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 »
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….
I try to make Spinning and Dyeing classes at Place des Arts very flexible and adapt what we learn based on what the students are most interested in learning. This time around the students were keen on putting together an indigo vat and seeing what that was all about. Even though I’ve made my own…
Operation Turkey Trot has landed! Check out the Jimmy Beans Wool blog about this wonderful holiday project. This year, JBW is offering a very special holiday collection featuring limited edition colourways from Malabrigo, Lorna’s Laces, Jade Sapphire, Madelinetosh, Koigu, Fyberspates, Dream in Color, and us, SweetGeorgia… all inspired by our favourite holiday dishes. All of…
There’s frost in the morning, my new snowboard is all ready to go, and the red cups are back at Starbucks. It can only mean one thing. Winter is coming and the holidays will be upon us soon! Now, being Canadian, I’ve already had my Thanksgiving holiday dinner with my family a couple weeks ago,…
The Knit City weekend is almost here and it’s been such a joy to work with Fiona and Amanda as they produce Vancouver’s own fibre festival. We’ve taken inspiration from their lovely Knit City logo and created a custom colourway for this year’s event. We’ve dyed our Tough Love Sock and Superwash Chunky yarns in…
For Fall, I was craving colours that were just a bit moodier and more roughed up. Shipwreck. Rogue. Tavern. Chai Spice. They conjure images of shadows in twilight and darkened cobblestone alleys contrasted with the warmth of a fire, safe harbour and comfort. We love our “gently” variegated colourways too because they can become the…
A couple weeks ago, I was excited to teach my first dye workshop in a couple years. Since I opened the studio in 2008, I had held a few dye workshops in our space, but as we got busier with more and more production dyeing, it just wasn’t feasible to have students in the very…
With all the excitement around publishing the winners of the KAL, I nearly forgot to post about this! I’m very excited to be taking over the teaching of both of Irene Weisner’s workshops this Spring at Place des Arts. Irene was my instructor for a couple years at Place des Arts and I am half-thrilled,…
Three new spring colourways: Lettuce Wrap, Creme Brulee and Lemon Curd In the spirit of some lemon-lime fresh and light spring cleaning, we’ve added three new colourways to our line. Lettuce Wrap, Creme Brulee and Lemon Curd are all available in all our yarns and fibres at the shop. We’ve also updated our colourways page…
Closeup of the August 2010 Yarn Club Colourway: Hummingbird Tough Love Sock for August Merino Bamboo Silk the fibre // Merino Bamboo Silk. 50% fine merino wool, 25% bamboo, 25% tussah silk. An exquisite blend of merino, bamboo and silk makes this spinning fibre lustrous, elegant and warm. the yarn // Tough Love Sock. Our…
It’s true, Vancouver is usually pretty grey during the winters — especially February and November (when, I believe, it rained 28 out of 30 days in 2009). So, I’ve sort of avoided dyeing any sort of grey hue. The crisp lighting in the studio encourages me to dye brighter, more saturated colours, but I love…
After a good nights’ sleep, I started Friday morning with a dye workshop with Amy King of Spunky Eclectic. Our dye room was actually one of the beautiful River Lodges with a wonderful view of the golf course. Great natural light lit up our session which was made even more cozy with the fresh hot…