About Tim Cardy

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I’m a lifelong fiber obsessive nerd, unapologetic fiber & yarn hoarder, and the mildly overqualified human behind YARN sb. What started as a love of making quietly escalated into a studio, a shop, and a life built one stitch (and one questionable impulse buy) at a time.

I take yarn very seriously.
Everything else? Slightly less so.

• 50+ years tangled up in fiber and textiles
   
• 30+ years teaching everyone from brand-new stitchers to very serious makers
   
• Advanced degrees in historical fashion and decorative handcrafts
   
• Professional experience that’s taken me through:
   
  • Yarn mills and upholstery sourcing
     
  • Fashion costing (yes, that’s a real thing)
     
  • Textile R&D
     
  • Conservation, restoration, and research
    (the museum kind — think Met and V&A levels of nerdiness)
     

Good materials matter. Good humor helps.

Every yarn here is chosen with care — for color, texture, hand, and how it behaves once it leaves the shelf. Tools are selected because they work, feel right, and don’t betray you mid-row. Vendors are gently interrogated about quality and ethics before they earn a place in the shop.

Whether you’re knitting your very first stitches or quietly hiding new skeins in your laundry basket, you’re in good company. We see you. We approve. And we probably have a yarn you’ll love — even if you didn’t come in looking for it.