The SweetGeorgia Show
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.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 113
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
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…
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 wher…
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 finall…
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…
047: Espace Tricot on Building a Yarn Shop Fueled by Friendship
These days, there are so many sad notices and posts about yarn shops closing and one might think that the future of knitting and brick n' mortar stores is bleak. But today on the show, …
046: Joji Locatelli on Knitwear Design and "Interpretations Vol 4"
Joji Locatelli tells the beautiful story of how she got started knitting, designing, and collaborating with Veera Välimäki on the Interpretations collections.
045: Bristol Ivy, Knitwear Designer on Knitting Outside the Box
Bristol Ivy is a knitwear designer whose work focuses on the intersection of classic tailoring and innovative technique. We talk about her design process and we nerd out about productiv…
044: Shannon Cook of VeryShannon on the journey "Within"
This week's guest is Shannon Cook, a Canadian knitting and sewing pattern designer, author, and publisher and the writer behind the very popular blog, Veryshannon.com
043: Find Your Fade with Andrea Mowry of Drea Renee Knits
Meet Andrea Mowry, the knitter and designer behind Drea Renee Knits. Discover how Andrea came to knitting, designing, and juggling it all with family. Finally, hear all about her latest…
042: Designing and creating wearable, accessible, and beautiful garments with Melanie Berg
Join our conversation with knitwear designer, Melanie Berg, about creating garments and shawls that are interesting, accessible, enjoyable to knit, and easy to wear.
041: Trendspotting with Knitwear Designer, Fiona Ellis
We chat with knitwear designer, Fiona Ellis, and we hear her insight into the trends of knitwear and handcrafts in this new year.
040: A Practical and Powerful Focus for the New Year
This is the first episode of 2017 and I’m excited to share my plans with you for the new year.
039: The Gift of Time
It is fascinating and telling that one of the greatest challenges for all of us creative people, whether we have kids or no kids, is the challenge of having enough time. Sometimes, it f…
038: Inside Knitwear Design with Ysolda Teague
Ysolda Teague might very possibly be one of the most well-known, well-established knitwear designers of our time. Like perhaps many of you, I was first introduced to Ysolda's work thro…
037: Meet Caitlin Ffrench, textile artist and knitwear designer
Caitlin Ffrench is a textile artist working in East Vancouver, Canada. We talk about Caitlin's new knitwear design collection, The Darkness Fell, inspired by her trips to Iceland.
036: Following Your Creative Curiosity with Jillian Moreno
Jillian is a spinner, knitter, weaver, teacher and author AND her latest book "Yarnitecture: A Knitter’s Guide to Spinning" just launched recently. Today on the show, we talk about teac…
035: Educating fibre arts educators with Diana Twiss
At heart, Diana is a teacher. She works full-time as an adult literacy educator for a provincial literacy organization and Capilano University. Diana studied Fine Art and History at uni…
034: The Path to Production Weaving with Denise Renee Grace
Now, if you have been following my blog posts from late this past summer, you might have noticed that I have recently been bitten by the weaving bug again. My mind has been churning wit…
033: Talking with Tabetha Hedrick about Holidays with SweetGeorgia
Today is a bit special and different from the other weekly episodes. Today, we are joined by our very own Design Director for Knitwear at SweetGeorgia Yarns, Tabetha Hedrick. Tabetha is…
032: Designing Knitwear for Baby to Big with Tin Can Knits
Today we chat with Emily and Alexa of Tin Can Knits. An ocean apart (Emily is in Scotland and Alexa is here in Vancouver), this design duo writes fun and accessible knitting books and p…