Family yarns

Apparently Jacqui Sisk likes knitting so much, she spent much of the 80s making matching woolly jumpsuits for her four children. Unsurprisingly, her daughter Lisa grew up a little averse to the craft, and after making the compulsory teddy bear in school, laid down her knitting needles. But, like mother like daughter perhaps, the fixation caught up with Lisa a few years ago in a hostel in New Zealand, while watching a fellow backpacker knit away the nights. There is, after all, something so homely about creating something with your hands. Four months later she returned to Dublin, hooked.

Jacqui and Lisa started This is Knit at a little stall in Blackrock Market in 2006, and have since migrated into a shop at the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre. More than just somewhere to buy knitting needles, their shop is one of those lovely places where customers can pop in for a yarn, a bit of advice or to show off their latest creations.

You probably won’t find any woolly jumpsuits.