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 I’ve been dyeing yarn since 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 ability on this business alongside HSD, chronic vestibular migraines, and ADHD, which makes things tricky to say the least, but we keep going, don't we?! 🦓 🥰

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 sell wholesale to yarn shops as the discount expected erodes my income too much, 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 frequently shave my hair off on a whim, despite dreaming of having long silver locks. I adore kawaii, my cats and other people's cats, swearing, and my silver hair (occasionally dyed blue or purple). Yarn is everything 🐑 As is colour 🌈 I crochet, knit, cross stitch, and spin yarn.

I'm a chatty introvert, working at home suits me down to the ground as I can't cope with too much 'out there' 🥰

Everything I do on here is for you beans. I want to make awesome yarn related products so you can live your best craft lives 🤘