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 »
I have so much to share since I’ve been away, traveling, and generally running around getting things done. But I feel like I have to report in reverse chronological order because mid-March just seems so long ago. Let’s start with Vogue Knitting Live in Seattle. Right after getting back from Hong Kong on Wednesday, I…
It’s been less than 10 days since we got back from Long Beach, but already those short days feel like a blur! The Long Beach trade show was our third time showing at TNNA and each time it seems like we have a whole new set of challenges to overcome. This time, the challenge was…
I’ll steal a line from Kim Werker and say that Knit City has really and truly changed the landscape of yarny, crafty things in Vancouver. Now, not only do we have a fiber show in the spring (Fibres West), we get a fibre and yarn show in the fall right in the heart of Vancouver….
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…
As is quickly becoming obvious to me, I’m going to be teaching spinning and dyeing this fall at Place des Arts in Coquitlam. Never experienced the joy that is PdA? You can come down and see it for yourself! Place des Arts is hosting an open house this coming Thursday evening where you can tour…
We’re looking forward to Vancouver’s own fibre festival in October… organized by none other than Amanda and Fiona of Knit Social. You can read all about it in a great article by local writer and Mighty Ugly founder, Kim Werker, in the latest issue of Interweave Knits (Holiday Gifts 2012) Hope to see you all…
…And we’re back. It’s been a couple weeks since Teresa, Carina and returned home from the TNNA trade show in Columbus, Ohio and we’ve been busy getting settled and back into the flow of dyeing and fibre club orders and more. This was our first time attending the show in Columbus (second time showing at…
I believe I travelled to the Mecca of the fibre world last week. It might never have crossed your mind, but much of the spinning, weaving, knitting and fibre world is headquartered in Colorado. Schacht Spindle makes my most favourite spinning wheels and looms in Boulder. Interweave, which publishes Interweave Knits, Spin Off, Handwoven, and…
FibresWest comes and goes so quickly each year. It’s like a rush to pack and ready everything on the Wednesday, getting the car rentals and driving an hour out to Abbotsford (each way — over the weekend, it’s over six hours of driving) to set up our booth on Thursday. Then Friday and Saturday whoosh…
The Greater Vancouver Weavers and Spinners Guild is hosting their annual Memorial Lecture on Monday, March 5th, 2012 at 7:30 pm and they snagged the beloved Judith MacKenzie as their guest speaker: ALL TEXTILE ENTHUSIASTS ARE INVITED TO THIS FREE LECTURE Guest Speaker Judith MacKenzie presents “The Tinkuy Conference in the Sacred Valley of Peru”…
We escaped the cold and wet snow in Vancouver last weekend to Phoenix for the TNNA Winter Show. It was such a complete 180 in terms of weather, but it did not go unappreciated. I love wearing flip flops in January. After all these years, we finally debuted our beloved SweetGeorgia Yarns at our first…
I just woke up to see Kim Werker on the Breakfast Television show where she gave a little preview of what she is doing this weekend (actually starting today) at the One of a Kind Show in Vancouver. See, Kim leads workshops on “confronting creative demons, pushing creative expression & gettin’ crafty in new and…