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Ysolda’s coming back again!
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...
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Counting the days
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...
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Hat, hat hooray! Woolly’s coming back!
Last Saturday’s Shawl Design workshop with Ysolda was a huge success, we’re happy to report – we were very sorry to let her go! But we’ve perked right up, because there’s another exciting visitor on...
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Learning something new
It’s the time of year when taking up a new skill or perfecting an old one comes to mind, so this month we’re concentrating on equipping you with the best possible expertise! We’ve revampled our...
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Wee dotes!
If a small someone in your life needs a bear (or if you need one yourself!), we can help. These two characters are the project for Colette’s two-session Toy Knitting class which we recently started...
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Many colours
It’s early days, but 2015 is looking like a Big Year for colourwork! It all started with Kate Davies’ adorable Epistropheid. There’s been a wee outbreak of them among our customers, and we’re jumping...
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Psssst!
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...
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Tin Can Knits workshops!
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...
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Lush
What’s that in the background there, behind the tissue paper pompom? It’s the newest edition to our garment display in the shop: Jacqui’s Lush cardigan (boy, she’s a fast knitter)! Lush is Tin Can...
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Starting at square one!
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...
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Tin Can Knits on show
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...
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Embellishment
We’re thrilled to announce our next workshop, coming up next month. Elanor King will be here for the morning of Saturday 8th August, teaching us her amazing techniques for embellishing our knits....
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Beginner’s Brioche
The word Brioche may get you craving the warm, fluffy, diet-crushing French bread, but today we’re referring to a considerably less guilty indulgence (which is also quite fluffy in it’s own way): the...
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Textured Colourwork with Carol Feller
We’re already well into January, and that means many of us are contemplating our ill-fated New Year’s resolutions. But, there is still time to make some new ones, so why not choose something fun like...
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Turning to Texture – Two Workshops with Woolly Wormhead
As the winds pick up and the leaves start to turn, we find ourselves being drawn more and more to textured knits. Airy lace is being left behind for the simple comforts of garter stitch and cables are...
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Beginner Beauties
As we had our adventurous knits last week, today is a good time to strike some balance and have a little peek at two of our favourite Beginner Knitting patterns. You may be a regular reader of our...
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A Weekend of Shawls with Melanie Berg
We love a good shawl around these parts, and we know you all do too. So what’s an LYS to do? Well, how about scheduling an entire weekend of Shawl Workshops in April next year? We’ve invited the...
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2017: A Year for Yarn
Nadia brings us some of the unmissable events of 2017… January is always a time of plotting and planning here at TIK, as we’re sure it is for many of you. We’ve been busy finalising details and...
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Playful Workshops for the Creative Community
You may have already heard that Kate O’Sullivan from “A Playful Day” is coming to This is Knit in May. Her workshops are now open for booking and, in today’s blog, we’re sharing a little background as...
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Wrapping Up a Weekend of Shawls with Melanie Berg
We had a truly wonderful weekend earlier this month with Melanie Berg’s fabulous trio of shawl workshops. Knitters from far and wide came to learn more about Shawl Construction, Colourwork Shawls and...
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