The SweetGeorgia Show

By Felicia Lo: Founder & Creative Director of SweetGeorgia Yarns

What's The SweetGeorgia Show about?

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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The SweetGeorgia Show episodes:

12.17.2019
Episode 097: The Encouraging, Passionate Spinning Teacher with Debbie Held
This week Felicia is talking with writer and spinner: Debbie Held from Atlanta, Georgia. If you've been following our news at SweetGeorgia this year we created a brand new Ambassador Program this past August and introduced nine people in the...
12.03.2019
Episode 096: Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens
This week on the show, Felicia is chatting with Claudia Gossens: the owner of the yarn shop Lanaphilia in Germany. Claudia has a joyful passion and excitement for yarn, fibre, knitting, and colour in everything she does and recently began...
11.19.2019
Episode 095: Organizing your Knitting and Life with the Knitter's Planner
This week, Felicia is joined by Kara Gott Warner and Stephanie Palmer of The Knitter's Planner. Kara has been on our show not once, but twice before, as she is the former editor of Creative Knitting Magazine and is now...
11.05.2019
Episode 094: Building the Craft Industry Alliance with Abby Glassenberg
This week on the show, Felicia is chatting with Abby Glassenberg: a sewing pattern designer, craft book author, writer, and teacher. Since 2005 she's been writing a blog called While She Naps: which is about the home sewing industry and...
10.22.2019
093: Teaching the World to Weave with Kelly Casanova
This week Felicia is joined by weaver, teacher, and designer: Kelly Casanova, from Melbourne Australia. Kelly runs an online weaving school called: Kelly Casanova Weaving Lessons and has been working tirelessly to create ongoing weaving instruction, initially with a rigid heddle...
10.08.2019
Episode 092: Cameron Taylor-Brown and the Art of Teaching
This week on the show, Felicia is talking with Cameron Taylor-Brown: an artist, weaver, and educator. Cameron studied fibre arts at the University of California, Berkeley with Ed Rossbach and then textile design at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and...
09.24.2019
091: Weaving up New Dreams with Angela Smith
This week on the show Felicia is joined by Angela Smith, the founder and creative director of Purl & Loop. Felicia has mentioned Purl & Loop many times before on the SweetGeorgia YouTube channel because, as an avid weaver, she...
09.10.2019
Episode 090: Photographing Knitwear with Abbye Dahl
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...
08.27.2019
089: Spinning up a Storm with Spincycle Yarns
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...
08.13.2019
088: Textile Art with Mariana Frochtengarten
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....
07.30.2019
087: Exploring Norwegian Colourwork Knitting with Eli of Skeindeer Knits
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...
07.16.2019
086: Benjamin Krudwig on the Millenial Myth
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...
07.02.2019
085: Weaving with Meaning with Sarah Resnick of GIST Yarn & Fibre
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...
06.18.2019
084: Slow Fibre in a Fast World with Katrina Stewart
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...
06.04.2019
083: Sustainable and Slow Yarns with Nomad Noos
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...
05.21.2019
082: Crafting a Creative Business with Hanna Lisa Haferkamp
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...
05.07.2019
081: Finding Your Colour Courage with Tien Chiu
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...
04.23.2019
080: Cakes, Colourwork, and Vikings with Dianna Walla
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...
04.09.2019
079: Street Fashion and Modern Colour in Knitwear Design with Caitlin Hunter
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...
03.26.2019
078: Creating Colour Systems with Alanna Wilcox
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...
03.12.2019
077: Knitting Design and Life Through the Lens with Sylvia McFadden
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...
02.26.2019
076: Zombies, Skulls, and Sheep - Extraordinary Colourwork with Andrea Rangel
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...
02.12.2019
075: Kicking off with Questions about Creativity, Art, and Fear with Felicia Lo Wong
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...
01.23.2018
074: Seasons of Craft with Felicia Lo
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...
01.16.2018
073: Weaving What Makes You Happy with Jane Stafford
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...
01.09.2018
072: Exploring Sustainable Fibre Farming with Anna Hunter
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...
01.02.2018
071: Finding What Sings to You: Romi Hill on Shawl Design
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...
12.26.2017
070: Regal Beading in Knitting with Sivia Harding
This week Felicia is joined by Sivia Harding, a knitwear designer who has been working with fiber and art ever since she can remember. As a youth she became obsessed with the fiber arts and dabbled in weaving, spinning, and...
12.19.2017
069: Preserving Natural Dyeing Traditions with Kristine Vejar
This week Felicia chats with one of her personal heroes in the world of hand-crafted colour: Kristine Vejar. Kristine is a natural dyer, teacher, owner of A Verb for Keeping Warm and the author of The Modern Natural Dyer. She...
12.12.2017
068: Creating a Community Through Colour with A Yarn Story
Today Felicia welcomes another yarn shop owner to the show: Carmen Schmidt. Carmen is the owner of A Yarn Story, a knitting shop in Bath, England. She’s also begun a new venture called Walcot Yarns, with the goal of producing...
12.05.2017
067: Publishing for a New Generation of Knitters with Pom Pom
This week, Felicia talks with Meghan Fernandes and Lydia Gluck: the two co-founders and editors of Pom Pom Quarterly. If you aren’t already familiar with what Pom Pom is, it’s a beautiful, fresh, and modern quarterly magazine for knitting, crochet,...
