The SweetGeorgia Show

Send us Fan Mail 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 called “Stash, Creative Conversations with Makers and Doers”. 

Send us Fan Mail 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 new book of knitting patterns called Knit Play Colour and there are tons of ideas for using hand-dyed and multicolored yarns in her projects.

Send us Fan Mail 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 patterns in 2002 and her designs have been published in several magazines, including: Creative Knitting, Vogue Knitting, Family Circle Easy Knitting and Interweave Knits. Kara also has a background as a te...

Send us Fan Mail 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.

Send us Fan Mail 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 gorgeous finished objects regularly for her blog to suffering from tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome for the past 9 months. We talked about what Melissa has done to protect and heal her hands so sh...

Send us Fan Mail 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 designing knitwear, Francoise also strives to be a mentor to independent fiber artists, entrepreneurs, and aspiring designers.

Send us Fan Mail 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: Patterns Inspired by the Films of Alfred Hitchcock , and a series of 5 e-books of garments and accessories inspired by the Wild West of Arizona called The Wild West Collection . Her designs are...

Send us Fan Mail 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 our holidays and gift giving plans. I hope you'll join us for the conversation!

Send us Fan Mail 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 technology with her skill and talent in knitwear design and created an online software program called CustomFit. CustomFit allows you to enter in your personal body measurements along with the gaug...

Send us Fan Mail 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. 

Send us Fan Mail Leah Churchley shares her story of being diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and how she manages with the help of knitting.

Send us Fan Mail 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 it through with the help of the knitting community.

Send us Fan Mail 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 to Felicia and Rachel nerd out on spinning today!

Send us Fan Mail 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's largest annual fibre festival (Oct 2 to 4, 2015)

Send us Fan Mail Jane Richmond is a knitwear designer and fellow Canadian living on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. She has been self publishing her designs since 2008 and today Felicia chats with Jane about her designs and collaborating on her latest collections.

Send us Fan Mail   Meet Corrina Ferguson of PicnicKnits, a knitwear designer based in Jacksonville, Florida. Despite the hot weather in Florida, Corrina is still knits constantly. Today we talk about her new book of knitwear designs, "Warm Days, Cool Knits".

Send us Fan Mail Today we celebrate our 10-year anniversary of SweetGeorgia Yarns. In this episode, Felicia shares the stories of starting up and a few of the lessons learned over the years. And we thank the many people who helped bring us here to today.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I chat with our new design director, Tabetha Hedrick about her “behind the scenes” process while developing and working on this fall and winter collection for SweetGeorgia.

Send us Fan Mail Anne Hanson is a designer and life-long knitter who currently teaches and writes about knitting, spinning, and designing at her blog, Knitspot. Anne also founded Bare Naked Wools, a collection of natural coloured yarns. 

Send us Fan Mail Allison Thistlewood is a Canadian living in the UK and growing a community of passionate knitters and spinners there. Together with her "Yarn in the City" business partner, she is blogging, podcasting, and running The Great London Yarn Crawl.

Send us Fan Mail I’ve been wanting to introduce our listeners to some of the really inspiring spinners that I’ve had a chance to meet over the years. Sara Lamb is a spinner, dyer, and weaver who has been my personal fibre hero for years now. 

Send us Fan Mail Last year, we collaborated with a local Vancouver designer, Holli Yeoh, to put together a book of knitting patterns called Tempest. Holli has been designing sophisticated knitting patterns for over a decade and in this episode, we learn how she started.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Felicia chats with New York-based knitwear designer, Laura Nelkin about how she got started knitting, designing, and now teaching on Craftsy.com. Laura talks about her first book, "Knockout Knits" as well as what she's designing next. 

Send us Fan Mail Heather Zoppetti is the founder of the knitting pattern distribution company, Stitch Sprouts, which represents 25 knitwear designers. Heather talks about her background in designing, starting her business, and starting a line of yarns too.

Send us Fan Mail Kate Atherley is a knitwear designer and teacher who has become an expert on knitting socks. Specifically socks that will fit all different shapes and sizes of feet. Listen to this episode to learn how to make adjustments to your own sock knitting methods to get a better fitting, better wearing pair of socks!