About Us

Who are the Wyrd Sisters and how do you say that anyway?

The Wyrd Sisters are also known as “The Three Fates” or “The Norns” in both Scandinavian and Greek mythology. Three women spin, measure or weave, and cut the thread of a person’s life.  Shakespeare wrote them into Macbeth; Terry Pratchett wrote a Disc World novel called The Wyrd Sisters.  Its seems our three sisters have had quite a long and illustrious history!

Wyrd Sisters, purveyors of yarns and such, are mostly one person.  Me, who has apparently taken to referring to herself in the third person.  There is at least one other Wyrd sister involved with the store and two Wyrd brothers.

Our Proprietress has a PhD in anthropology and taught college classes in both anthropology and women’s studies for a good long stretch of time. Her craftiness was inherited from both mother and grandmother, and thus has been a major part of said Proprietress’ life for a long, long time.  At some recent point in time the idea of opening a yarn store seemed A Perfectly Reasonable One.  So here we go.  Come on down and sit a spell.  The terrible coffee is on us.

Wonder what our store is like? Take a peek at our videos on YouTube!

How do you pronounce “Wyrd?” It’s pronounce “weird.”  Creative pronunciation will most definitely be welcomed at the shop!

With that in mind…

Are you curious about our web presence on Ravelry, Facebook and Flickr? We were too, so it was decided we needed to see who’s who!

Here is a quick list of our wonderful Ravelry patrons. By the way, have you joined our wonderfully fun group yet? It’s growing faster by the day.

As an FYI, our Facebook page can be seen even if you are not a member of Facebook. That means if we *ahem* offer some huge deals, everyone can read about them without worry. So click awaaaaaaaay!