had so much to share with you and so much to talk about. We gathered in the Powerscourt Townhouse Theatre for the first part of the evening (the...

Back in July, we mentioned that we were looking forward an awful lot to Louisa Harding's new Orielle, a luxurious alpaca yarn with the subtlest touch of gold sparkle. It's now in the shop, and it's even lovelier than we imagined. You can see the colour range in the picture above. And because we've got a lot of sample garments...

Well, the dust has settled, and we're steadily recovering from the Ravellenic Games. Team This Is Knit did us all proud - sixteen triumphant medallists, many with more than one medal. We'd like to extend very special thanks to our two captains, Jacqui and Nadia, who organised the entire team (and we're never easy to organise!), provided assistance, encouragement and...