Jo Shaw has a Level 3 City and Guilds in Hand Knit Textiles and works at A Good Yarn, Cleethorpes, as well as tutoring knitting workshops.

Textiles are in her genes. She lives in England and many generations of her family have been in the textile trade, including her father who was a successful Nottingham lace designer. 

37 Things you may not know about me

  1. I love knitting!
  2. I had music scholarships in both Piano and Clarinet
  3. My dad was a lace designer
  4. I’m an archer
  5. I know how to tat
  6. I’m an only child
  7. I went to dance school when I was little and studied ballet, tap and acrobatics
  8. I can still do the splits!
  9. I know how to play bridge
  10. I looove White Chocolate Chip cookies and have a rating system for all the different kinds (very sad I know !)
  11. I get decidedly soppy around dogs
  12. We don’t have a dog at the moment
  13. My parents had Labradors, the current one is a yellow Lab called Tess.
  14. I don’t drink alcohol – though I love my Mum’s Sherry Trifle (does that count?)
  15. I have letters after my name, LL.B (Hons) 
  16. I’ve been to the Galapagos Islands
  17. I’m a voracious reader (my novel count is numbering into the thousands now!)
  18. For the last 10 years I’ve kept a book journal
  19. I grew up in Nottinghamshire but moved away at 18
  20. I was home schooled from the age of 13
  21. I did A-level Maths, Chemistry and Biology
  22. I can make temari balls (Japanese thread balls)
  23. As I have been told many times – I have a very dirty laugh
  24. My favourite book genre is Fantasy
  25. My favourite author is Robin Hobb
  26. My favourite colour is blue
  27. I studied French, Spanish and Latin at school
  28. I’ve never been on a motorbike
  29. I’m a little bit scared of geese
  30. I don’t mind spiders but I’m scared of snakes.
  31. We used to keep Koi carp
  32. I used to fish a lot with my Dad and am happy to hold a fish
  33. I love black olives
  34. I was addicted to World of Warcraft for many years...I had 3 levelled capped characters – a Paladin, Priest and a Mage
  35. I have quite a few Japanese crafts books but don’t know a word of Japanese!
  36. I find the incorrect use of apostrophes very annoying
  37. I own several musical instruments – piano, clarinet, guitar, banjo mandolin, accordion, violin and a tenor recorder