About Me

I'm Tracey, and I'm the sole founder of What Mustard Made, est. Nov 2017. I live with my long term partner Peter and our adorable rescue cats in the North East of England. 

I began with 'side hustling' stitch markers, and moved into dyeing yarn (and occasionally fibre) from May 2018 🥳 I quit my office job of fifteen years in March 2021, and What Mustard Made is now how I earn my living full time, in my home studio where it's nice and safe for my migraine brain. I honestly can't imagine doing anything else now. Small batch hand dyed yarn is my passion 🥰

I am a disabled creator working to the best of my abilities on this business alongside HSD, chronic vestibular migraines, and ADHD, which makes things tricky to say the least, but it's worth it! 🦓

You will never find me at yarn festivals due to my sensory hypersensitivity - it's just not a good environment for my brain! 🤯 I also don't tend to do wholesale to yarn shops, so if you want some of my yarn, this website is the place to get it 🥳

I love oversized jumpers and huge hoodies, anything neon and colourful, ska punk and rock music in most iterations, and retrowave and synthwave are somehow also deep inside my soul. I sometimes shave my hair off on a whim, despite dreaming of having long silver locks (though this has happened less often since I medicated the ADHD). I adore kawaii, my cats and other people's cats, swearing, and my silver hair (occasionally dyed blue or purple). Yarn and colour make me very happy 🐑🌈 I crochet, knit, cross stitch, and occasionally spin yarn.

Tracey x x x