Stock Updates

We are sharing posts from now until May 25th on what you can expect from us at this year's Woollinn festival and I'm particularly excited be sharing today's featured product with you. It has been almost painful keeping quiet about these exclusive project bags! These have been exclusively designed for This is Knit as a collaboration between local artist (and TIK...

Isn't this hat just a work of art? It's "Toph" from the new Elemental Collection by Woolly Wormhead and when it landed in the shop the other day it got many an "oooh" and an "aaah". Joy recently knit this version from two skeins of the Fibre Co Acadia and she has been simply gushing over the pattern and the...

What is Vicuña? Perhaps you're familiar with the word, or maybe you've only heard it in whispers at your local yarn shop, and have just been too afraid to ask. The best way to summarise it? Vicuña is, what we would call in the fibre community, our unicorn. Vicuña is synonymous with Royalty, luxury, and the highest level of exclusivity,...

This box of pure fun and delight has taken pride of place on the shop floor recently... It's a preview of a very special product that we are currently accepting pre-orders for: the Opal Advent Calendar 2015! As you would expect, this box has 24 tantalising little windows and each side is adorned with a fun Christmas cartoon. Behind each...

Around this time every year a touch of strife visits This is Knit. It comes in the form of oodles of delicious new-season yarns, in all their glorious colours and textures. The reason for the trouble? There's usually a scuffle among staff over who gets to knit with what yarn for our shop samples! This time around I pulled rank...

This gorgeous knit was one of the stars of Yarn Dating 2015, and no wonder: it's a combination of a simple, elegant pattern, a little buttony magic and a lovely new yarn. The pattern is I Want That Wrap, and it's a joy to knit. It's a very wide simple rib, so it's a terrific beginner's pattern. And it's TV...

With our Yarn Dating event happening at the end of the week, we're getting all excited about new stock. Some of it is embargoed till Friday night, but there's a few things we can share, and here's one: Zing needles! Zing is the newest offering from KnitPro, and they're just beautiful. They come in rich jewel colours, one colour to...

Well, we wound up the Random Number Generator and asked it to choose the winner of our S Twist Single Ply competition, and it chose... ...Mairin! Your rainbow-striped blanket sounds beautiful! And we want pictures! Mind you, there were so many other wonderful ideas in the entries. Catherine's Snakes and Ladders picnic blanket made us bounce with excitement, especially now...

Aren't these gorgeous? They're the new colourways in S Twist Single Ply, and we asked their clever producer Diarmuid Commins to introduce them. So with news of an anniversary and a chance to win all the colours, it's over to him! I got a call last week from a farmer wanting to know when I would go to pick up...

In the last couple of weeks, we've had a completely new 100% Irish offering in the shop: S Twist's gorgeous new Hiking Sock Yarn in lovely colours. When Diarmuid Commins introduced his handspun yarn in undyed colourways last May, he wrote a guest post about it for us. We're very happy that he's done the same for his new range!...

Theere's something about that weather outside that's calling for quick knits in comforting fibres. We've got just the yarn, and it's called Herriot Great! It's from Juniper Moon Farm and it's 120 metres of the cosiest, softest baby alpaca you can imagine. The sample hat we have on show at the moment is called, simply, the Herriot Hat, and it...

As we write, it's proper January weather out there: high wind, grey skies and rain. But we've got the antidote to all of that grimness. We've got bright pink silk lace, the combination of very special new yarn and a lovely pattern! This is Heaven Scent, a stunning crescent shawl by Boo Knits. It's got a simple stocking stitch basis...

We all seek comfort at this time of year... some people find it in steaming mugs of hot chocolate, others basking in the warm glow of a fire. But we know there's nothing better than snuggling up with a special yarn, especially one with the soft, fluffy halo of Baby Alpaca... Fyberspates Cumulus is new to our shelves, but it...

We're very pleased to present a brand new kit this year: the Gothic Lace Cowl. It's by the wonderful Tin Can Knits and it's the perfect introduction to lace. Made in delicious kettle-dyed Malabrigo Rios, it'll knit up fast and smoothly. Just look at these glorious saturated colours! We've even handpicked toning buttons to complete your beautiful cowl and included...

Last year, our Marin kit was one of your favourites, so we're delighted to offer it again this year. Ysolda's clever design is a joy to work: interesting enough to keep the knitter engaged, but straightforward enough to let you relax. The result is simply lovely and unfussy, and the yarn really shines through. Once more, we're offering the kit...

It always seems more like the holiday season when the This Is Knit gift kits start appearing, and we've just reached that point. In useful and pretty packaging, we're offering a terrific range this year: yarn and patterns specially chosen to complement each other, giving hours of crafty fun and a gorgeous finished object to boot. There's something for everyone:...

Named for James Herriot, much-loved author and country vet, here's our new Juniper Moon DK. When we showed it at the Yarn Dating, there was a lot of excitement about this delicious 100% alpaca, with incredible softness and the loveliest gentle colour palette. It's finally in stock, and we love it. And we've got the perfect pattern for it too:...

...and yarn that lights up in the dark! It's nearly Hallowe'en, and here's a suitably spectral thing: yarn that glows when light shines on it! It's Rico Glow Worm Luciole, and it's terrific fun. When light isn't shining directly on it, all you see is the bright neon colours. The dazzling strands vanish: What's more, it's got a practical side....