Welcome! We are Barb and Cynthia: sisters, teachers, podcasters, previous yarn shop owners and now, hosts of Yarniversity. We’d love to invite you to check out our YouTube Channel where we post a monthly video podcast and tutorial videos.

We’ve been working together since we were children, helping out in our family businesses, and for the last 20 years we operated a local yarn shop (LYS) in Edmonton, Alberta. We have similar backgrounds in corporate training, business management and presentation but it was the yarn shop where we became experts in problem solving. 

As yarn shop owners, we had the benefit of helping our customers all the way through their projects, 

• from the very beginning of the process…I want to make this pattern - can I use this yarn? 
• to the problems like - I don’t understand what I need to do next…or I ran out of yarn and it’s discontinued… - now what do I do? It’s way too big….what did I do wrong?
• to the yoyful celebrations when something turns out Better than you thought it would… 

 We’ve also had the good fortune to learn from the best. We’ve taken classes with master knitters, spinners and weavers, from colour experts, fiber mill owners, alpaca farmers, yarn company representatives, dyers and designers, and more.

This experience, we feel, has made us better coaches and given us a broad level of expertise that we want to share with you.