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
031: Speed Knitting with Grace Akhrem
Who doesn't want to learn to knit faster?! Today we talk with knitwear designer and instructor, Grace Akhrem about her new Craftsy class, "Knit Faster with Speed Knitting".
030: Vanquishing Creative Demons with Kim Werker
Meet Kim Werker, "camp counselor for grown ups" and the author of Make It Mighty Ugly, a handbook for vanquishing creative demons. Felicia talks with Kim about how to conquer fear of fa…
029: Meet Canadian Knitwear Designer Amanda Kaffka, The Crafty Jackalope
Today, we are talking with Vancouver, Canada-based knitwear designer, Amanda Kaffka of The Crafty Jackalope.
Amanda Kaffka learned to knit on arbutus twigs when she was six and hasn’t l…
"Fall with SweetGeorgia" Make-Along 2016 Announcement
We are hosting our first annual Fall with SweetGeorgia Make Along or MAL starting next Tuesday, October 11 and we would love for all our listeners to come join us. All of the details ar…
028: Welcome Back! Season 2 Begins
We are back and in this quick mini-episode, Felicia catches up with what's happening right now with SweetGeorgia, book, and baby. I talk about my Taking Back Friday creativity experimen…
027: Jacey Boggs Faulkner of PLY Magazine
Jacey Boggs Faulkner has been spinning for 13 years, teaching spinning for 11 years, writing about spinning for 10 years, and running a magazine about spinning for 3 years. As the found…
026: Sonia Ruyts of Stash and the Stash Podcast
Today I’m talking with Sonia Ruyts, the owner of a yarn store in Oregon called Stash. Sonia is a passionate knitter, business owner, and mother and this past fall, she started a podcast…
025: Louise Zass-Bangham on Knitting and Playing with Colour
Meet the designer of the Foolproof cowl pattern and many others — Louise Zass-Bangham. Louise is the knitwear designer and founder of Inspiration Knits. She has just launched a brand ne…
024: Kara Gott Warner of Power Purls Podcast and Creative Knitting Magazine
Today on the show, I am talking to Kara Gott Warner, Executive Editor of Creative Knitting Magazine and host of the Power Purls Podcast.
Kara began her career designing knitting pattern…
023: Liz Gipson of Yarnworker on Rigid Heddle Weaving
Liz Gipson has been absolutely instrumental in the spinning and weaving community for years now. She is passionate about yarn and teaching rigid heddle weaving.
022: Melissa Kwan of Misocraftyknits on Colour and Carpal Tunnel Syndrom
In this episode, I talk to Melissa Kwan, a prolific knit blogger who write Miso Crafty Knits. You’ll hear about how Melissa went from being a super productive knitter who turned out gor…
021: Francoise Danoy of Aroha Knits
Francoise Danoy who is a Franco-Maori American-Australia knitwear designer currently living with her husband in a small village on the southern island Kyushu in Japan. More than just de…
020: Stephannie Tallent on Designing with Cables and Lace
Today on the show, I am speaking with the very talented knitwear designer Stephannie Tallent who has written a number of knitting pattern books including California Revival Knits, Hitch…
019: "Holidays with SweetGeorgia" Collection
In this episode, I chat with our knitwear design director, Tabetha Hedrick, about our new pattern collection, "Holidays with SweetGeorgia". We also talk about how knitting fits in with …
018: Amy Herzog on Designing Sweaters that Fit
Today on the show, I talk with Amy Herzog, a knitwear designer who specializes in sweater knitting. In our conversation, you’ll learn how Amy melded her passion for computer science and…
017: Carol Feller on Designing with Short Rows and Gradient Colours
In this episode, Felicia talks with Carol Feller about designing knitwear patterns that take advantage of hand-dyed colors and the popularity of gradient colourways.
016: Leah Churchley on Anxiety & Knitting
Leah Churchley shares her story of being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and how she manages with the help of knitting.
015: Sasha Ball Rives of Stitch Space
Felicia chats with Sasha Ball Rives, owner of the Stitch Space yarn shop in Missouri about a tragic experience that happened within the first year of the shop opening and how she made i…
014: Rachel Smith on Learning to Spin
In the spirit of Spinzilla, we chat with Rachel Smith, a local Vancouver spinner and knitter who has been blogging about her knitting and spinning since 2009 at welfordpurls.com. Listen…
013: Fiona McLean and Amanda Milne of Knit Social
Today we are going local and talking to Fiona McLean and Amanda Milne — the duo behind Knit Social, a knitting events company based in Vancouver, BC. Together they produce Knit City, BC…