11.28.2017
066: Ambitious Artistic Knits with Linda Marveng
Today Felicia is joined by Norwegian knitwear designer Linda Marveng. With a background in architectural history, Linda’s design work is stunningly sleek, fashion-forward, and often highly textured with intricate cables. Linda has had several dream jobs in the yarn industry...
11.21.2017
065: Slow Fashion and Mindful Making with Emma Welford
This week Felicia is joined by knitwear designer, Emma Welford. Emma lives in Western Massachusetts and has been knitting since 2007 and designing since 2011. She is a fellow multi-craftual maker who also sews her own clothes, crochets, and spins...
11.14.2017
064: Masterful Weaving with Laura Fry
When you think of mastery in the fibre arts, a few names may spring into your mind. You might think of experts in the field who are working professionally, proficiently, and prolifically. In the field of weaving, you may think...
11.07.2017
063: Planning Your Knitting Life with Martina Behm
This week Felicia is talking with knitwear designer Martina Behm. Martina, a mother of two who currently resides in Northern Germany, has been knitting since she was 12 but started getting serious about it in 2006. Since that time she has...
10.31.2017
062: Leah Churchley on Combatting Chronic Illness with Crafting
Today Felicia once again chats with Leah Churchley. You might remember Leah from episode 16 of the podcast where she talked her about her experiences with anxiety and how she managed it with knitting. That was back in October 2015,...
10.24.2017
061: Evolving your Creativity and Craft with Jean Chung
On this week’s episode, Felicia is chatting with Jean Chung, a knitwear/clothing designer who has been knitting since 1992 and designing since 2011. She has been published in Twist Collective, Knitscene, and Holla Knits. Jean is now focusing on publishing...
10.17.2017
060: Patty Lyons on Teaching the Mindful Knitter
Today Felicia is chatting with Patty Lyons: a nationally recognized knitting teacher and technique expert who is known for teaching the “why” not just the “how” in the pursuit of training the mindful knitter. She specializes in sweater design and...
10.10.2017
059: Starting a Weaving Movement with Maryanne Moodie
This week Felicia chats with Maryanne Moodie: a weaver, creative artist, and instructor. Maryanne is a fibre-obsessed maker working between Melbourne and New York. She divides her time between designing woven wall hangings, developing weaving kits, and teaching sold out...
10.03.2017
058: Fall with SweetGeorgia Vol 3 Launch with Tabetha Hedrick
This week Felicia chats with SweetGeorgia’s Design Director, Tabetha Hedrick about the new Fall with SweetGeorgia collection. The ladies discuss their hectic fall schedules and reveal the inspiration behind the 12 new patterns released just in time for the fall...
09.26.2017
057: A Conversation on Colour with Kaffe Fassett
This week, Felicia speaks with Kaffe Fassett, a leading textiles designer and practitioner of contemporary crafts. He has a loyal following of patchworkers, knitters and embroiderers all over the world. A Californian by birth, he moved to the UK in 1964...
09.19.2017
056: What I Did This Summer by Felicia Lo
In this episode, Felicia gives a little preview into the upcoming episodes of Season 3 of this podcast and reviews her summer spent building the School of SweetGeorgia, an online video-based fibre arts school for colour-obsessed crafters. Hear about the...
05.09.2017
055: Minisode! School of SweetGeorgia // putting it in the universe and on Patreon
It's only been a couple weeks since we closed up Season 2 of The SweetGeorgia Show, but I'm back today with a little tiny minisode about my Patreon and School of SweetGeorgia announcement yesterday.
04.18.2017
054: The Season 2 Q&A Finale with Felicia Lo
This is our first ever Q&A; episode and Felicia answers YOUR questions! I received nearly 750 question suggestions and finally picked a few popular questions to answer... Questions about craft and creativity, getting creatively unstuck, starting and growing an indie...
04.11.2017
053: Jen Lucas on Stunning Stitches and being an knitwear author
This week, Felicia speaks with Jen Lucas, a knitwear designer who has been knitting since 2004 and designing since 2008. Her designs have been published in several knitting magazines, including Interweave Knits, Knitscene, and Love of Knitting. In fact, you...
04.04.2017
052: Barbara Benson on Mosaic & Lace Kntting
Meet knitwear designer, Barbara Benson, who has just released a new book that combines two-colour mosaic knitting with lace knitting... and this technique and the projects in this book are seriously awesome and I can't wait for Barbara to tell...
03.28.2017
051: Erica Jones of Weavolution on Weaving Community
Today's guest, Erica Jones, runs Weavolution.com together with her husband, Oliver. Weavolution is an online international handweaving community that spans over a 100 different interest groups from rigid heddle to backstrap weaving to tapestry weaving. There are groups for people...
03.21.2017
050: Kara Gott Warner on a new creative chapter & a podcast announcement
Today's guest is Kara Gott Warner, the host of the Power Purls Podcast and is the former executive editor of Creative Knitting Magazine. The Power Purls Podcast is a weekly podcast where Kara empowers newbie knitting entrepreneurs to start and...
03.14.2017
049 Spring with SweetGeorgia, Vol 2 Launch with Tabetha Hedrick
(Just a note, today's episode sounds rough on Felicia's side of the conversation... almost like she's talking into a tin can, but hopefully you'll still enjoy our chat!) March is finally here and we are delighted to share with you...
03.07.2017
048: Angela Tong on Being a Multi-Passionate Crafter
Angela Tong is a lifelong crafter with a soft spot for the fiber arts, but she's never met a craft she didn't like. A certified instructor through the Craft Yarn Council of America, she leads workshops all over the New...

