About the Yarners

Hello Little Shoppers! We are Deb and Kris and we are as obsessed with yarn as you are.

Photo: Shane Zahner

Little Shop for Yarners started as an idea in the later part of 2020 and born in 2021 as a way for us to share our yarn obsession and all things yarnie with the world, well starting with Australia. World domination comes later ?

Deb is a super smart science geek who was the brainchild behind Australia’s first dedicated modern bone museum (she’s an ideas woman), she also has a penchant for dia de los Muertos and is slightly addicted to crochet, knitting and yarn, yarn, yarn.

Kris is a part time payer of people, a full time cattle farmer, expert tractor driver and fence fixer, but would much prefer to ditch the part time gig and spend as much time a humanly possible squishing yarn, crocheting and designing things and actually to one day finish knitting a pair of socks.

The first crochet project the ladies worked on together was a crochet coral reef for the Gympie Bone Museum. This was Deb’s first taste of crochet and she was hooked. Can I tell you a secret, you must promise to not tell….. one of the Mr Yarners had a go at crochet and despite Kris’s lacklustre tutelage he managed to create a thing from a string.. The aformentioned little coral reef is on display at the Museum and if you are in the Gympie area you simply must pop in and have a look. Not just for the crochet, but for all the lovely bones (macabre but fascinating).  

Little Shop for Yarners is here to give you, and us, a good dose of all things yarny. If you have questions, queries or a wishlist for fabulous yarns you’d love to get your hands on please let us know.