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 »
This past Tuesday, I was invited to speak at the Richmond Weavers’ & Spinners’ Guild meeting. The Richmond Guild is a wonderfully friendly group of weavers and spinners who have the ultimate in facilities. Their meetings and activities are housed upstairs in the Fibre Arts room of the Richmond Cultural Centre where they have five…
Over the past several weeks, Denise Renee Grace (Customer Service) and Judy Pagels (Sales and Service Manager), both with Schacht Spindle set about learning the spinning techniques in my Craftsy class. And they just blogged about it on Jane Patrick’s “Violet Rose” blog here. It’s great to see how the handknit samples differ from the…
There is much weaving progress going on at the studio… among all the students and weavers, except me! Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, I’ve been so busy with dyeing and writing the never-ending cardigan pattern that I haven’t had time to touch my loom. So instead, Carina is making good…
It’s the end of the work day on a Friday and I’ve been busy winding, packaging and labelling yarn. It’s a never-ending task. I’m kind of beat, but just saw this in my mailbox and got pretty excited… It’s woven shibori on a humble rigid heddle loom. Fantastic, extensive post with complete details and step-by-step…
Now that we’re pretty much at the end of March, I think it’s safe to post about the recent Fibre Club installment… Gumdrops dyed up on Corriedale. Corriedale was the very first fibre I ever dyed. Done up with Koolaid dyes, the fibre poofed up in candy colours and I was immediately smitten with the…
The state of my desk. Call in recruits. I am inching towards completion of many, many things. Yes, indeed, that is five pairs of socks at my desk. Not including the two pairs that are currently in my knitting bag. I don’t think this is the ideal situation, but things are the way they are….
Bluefaced Leicester handspun used for a warp… this is ready to put on the loom now. Sometimes when I’ve spent a zillion hours dyeing the fibre, spinning fine singles yarn, then plying the yarn (ending up with half or even a third of the original yardage) and then soaking and setting the yarn… I feel…
A while back, there were a couple girls who emailed me requesting special orders of some handpainted yarn. They wanted the “Kill Bill” colourway on some non-superwash wool yarn. Now, “Kill Bill” is a pretty high contrast colourway… it’s deep heavy blacks sharply painted on a bright clear yellow backdrop with distinct blood red droplets….
Yesterday, I had a chance in the afternoon to warp both the looms with mixed warp scarves. I managed to use up all my handspun laceweight merino/silk singles as weft for this scarf… and so I’ll have to go back and spin more in order to finish weaving this. So here it is for now:…
Travelling to London has kept my interest partly because their designers, artists and craftsmen are so well supported and encouraged by the local councils that they appear to be able to innovate and create more. So for me, it’s not just yarn tourism… it’s the search for signs of future growth and the pushing forward…
Sarah’s counterbalance loom is here in photos too: I took pictures of the loom and warping mill. Just so you know, I will be asking $500 for the loom (including the bench, extra heddles, and a weaving book) and $200 for the warping mill (the mill would be about $400 new).
This is on behalf of Sarah MacKinnon, a fantastic weaver located in Vancouver who is unfortunately letting go of her yarn and looms… read on if you are interested! I have finally decided to sell my yarn. What’s the best way to pass the message on? Do you know anyone who might be interested? It…