Hi there! I’m Becca Johanson, founder and dyer here at Puzzle Tree Yarns. I started this company in 2018 as a way to solve my colour problems. I love projects with multiple colours, but I noticed that mini-skein options were limited, and buying several large skeins of yarn for a multicolour project was too expensive. So I began dyeing mini skeins in my kitchen and selling them at Wet Coast Wools in Vancouver. Skip ahead a few years and I now dye all sizes of skeins, with multiple fibre options, in an ever evolving palette of rainbow colours. You can find my yarn in person at various yarn shows (check out my main page for dates and locations), Wet Coast Wools and Urban Yarns in Vancouver, or on this website.
I’m also a screenwriter— make sure to check out my latest TV movie, “A Love Yarn”, on CityTV and various streaming services. It’s a romantic comedy featuring yarn and sheep and the wonderful New Zealand countryside! Not to be missed by any Hallmark-movie lover or fibre artist. See the full description below.
A Love Yarn
The owner of a quaint New Zealand yarn shop, Sophie Markham, gets her world flipped upside down after learning her top supplier of yarn, King Farms, is stopping production. Much to her surprise, the charming yet stuck-in-his-ways Samuel King has traveled all the way from New York to audit the business model of the farm. Desperate to keep her shop going, Sophie convinces Samuel to give her two weeks to learn the ropes of yarn spinning and raise enough money to buy the mill herself. With Samuel's help, Sophie comes up with a fundraising plan to host a "knit-off" and auction at the local makers market. However, when the two weeks come to an end Sophie finds herself at a crossroads of business and romance. Could she have misinterpreted Samuel's growing romantic interest in her as just business all along?