Stock Updates

It's the August Bank Holiday on Monday, so This Is Knit is closed. But we've got a special offer to ease you towards the end of this amazing summer. Sublime Superfine Alpaca DK is just the type of yarn you would want to snuggle up with of an evening, whether you're knitting a simple boatneck in soothing stockinette or a...

We're very very proud indeed to have a gorgeous new range to show you: this is Townhouse Yarns. It's our newest hand-dyed offering, and it's special for a couple of reasons. First, it's very lovely. There's two weights available right now in the shop: Grafton, a fingering weight which is 80% merino, 10% cashmere and 10% nylon (so it's perfect...

A month or so back, we featured a guest post from Fiona Parker and Daniel Rye, who keep us supplied with Navia Yarn. They gave us a glimpse of the sort of garments they feature, and now we've got sample garments and pattern books in the shop too, and oh my, they're gorgeous! Our display garments come from Navia Book...

If you've dropped into the shop in the last couple of weeks, you've probably been admiring our newest range, S Twist Yarn: Irish handspun yarn in lovely natural shades. It's a unique product and a very welcome development in Ireland, so we thought you might like to hear from Diarmuid Commins, the man behind this innovative company. So over to...

In our last post, we talked about new knitting tools from Knitpro. The same Knitpro delivery brought good things for crocheters too, and here they are. This is the Wave set: superior tools, beautifully presented. They're designed to be especially comfortable in the hand, with soft rubber grips in size-specific colours. The hook is smooth and just the right amount...

Here's some truly space-age needles! They're Knitpro Karbonz, and they're made of carbon fibre, just like powerboats and space ships and racing cars. We've just got them in as interchangeable tips (sizes 3.00mm to 4.00mm), fixed circulars (from 2.00mm to 2.75mm) and individual sets of DPNs (from 2.25mm to 3.00mm). They're ever so fast to knit with, and the surface...

Today we're delighted to feature a guest post by Fiona Parker and Daniel Rye, who supply us with amazing Navia yarn from the Faroe Islands. As part of the Slow Fashion movement, they're committed to bringing traditional skills and twenty-first century styling to a wider market, and we're very pleased to be part of that. The Faroe Islands - a...

Spring is clearly on the way. The weather's shown an upturn over the last few days, and we've got new Spring/Summer yarn and garments in the shop. One of the loveliest this year is Louisa Harding's brand new Noema. It's a cotton/acrylic blend, and it's got the prettiest long colour changes which work up into a dappled tweedy fabric. The...

Like many people, we're awfully partial to Evelyn Clark's Swallowtail shawl, and we've made it over the years in many different yarns. As you can see from the picture above, we've found a new favourite for it! Katia Airlux is a novel yarn – it's made from fibre blown through a tiny chained tube, and the result is really striking....

We've been talking in the last few weeks about the lovely new yarns and patterns that Debbie Bliss and Louisa Harding showed us at the Yarn Tasting, and here's another star of the show: Debbie's new Milano. This is one of Debbie's new offerings for Autumn/Winter 2013/14. It knits up fast, it's perfect for cardigans and jumpers and jackets and...

One of the star attractions of the Yarn Tasting was Louisa Harding's amazing new yarn Luzia, and the gorgeous sample garments she showed us made up in it. Well, you can imagine how impressed we were when one of our talented customers, Karen, came in just five days later with the lovely cardigan in the picture above. It's the Cora...

There's less than two weeks to go to the Yarn Tasting, and every day brings new deliveries of yarn! It's great fun opening the boxes, and it's great fun making samples to display too. This little cardigan is made in a brand new offering: Sublime Luxurious Aran Tweed, which is a wool, cotton and llama mix. As you can see,...

Round this time of year, we start to receive the goodies that we'll be stocking over the coming autumn and winter, and it's always exciting. We'll be showcasing lots of them at the Yarn Tasting, of course, but honestly, we can't wait that long to share them with you! So here, with some fanfare, is the first: Debbie Bliss Blue...

As of the time of writing, the sun's shining over Dublin out of a cloudless sky, there's a Bank Holiday weekend within hailing distance, and people are talking of cooling drinks after work. So we're thinking of airy summer garments in bright colours, and as ever, Louisa Harding's come up with the goods. That's Oakley up above, one of thirteen...

When you're following a pattern, it saves so much time to be able to read it at a glance and know exactly where you are in it. So a tool like this Knitpro Magma Chart Keeper is invaluable. If you're off on your travels, or just heading out to your knit and crochet group, it's a smart folder which holds...

Just look at those lovely tips! They're the business end of our new needle offerings, ChiaoGoo Red Lace. We've got them both in fixed circulars and as an interchangeable set. The fixed needles are 100cm long, and they have lovely smooth nylon-coated steel cables in a distinctive red. They're an ideal length for any size of project, including anything done...

Excitement's been high in the shop over the last few days, because we got a delivery of wonderful Fyberspates yarn - luxury fibres with beautiful artisan dyeing. The skeins in the picture above are Vivacious 4-ply. It's a 100% merino fingering weight, with a crisp ply that gives fantastic stitch definition. It comes in a gorgeous range of jewel colours,...

Looking for truly Irish yarn, made from the fleece of native sheep and entirely processed in this country, using centuries-old spinning methods? We've got just the thing. It's Studio Donegal Homespun, and it's what's used for that excellent hat. It will knit to Aran or worsted-weight tension, and it's made from 100% Irish fleece. It's mule spun, so it's made...