Hello Friends – It’s been a wonder-filled year. As a little thank you I’m giving away six copies of my patterns. You can see them on Ravelry HERE. Please comment on this post with your choice of pattern and your Ravelry name. I’ll choose winners at random when I return from my break on 14 …
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Author Archives: Lily Turner
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3rd January 2020Pattern Giveaway!
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8th October 2018
Slow Fashion October
A place to start… I just had to join in. I started by building a mood board on Pinterest. It’s funny, really – at this point it consists of a whole lot of hand knits, one patchwork skirt and a highly impractical pair of boots. It really is me, in a nutshell. Then, I started …
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7th March 2018A Black Yarn
After much rumination and research, I have finally dyed up some black yarn. Black yarn is associated with a big problem – something known as “crocking” – when pigment rubs off on your fingers as you knit. (The same thing happens with new indigo-dyed jeans that rub off on your skin when you wear them) …
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29th December 2017Ninilchik
I was curious to see if my Wishbone Solo base and my Wishbone Flax Flower base marry well together in a garment. So I cast on a Ninilchik Swoncho by Caitlin Hunter, something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time…. After all, these bases come from the same mill and they are the same weight …
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23rd December 2017Introducing Wishbone Flax Flower!
I’ve been wanting this yarn base for more than a year. My shipment arrived a few weeks ago and I am so excited! I want to re-knit everything that I’ve ever knitted …. This is a colour way that will be available after Christmas, once the sale is over. It’s an old favourite of mine …
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16th September 2017
Barefoot.
I know that you call the last hot days of Summer and Indian Summer. But what do you call the first hot days of Spring? We had a few of those a few weeks ago. I was able to wear a t-shirt and jeans and walk barefoot. I dyed “Barefoot” with a warm breeze blowing …
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10th September 2017
Mudlarking
Traditionally, a mudlark was someone who scavenged in river mud for items of value – a term used especially for those who scavenged this way in London during the late 18th and 19th centuries. Mudlarks would search the muddy shores of the River Thames at low tide for anything that could be sold – and …
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29th August 2017
Woman From Tokyo.
Once, years ago on the London tube… just after I had convinced myself that I’d seen Robert de Nero reading the billboards on the platform at Sloane Square… a Japanese woman embarked and sat across from me. She took out a Nabokov book and started to read. I think it was Terra Incognita. I had …
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29th August 2017
Peacocks of the past.
The peacocks… most unpredictable of fowl. I love making them though.
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5th July 2017
The Purples and the Pinks.
I have file upon file of images – old botanical illustrations, paintings & photographs… I love looking through them and matching them to yarn colours. The colour of the skein above is Rose Petals. It reminds me of a particular rambling rose in my grandmother’s garden – a tiny bloom with dark edges, fading into …
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