What feels like a lifetime ago I taught Alex Brooker and Joe Wilkinson how to knit...used Rowan Big Wool yarn - happy to say they got the hang of it!!! Since watched Joe on Celebrity Traitors and was delighted to find him as nice as I'd thought he was!

I knit and crochet am driven by colour, texture, simplicity, gift giving…the simplicity is necessary as I do like a glass of wine in the evening.

Recently taken to - trying to finish something I've started!!!

1975 saw me at the Nuffield in Oxford training to be an Orthopaedic Nurse, I moved to London in ’77 for my SRN - a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.

I mostly loved my time in London and really liked my last job working in Soho at an internet publishing company - over those twenty odd years I was a constant customer at all the fab wool shops…mostly spending money I didn’t have!

Came back to Swansea to be closer to my nonagenarian dad, rattled around for a while in different jobs before settling at the council – few years in I was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer – hard time – but like a phoenix rising from the ashes, I cast off the council and opened a wool shop…a lifelong fantasy (well, wool or books!)

Swansea Bay Yarns Co Ltd has, separate to this website, opened premises in The Mumbles, 4 Cornwall Place, Swansea, SA3 4DP...three years in March 2026....do call in if you're in the vicinity!

Hope you like the website.