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The SweetGeorgia Show

Felicia Lo: Founder & Creative Director of SweetGeorgia Yarns

Join Felicia Lo, founder of SweetGeorgia Yarns, as she explores the sweet spot between craft, creativity, and colour together with some of the most inspiring knitters, spinners, designers, shop owners, and makers in this handmade community.

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Episode 090: Photographing Knitwear with Abbye Dahl

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/09/10

This week on the show, Felicia chats with Abbye Dahl: a Vancouver-based knitwear designer and professional photographer. Abbye is no stranger to SweetGeorgia Yarns as she created a collection of hat patterns using our yarns called: Cloche Knits. Abbye has also designed a follow-up collection called Cloche Knits 2. If you haven't seen the photos in Cloche Knits, they are stunning and elegantly shot. Now Abbye is about to share her deep photography knowledge and experience with knitters and she is

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089: Spinning up a Storm with Spincycle Yarns

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/08/27

This week, Felicia is chatting with Rachel Price and Kate Burge of Spincycle Yarns. Spincycle Yarns is a very unique yarn company as they create small batch mill-spun yarn, spun from fibre that they hand dye so the yarns look and feel like handspun! You have probably seen Spincycle Yarns featured in such designs like Andrea Mowry's The Shiftcowl and Nightshift shawl among many others. Join Felicia, Rachel, and Kate as they chat about all things colour and spinning! "...the first time we ever hung

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088: Textile Art with Mariana Frochtengarten

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/08/13

This week, Felicia is joined on the show by Mariana Frochtengarten: a textile artist and art educator with an extensive background in dyeing. Specifically, she's had more than 20 years of experience in resists dyeing techniques like batik and shibori. A few years ago, Mariana worked at SweetGeorgia as one of the dyers in our dye team but now has begun teaching art. This past summer, Mariana has once again been reunited with us as we recorded a course for The School of SweetGeorgia all about shibori

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087: Exploring Norwegian Colourwork Knitting with Eli...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/07/30

On this week's episode, Felicia is chatting with Eli: a London-based Norwegian knitting pattern designer highly influenced by traditional Norwegian knitting. She is also the hostess of the Skeindeer Knits podcast and has published over 100 episodes! Join Felicia and Eli as they chat about colourwork knitting! "...me personally I think you can change things that have been a certain way and it will still be that thing and ok but even if it's not that thing anymore... that's how things take on new

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086: Benjamin Krudwig on the Millenial Myth

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/07/16

This week Felicia welcomes Benjamin Krudwig: a textile and fashion designer from Lafayette, Colorado. Benjamin teaches tapestry and rigid heddle weaving in shops along the Colorado front range. When he isn't designing, he's spending time with his wife and two cats! Join Felicia and Benjamin as they discuss how to welcome more people into the fibre arts world! "What I've figured out that works best for me is scheduling it into my life... from this time to this time I'm going to be in my studio

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085: Weaving with Meaning with Sarah Resnick of GIST...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/07/02

This week, Felicia is talking with Sarah Resnick, the founder of GIST Yarn & Fibre: a little shop dedicated to providing beautiful and unusual yarn and weaving supplies to inspire the community of weavers. Join Felicia and Sarah as they discuss the resurgence of weaving within the crafting community! "I... like the process of... making it but... one thing I love about weaving is that it's so tangible... and it's so great for making things that people will have for a long time... the Jewish prayer

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084: Slow Fibre in a Fast World with Katrina Stewart

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/06/18

This week, Felicia has a special in-studio guest: Katrina Stewart of Crafty Jak's. Crafty Jak's was founded by the mother-daughter team of Judi and Katrina as a way to share the things that they love about crafts and the fibre arts such as hand-dyed yarns, as well as hand-dyed and hand-carded spinning fibre. Katrina also teaches various spinning classes at our SweetGeorgia studios as well as other yarn shops in town. We have also recently released a video-based online workshop called Carding for

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083: Sustainable and Slow Yarns with Nomad Noos

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/06/04

This week Felicia welcomes Coty Jeronimus to The SweetGeorgia Show. Coty is one of the co-founders of Nomad Noos: a new mission-driven luxury yarn company that is dedicated to the concept of slow cloth and slow fashion. Coty and her co-founder Alessandra work to bring handspun, sustainably sourced yarn from Mongolia and Nepal to the hand knitting community. At the core of their mission is this question: What if your favourite knitted project not only gives you a good feeling but also has a positive

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082: Crafting a Creative Business with Hanna Lisa...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/05/21

This week Felicia is chatting with Hanna Lisa Haferkamp who runs HLH Designs: a project bag and knitting tool company. Alongside HLH, Hanna Lisa also runs a successful coaching practice for creative business owners and co-founded and currently runs Making Stories: an independent knitwear design publishing company. Join Felicia and Hanna Lisa as they discuss how to start, run, and sustain a creative business. “Starting off a production based business, starting off small and really focusing on making

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081: Finding Your Colour Courage with Tien Chiu

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/05/07

Our guest this week is Tien Chiu: a master weaver and (in Tien’s own words) a “certified colour nut”. Tien’s work has been exhibited in museums and featured on the cover of Handwoven magazine. She’s the author of Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work; a book about creative process in craft. She has woven hundred of handwoven fabric swatches and dyed over 2,500 yarn samples in her quest to understand colour. Tien now teaches about colour in weaving at

