Behind the name Liliacraftparty you find Lilia Vanini, who develops knitting patterns for women, children and for your home decor

Liliacraftparty was established in 2015 and since then more than 200 patterns of varying difficulty have been released and more are still coming. Besides patterns, Liliacraftparty develops and sells products that are almost essential when knitting like Knitting Project Bags, Handmade wood crochet hooks, pouch bags and more

When and where did you start knitting?

I grew up watching my grandmother and aunt knit, I always liked crafts, embroidery, knitting, sewing and drawing too and I learned to knit from them and from school, in my 20s I started knitting for me, cardigans and sweaters.

I love to live around the world!, first in USA and the second time in Italy where I currently live, many years I did not touch needles, yarn and I forget completely about knitting, now I realize that I should have started before! When I came to live in Italy I started an online business for my handmade bags, after a while it became a women accessories boutique and among the products I had a knitted hat, one day a customer sent me an email and asked me a question, do you have the knitting pattern for that cute hat? That was my first written knitting pattern and one of the most popular, it is Claire Hat, a lovely newsboy brim hat for girls and women. I started knitting again and my passion was reborn but this time to stay with me, keeping me company all the time

People started asking for more knitting and crochet patterns and I thought wow, it’s actually possible to make money with my passion. So I took my knitting and crochet much more seriously, since then I have not stopped knitting and writing patterns and that is how my brand Liliacraftparty was born.

Knitting has the advantage that you can bring it everywhere. No matter where you are or almost what you are doing or if you only have 5 minutes, you can bring your knitting and knit even just a few rows or stitches. In that way, knitting has become part of who I am, and it feels wrong to leave my house without a project.

I also love to talk about the benefits of doing repetitive work, as knitting and crochet, many do not know that it lowers blood pressure and allows you to relax emotionally by forgetting many of the problems of daily life. Also through repetition somehow it creates a connection with the universe, remember that prayer is done in a repetitive and relaxed way, I have always believed that knitting is somehow a form of prayer and that is beautiful!

I like making educational articles and tutorials for my audience, for that reason I created a special section, I called “My Stitches Database“, I will add more and more stitches, each one will have step by step instructions and video if is possible, why Im doing this? I think is very important to have this handy because this way you can choose, play and test different stitches for your projects, the thing is that this list of stitches are not the ones you find easily, most of them are secret, almost lost or hard to find or translate to english, so this is for you, for all my audience, a gift from Liliacraftparty

I’m so grateful that I can do what I love and hope I can do that for a very long time. I design knitting and crochet patterns with modern designs and classic shapes, focusing on wearability and detail, my patterns are made thinking in all beginners that want to learn to knit and crochet, my goal is to create pretty designs to wear all seasons and to make knitting and crochet just a pleasure and relax moment for you, so let´s knit something beautiful for you and your loves ones!.

Find Lilia’s work also on Etsy and Ravelry!

If you need to contact me, please link to my CONTACT PAGE