What's The SweetGeorgia Show about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The SweetGeorgia Show episodes:

Episode 097: The Encouraging, Passionate Spinning Teacher with Debbie Held

Episode 096: Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens

Episode 095: Organizing your Knitting and Life with the Knitter's Planner

Episode 094: Building the Craft Industry Alliance with Abby Glassenberg

093: Teaching the World to Weave with Kelly Casanova

Episode 092: Cameron Taylor-Brown and the Art of Teaching

091: Weaving up New Dreams with Angela Smith

Episode 090: Photographing Knitwear with Abbye Dahl

089: Spinning up a Storm with Spincycle Yarns

088: Textile Art with Mariana Frochtengarten

087: Exploring Norwegian Colourwork Knitting with Eli of Skeindeer Knits

086: Benjamin Krudwig on the Millenial Myth

085: Weaving with Meaning with Sarah Resnick of GIST Yarn & Fibre

084: Slow Fibre in a Fast World with Katrina Stewart

083: Sustainable and Slow Yarns with Nomad Noos

082: Crafting a Creative Business with Hanna Lisa Haferkamp

081: Finding Your Colour Courage with Tien Chiu

080: Cakes, Colourwork, and Vikings with Dianna Walla

079: Street Fashion and Modern Colour in Knitwear Design with Caitlin Hunter

078: Creating Colour Systems with Alanna Wilcox

077: Knitting Design and Life Through the Lens with Sylvia McFadden

076: Zombies, Skulls, and Sheep - Extraordinary Colourwork with Andrea Rangel

075: Kicking off with Questions about Creativity, Art, and Fear with Felicia Lo Wong

074: Seasons of Craft with Felicia Lo

073: Weaving What Makes You Happy with Jane Stafford

072: Exploring Sustainable Fibre Farming with Anna Hunter

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

070: Regal Beading in Knitting with Sivia Harding

069: Preserving Natural Dyeing Traditions with Kristine Vejar

068: Creating a Community Through Colour with A Yarn Story

067: Publishing for a New Generation of Knitters with Pom Pom

066: Ambitious Artistic Knits with Linda Marveng

065: Slow Fashion and Mindful Making with Emma Welford

064: Masterful Weaving with Laura Fry

063: Planning Your Knitting Life with Martina Behm

062: Leah Churchley on Combatting Chronic Illness with Crafting

061: Evolving your Creativity and Craft with Jean Chung

060: Patty Lyons on Teaching the Mindful Knitter

059: Starting a Weaving Movement with Maryanne Moodie

058: Fall with SweetGeorgia Vol 3 Launch with Tabetha Hedrick

057: A Conversation on Colour with Kaffe Fassett

056: What I Did This Summer by Felicia Lo

055: Minisode! School of SweetGeorgia // putting it in the universe and on Patreon

054: The Season 2 Q&A Finale with Felicia Lo

053: Jen Lucas on Stunning Stitches and being an knitwear author

052: Barbara Benson on Mosaic & Lace Kntting

051: Erica Jones of Weavolution on Weaving Community

050: Kara Gott Warner on a new creative chapter & a podcast announcement

049 Spring with SweetGeorgia, Vol 2 Launch with Tabetha Hedrick

048: Angela Tong on Being a Multi-Passionate Crafter