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 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…
Silk and alpaca yarns handpainted with natural dyes and indigo dips Back in July, I had the privilege of attending Earthues’ Dealers Conference, a week-long full day and night workshop on handpainting with natural dyes and indigo. I was a bit hesitant at first since it was scheduled to begin on the night of my…
Near the end of October, I took a very short, very last-minute trip to Tokyo and Kyoto at what ended up being a most economically unfortunate time of the year. The Japanese Yen shot up relative to my Canadian dollar, leaving me with some pretty sad (yarn)buying power. But, I did go to Japan, and…
I am excited for Shannon today as her newest book, Alt Fiber, is released today. Several months ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to do some dyeing for her book and you can see some of the photos I took at that time. Shannon incorporates everything from bamboo and soy to the more obscure banana…
There’s more than one way to get colour on yarn. Tomorrow when we re-open the shop, we’ll be offering a collection of yarns and fibres under the name “Supernatural SweetGeorgia”. Natural and plant dyes create some of the most beautifully nuanced and luscious colours in our history. These colours are full of life and energy….
On the menu today, iron overdyed hemp yarns. Tasty. pot o’ gold For dessert, I think we’ve got some indigo overdyes too. Mmm.
And other days, I am saved by the beauty in things like this: Depth and light. It’s 100g of 20/2 cultivated silk. First dyed lightly in weld. Then dyed in marigold. And finally overdyed in madder. It’s absolutely gorgeous in the skein. And I am grateful for the light it brings into my life. When…
I’ve been making warps. Many many warps. Mostly because I have a lot of yarn lying around… naturally dyed, undyed, synthetically dyed, commercially dyed… omg, that’s a lot of yarn. Rather than using handpainted yarn throughout the whole warp, I’ve taken to mixing it up with a bunch of other solid coloured yarns. One skein…
Reassess. Reconsider. Rediscover. You’ll note that I’m having difficulty writing full sentences right now. I still feel a little hungover from this weekend… I was quite fully and mercilessly drunk on the natural dyes and textiles from [Maiwa's Natural Dye workshop](http://www.maiwa.com/symposium/w_natural_dyes.html), led by Charllotte Kwon, owner and founder of Maiwa… Textiles from every part of…
Nothing says “it’s time to finish washing your fleece” like an upcoming fleece sale. That’s right. This Saturday, June 10, there will be a fleece sale in Langley. I was really considering driving down and buying a nice local fleece — maybe something mohair — but then thought, “hey, maybe I should finish using up…
Ah, so the plan today is to clear off all the work on my desk so that I can go home and dye all weekend, guilt-free. Wish me luck. The dye plan tomorrow is tons of sock yarn, some new soft and silky kid mohair yarns and some BFL… plus more Gotland. All new sock…
_Thank you so much for all your lovely comments about the shawl! It is so satisfying to complete something finally! I’m trying to use the momentum from knitting the shawl to finish my handspun Lotus Blossom Shawl…_ [Sunday's post](http://blog.sweetgeorgiayarns.com/2006/02/on_multitasking/) with the mystery photo was, yes, cochineal bugs. I took the opportunity while the DH was…