About Me
Hi yarny friends! Welcome, I'm so glad you are here!!
I’m Lisa (she/her), the face and (often messy) hands behind EleventyOne Windmills!
I started this business in 2021with nothing but a box of beaded jewellery I made as a teenager and some big dreams.
Read on to find out more about my work and passions as a designer and creator
Original Artwork
Digital Design
Produced In-House
High-Quality Hand Finishing
The road so far...
I started EleventyOne Windmills in 2021, after leaving a teaching career of almost 20 years.
My little family left the big city and moved to Newcastle, on the east coast of Australia, and the change in routine, lifestyle and a desperate desire to explore my creative side resulted in this design venture.
It has been an exciting time to say the least!
My coolest tool is my laser cutter, and I’m so excited to create innovative products that combine my love of traditional fibre-crafts and cutting edge technology.
Puns always intended.
I'm inspired by nature, fantasy, pop culture and travel and you'll often see a lot of those themes throughout my designs.
I especially love cactuses, succulents and indoor plants, almost as much as I love yarn crafts!
Reading has become a big part of my daily routine and I sneak in a few chapters at lunch and bedtime.
To me, designing products is as much about function as it is about aesthetics. I want my goodies to bring joy, as well as solve practical problems people didn't even realise they had!
Wondering about my brand name?
Pre-kids, Mr Windmills and I took an epic roadtrip, driving and camping around the South East Corner of Australia. We drove south through the mountains, across to the outback regions of central NSW, through the winding hills and rivers of South Australia and along the coast of Victoria. Throughout the drive we fiercely competed over number of windmills we spotted. I claimed victory at the end of our trip with 111 windmills on my tally.
The "Windmills Game" is now the kids favourite roadtrip spotting competition!
My favourite windmill is the Callington Mill in Oatlands, TAS. I discovered on a trip there in 2025 that my favourite gin distillery is now on the same site! Sounds like destiny to me!
"Alas, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits." - Bilbo Baggins
