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 kn

Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens

Dec 3rd, 2019 40m 31s

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 shari

Organizing your Knitting and Life with the Knitter's Planner

Nov 19th, 2019 39m 56s

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 the host of the Power Pur

Building the Craft Industry Alliance with Abby Glassenberg

Nov 5th, 2019 48m 11s

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 creativ

Teaching the World to Weave with Kelly Casanova

Oct 22nd, 2019 37m 2s

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 instr

Cameron Taylor-Brown and the Art of Teaching

Oct 8th, 2019 47m 29s

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 T

Weaving up New Dreams with Angela Smith

Sep 24th, 2019 36m 2s

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 is a huge fan of

Photographing Knitwear with Abbye Dahl

Sep 10th, 2019 38m 32s

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

Spinning up a Storm with Spincycle Yarns

Aug 27th, 2019 45m 47s

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 hand

Textile Art with Mariana Frochtengarten

Aug 13th, 2019 39m 1s

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 s

Exploring Norwegian Colourwork Knitting with Eli of Skeindeer Knits

Jul 30th, 2019 38m 47s

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 epis

Benjamin Krudwig on the Millenial Myth

Jul 16th, 2019 30m 30s

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 h

Weaving with Meaning with Sarah Resnick of GIST Yarn & Fibre

Jul 2nd, 2019 33m 8s

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

Slow Fibre in a Fast World with Katrina Stewart

Jun 18th, 2019 54m 5s

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

Sustainable and Slow Yarns with Nomad Noos

Jun 4th, 2019 34m 2s

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

Crafting a Creative Business with Hanna Lisa Haferkamp

May 21st, 2019 51m 58s

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

Finding Your Colour Courage with Tien Chiu

May 7th, 2019 42m 19s

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 f

080: Cakes, Colourwork, and Vikings with Dianna Walla

Apr 23rd, 2019 45m 16s

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 inf

Street Fashion and Modern Colour in Knitwear Design with Caitlin Hunter

Apr 9th, 2019 41m 13s

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 a

Creating Colour Systems with Alanna Wilcox

Mar 26th, 2019 42m 46s

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 Wan

Knitting Design and Life Through the Lens with Sylvia McFadden

Mar 12th, 2019 52m 36s

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 phot

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

Feb 26th, 2019 55m 26s

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 a

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

Feb 12th, 2019 9m 9s

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 onli

Seasons of Craft with Felicia Lo

Jan 23rd, 2018 20m 28s

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

Weaving What Makes You Happy with Jane Stafford

Jan 16th, 2018 55m 36s

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 extr