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080: Cakes, Colourwork, and Vikings with Dianna Walla

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/04/23

This week, Felicia is chatting with Dianna Walla, a knitwear designer currently based in Montreal, Canada. Originally from the United States, Dianna has also lived in Northern Norway for 2 years. The nordic region continues to have a strong influence on her work and she is especially inspired by stranded colourwork in Norwegian knitting. She’s created many colourwork patterns for magazines, yarn companies, yarn stores, and her own brand: Paper Tiger. She also creates videos dealing with colourwork

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079: Street Fashion and Modern Colour in Knitwear...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/04/09

This week, Felicia is chatting with Caitlin Hunter. Caitlin runs her own knitwear design company called Boyland Knitworks and lives in Oregon with her husband and three boys. Caitlin has a degree in apparel design and manufacturing and worked as a designer in the traditional fashion manufacturing industry before leaving her career to care for her children before becoming the successful knitwear designer she is today. Caitlin’s garments feature fantastic stranded colourwork and are designed to be

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078: Creating Colour Systems with Alanna Wilcox

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/03/26

This week’s guest is Alanna Wilcox: a Master Spinner, art educator, weaver, knitter, artist, author, and teacher! Alanna has also written an incredible book on spinning, A New Spin On Colour and a dyeing guide, Dyeing To Get The Colours You Want. Please join Felicia and Alanna as they discuss spinning and Alanna’s massive dye formula project she is undertaking! In this episode, we talk about: 1:45 Alanna chats about how she got into the fibre arts 4:01 Alanna shares her journey of becoming a

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077: Knitting Design and Life Through the Lens with...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/03/12

Sylvia is a knitwear designer who has self-published several knitwear design collections. She is well-known for her Waiting for Rainshawl which is one of the first shawls of this design to use short rows and lace together. Sylvia is also a photographer and does all the photography for her gorgeous collections. Please join us this week as Felicia and Sylvia discuss photographing knitwear! In this episode, we talk about: 2:05 Felicia and Sylvia reminisce about when they first met at Knit City years

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076: Zombies, Skulls, and Sheep - Extraordinary...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/02/26

This week Felicia is chatting with Andrea Rangel: a prolific and popular knitwear designer living in Victoria, British Columbia. She is the author of two books: Alterknit Stitch Dictionary and Rugged Knits. Although creating knitting patterns and planning workshops keeps her busy most of the time, Andrea also loves cycling and hiking when she can. She also has a great passion for sewing and dreams of having a wardrobe that is entirely handmade! Please join us as Felicia and Andrea discuss colourwork

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075: Kicking off with Questions about Creativity,...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2019/02/12

Welcome to the first episode of season four of The SweetGeorgia Show! Thank you all for your patience in waiting for this season as it’s been a long time coming. Last year was a busy one of new challenges as we worked diligently to grow my online fibre arts school: The School of SweetGeorgia. Now that the school is off the ground, it’s time to get back to having great discussions with some amazing artists. Please join Felicia this week as she kicks off the fourth season of The SweetGeorgia Show! In

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074: Seasons of Craft with Felicia Lo

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2018/01/23

Thank you for joining us this season on The SweetGeorgia Show! This is the last episode this season and we are doing things a little differently from usual. This week, Felicia is by herself and wants to share with you the idea of “seasons”, why we do this podcast, and why we make it in the way that we do. Perhaps this discussion of seasons will inspire you to think differently about your own crafting life. Please join Felicia this week as she discusses the Seasons of Craft! In this episode, Felicia

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073: Weaving What Makes You Happy with Jane Stafford

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2018/01/16

This week Felicia is joined by Jane Stafford: production weaver, teacher, and business owner behind Jane Stafford Textiles on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia. For over 35 years, Jane has been exploring weaving and has built the most extraordinary career in textiles. Jane is the instructor for Louet dealers in North America and you might recognize her from her teaching on Louet’s instructional DVDs and videos. It’s also no coincidence that Jane shares her name with Louet’s newest table loom

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072: Exploring Sustainable Fibre Farming with Anna...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2018/01/09

This week Felicia is joined by Anna Hunter: knitter, business owner, entrepreneur, community leader, and now shepherdess and homesteader. For some of our listeners in the audience who are from our local Vancouver, BC area, you’ll recall that Anna was the founder of the Baaad Anna’s yarn store in East Vancouver. About two and a half years ago, she sold the store to a longtime friend and customer Paula who has continued to build the store. Since that time Anna, her husband, and her two young sons have

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071: Finding What Sings to You: Romi Hill on Shawl...

The SweetGeorgia Show ·

2018/01/02

This week Felicia is joined by Romi Hill, a knitwear and jewelry designer. Romi is an inspiration as a knitwear designer who has been working in a very specialized niche in the knitting world. She designs gorgeous shawl pins that go with her equally gorgeous lace shawl patterns. Romi’s work is breathtakingly delicate and awe-inspiring so it’s no surprise her Ravelry group is over 9,000 members strong! Please join us today as Felicia chats with Romi about how she found her passion in designing lace

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