Driven by an obsessive, passionate and often tumultuous relationship with colour, Felicia Lo, the founder of SweetGeorgia Yarns, has been writing about all things knitting, spinning, dyeing, and weaving since 2004. Follow her adventure in colour and fibre here »
Designed by Brenda Castiel for Knit Edge magazine, issue three, the Tippi sweater is inspired by a vintage photo for a knit pattern from 1951. Tippi Hedren in The Birds might have worn a top like this, on its own or under a suit jacket. It has a soft collar, buttoned neck, folded cuffs, and…
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The new First Fall 2013 issue of Knitty has just launched and check out the shawl that Lotta Groeger designed in our SweetGeorgia Silk Crush yarn. Knit from the bottom up, the pattern combines lace with smocking and a textured stitch pattern… and knitting from the bottom up means that the rows get shorter the…
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It’s that time again! Could we be thinking about Fall already? Why yes. Our newly built crate was picked up on Wednesday and we can’t wait to unpack it for all of you who are coming to TNNA. There’s LOTS of goodies inside. Grace spun and knit every single one of our spinning fibres, and…
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We often receive requests for yarn for charity knitting and are happy to oblige when we can. But earlier in May, I received a request from the Vancouver International Children’s Festival for their Weaving Workshop. I could not have been more delighted when I saw these photos of what our donations helped make: Vancouver’s International…
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Unless your superhero ability is knitting in your sleep, it probably takes you a bit of time to knit a sweater… me, it takes me anywhere from a couple months to a couple years. Need a little encouragement? We’re hosting a “Sweaters and Shrugs” Knit-along (or crochet-along) this summer, starting June 1st and ending August…
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I don’t know if Emily remembers this, but I met her years and years ago at a knitting “meet up” when she was still living in Vancouver and I was shyly attempting to find a knitting group. She was already a rising star, with her stunning lace designs and great knitwear design mind. Over the…
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Have you met the phenom that is Caitlin Ffrench? Local Vancouverite, Caitlin is a knitwear designer, natural dyer, and artist that is undeniably gorgeous, with her ready smile, fabulously long eyelashes and hot pink (or purple… or blue…) victory roll. She’s designed and knit for television shows, makes her own natural dye mordants from scratch,…
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I love working with designer, Alison Green. She blends beautifully constructed garments with entrancing stitch patterns. The results are elegant and engaging to knit. Alison’s designed a fabulously flattering pullover in our Superwash DK yarn. It features vertical ribs of twisted stitches and a border of bobble-like stitches (NOT bobbles) in a chevron pattern at…
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Buzzing along so far and I finished the yoke instructions out of the original book… then with so many suggestions to check out the errata, I found those instructions to extend the yoke by 1.5″ and add 2″ to the sleeve measurement. I decided to go with the yoke mod and so now I’m just…
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On your marks! Get set! SPIN!!! This fall, the Spinning & Weaving Group of TNNA is planning an event named Spinzilla to be held during Spinning and Weaving week, October 7-13, 2013. The challenge is to form teams to see who can spin the most yarn during spinning and weaving week! Spinzilla will be a…
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Ah… freshly dyed, newly wound, beautiful cakes of cashmere-blend yarn, waiting to be cast on into a new project. It’s so full of promise and yet, I’m approaching this project with so much trepidation. There was a time when I started new projects undaunted, when I would knit through dinner with friends and family, and…
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The joy of working with effectively the same group of students at Place des Arts over three terms is that we can build on what we have done in the term before. Since September, these students have learned to dye fibre using immersion and hand-painting techniques but we never delved too much into colour theory….
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