The SweetGeorgia Show

Send us Fan Mail 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 grow a thriving passion-crafted business through engaging conversations with knitwear designers, industry rock stars and everyday knit...

Send us Fan Mail (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 our new Spring with SweetGeorgia, Vol 2 collection ! The designs in this collection capture everything that is casual, playful, and...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Jersey area and teaches classes online at Craftsy.com. You can find Angela's knitwear and crochet designs in magazines such as Knitscene and Knit Sim...

Send us Fan Mail 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, I chat with two passionate knitters and shop owners who are doing it right and have seen year-over-year success with their yarn shop, Espace Tricot. In July 2017, Melissa Clulow and Lisa di Fru...

Send us Fan Mail Joji Locatelli tells the beautiful story of how she got started knitting, designing, and collaborating with Veera Välimäki on the Interpretations collections.

Send us Fan Mail 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 productivity practices including bullet journaling.

Send us Fan Mail 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

Send us Fan Mail 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 shawl design, Find Your Fade, and how she works with colour.

Send us Fan Mail Join our conversation with knitwear designer, Melanie Berg, about creating garments and shawls that are interesting, accessible, enjoyable to knit, and easy to wear. 

Send us Fan Mail We chat with knitwear designer, Fiona Ellis, and we hear her insight into the trends of knitwear and handcrafts in this new year. 

Send us Fan Mail This is the first episode of 2017 and I’m excited to share my plans with you for the new year.

Send us Fan Mail 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 feels like the greatest opponent to creativity is having enough time. Today's episode is a little wind up for 2016 and it will just be me today, talking about time.

Send us Fan Mail 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 through her shawl pattern, Ishbel. To date, it is one of the most widely knit shawl patterns on Ravelry. It's been knit nearly 14,000 times since she published it in 2009. Since that time, she...

Send us Fan Mail 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. 

Send us Fan Mail 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 teaching, swatching and sampling in spinning, and taking the intimidation out of making your own yarn.

Send us Fan Mail 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 university and art education at teacher’s college. Passionate about fibre, fabric, colour and texture, she has introduced many beginners to the wonders of making yarn and has helped experienced spinner...

Send us Fan Mail 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 with so many ideas about things I want to put on the loom and weave. I just want to weave all the things. So when I was thinking of guests for the show, I knew I wanted to connect with Denise Renee Gr...

Send us Fan Mail 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 a very accomplished knitwear designer, photographer, blogger, writer, editor and more. She’s been working with us at SweetGeorgia over the past year and a half now, to really focus on creating knit...

Send us Fan Mail 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 patterns, the most recent is MAD COLOUR. Tin Can Knits patterns are sized from baby to big so you can knit adorable nerdy matching sweaters for mamas and munchkins alike. Listen in as we chat about d...

Send us Fan Mail 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".

Send us Fan Mail 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 failure, procrastination, and other creative demons in order to move forward and get "unstuck" creatively.

Send us Fan Mail 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 looked up since. She has been caught knitting at traffic lights, cafés and beaches, but her backyard is her favorite place to knit alongside her husband and Kitty.  Always knitting, never waiting, yo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 are on our website at http://sweetgeorgiayarns.com/mal16 but I thought I would highlight the main points for you guys here.

Send us Fan Mail 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 experiment too. Looking forward to more episodes with you soon!

Send us Fan Mail 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 founder and editor in chief of PLY magazine, you might say her whole life revolves around spinning, that is when it’s not revolving around her wonderful husband, her amazing 3 kids, and her ever-growing...