Geraldine Warner

Geraldine Warner has been knitting and crocheting since the age of seven. She has worked at the creative end of media and digital marketing industries, but recent years have seen her exploring handknit history. Her current work finds her exploring a way to combine her passion for knitted textiles, social commentary and literature. Bad (although possibly accurate) careers advice at school told her she would never be an illustrator (or an ice-cream lady, her first choice), so she found ways to illustrate stories using a different method: through knitting. Under the pseudonym Trixie von Purl, she has written two knitted character books: Knit Your Own Kama Sutra (2015) and Pride & Preju-Knits (2015), and produced a stop-motion promotional flier to promote the latter. She has written two books under her own name: Knit Back In Time (2013) and Vintage Knit (2014), and her knowledge of 20th century handknitting led to a talk at the London Fashion & Textiles Museum to coincide with the museum's 'Knitwear' exhibition. She has recently been included in Ceci N'est Pas Un Pull (2017), a book collection of fibre artists. Protest Knits is her own small way of making a positive contribution to the current political climate and encouraging others to make themselves heard through knitting, a fantastic grass roots medium. A self-confessed nightbird knitter, during the day she can be found spreading the word about the joys of craftsmanship at Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft in East Sussex, UK.