
The SweetGeorgia Show
Join Felicia Lo, founder of SweetGeorgia Yarns, as she explores the sweet spot between craft, creativity, and colour together with some of the most inspiring knitters, spinners, designers, shop owners, and makers in this handmade community.
Episodes
106 episodes
S5 E7: Inside the World of CSMs with Celeste Angello
In this week's episode, we are excited to welcome Celeste Angello, known as the Cranky Spinster, about her journey into the world of circular sock knitting machines (CSM). They discuss the importance of community, the process of restoring antiq...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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37:27

S5 E6: The Evolution of Knitty & Community with Amy Sadler
In this episode of The SweetGeorgia Show, Felicia Lo chats with Amy Sadler, editor of Knitty.com, the longest-running free knitting magazine online. They talk about how Knitty got started, Amy’s path through the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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54:07

S5 E5: Community, Culture & Inclusivity with Knitwear Designer Aimee Sher
Designer Aimee Sher joins Felicia Lo for an inspiring conversation about creativity, inclusivity, and the evolution of modern knitting. Aimee shares her journey from knitter to designer, offering a behind-the-scenes look at her thoughtful desig...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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46:37

S5 E4: Ergonomics for Comfortable Crafting with Physical Therapist Andrea Lui
In this episode of The SweetGeorgia Show, Felicia Lo welcomes Andrea Lui for a thoughtful conversation about crafting and health. Together, they explore the importance of ergonomics while we craft and share preventive measures to help ensure ma...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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42:31

S5 E3: Weaving a Stronger Community with Radical Weavers (Mairi Breslin & Peter Dickie)
In this episode of the Sweet Georgia Show, Felicia explores the work of Radical Weavers, a community weaving studio in Stirling, Scotland. Founded by Mairi Breslin, the studio supports young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds through weaving...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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51:34

S5 E2: Ease Grief, Create Community, Inspire Generosity with Loose Ends (Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic)
Loose Ends is an everyone-is-welcome movement that aims to ease grief, create community, and inspire generosity by matching volunteer handwork finishers with textile projects people have left undone due to death or disability.In this con...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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45:40

Season 5, Episode 1: Welcome Back to the SweetGeorgia Show
The SweetGeorgia Show is set to return with a fresh perspective, aiming to explore the deeper intentions behind crafting. This isn't just a podcast about textiles and handcrafts; it's a conversation about the innovation and identity that these ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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8:16

Episode 097: The Encouraging, Passionate Spinning Teacher with Debbie Held
This week Felicia is talking with writer and spinner: Debbie Held from Atlanta, Georgia. If you've been following our news at SweetGeorgia this year we created a brand new Ambassador Program this past August and introduced nine people in the kn...
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Season 4
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Episode 23
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49:27

Episode 096: Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens
This week on the show, Felicia is chatting with Claudia Gossens: the owner of the yarn shop Lanaphilia in Germany. Claudia has a joyful passion and excitement fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 22
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40:34

Episode 095: Organizing your Knitting and Life with the Knitter's Planner
This week, Felicia is joined by Kara Gott Warner and Stephanie Palmer of
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Season 4
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Episode 21
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39:58

Episode 094: Building the Craft Industry Alliance with Abby Glassenberg
This week on the show, Felicia is chatting with Abby Glassenberg: a sewing pattern designer, craft book author, writer, and teacher. Since 2005 she's been writing a blog called
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Season 4
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Episode 20
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48:14

093: Teaching the World to Weave with Kelly Casanova
This week Felicia is joined by weaver, teacher, and designer: Kelly Casanova, from Melbourne Australia. Kelly runs an online weaving school called:
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Season 4
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Episode 19
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37:05

Episode 092: Cameron Taylor-Brown and the Art of Teaching
This week on the show, Felicia is talking with Cameron Taylor-Brown: an artist, weaver, and educator. Cameron studied fibre arts at the University of California, Berkeley with Ed Rossbach and then textile design at the Philadelphia College of T...
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Season 4
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Episode 18
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47:33

091: Weaving up New Dreams with Angela Smith
This week on the show Felicia is joined by Angela Smith, the founder and creative director of Purl & Loop. Felicia has mentioned Purl & Loop many times before on t...
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Season 4
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Episode 17
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36:04

Episode 090: Photographing Knitwear with Abbye Dahl
This week on the show, Felicia chats with Abbye Dahl: a Vancouver-based knitwear designer and professional photographer. Abbye is no stranger to SweetGeorgia ...
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Season 4
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Episode 16
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38:34

089: Spinning up a Storm with Spincycle Yarns
This week, Felicia is chatting with Rachel Price and Kate Burge of Spincycle Yarns. Spincycle Yarns is a very unique yarn company as they create small batch mill-spun yarn, spun from fibre that they hand dye so the yarns look and feel like hand...
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Season 4
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Episode 15
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45:50

088: Textile Art with Mariana Frochtengarten
This week, Felicia is joined on the show by Mariana Frochtengarten: a textile artist and art educator with an extensive background in dyeing. Specifically, she's had more than 20 years of experience in resists dyeing techniques like batik and s...
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Season 4
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Episode 14
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39:04

087: Exploring Norwegian Colourwork Knitting with Eli of Skeindeer Knits
On this week's episode, Felicia is chatting with Eli: a London-based Norwegian knitting pattern designer highly influenced by traditional Norwegian knitting. She is also the hostess of the
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Season 4
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Episode 13
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38:49

086: Benjamin Krudwig on the Millenial Myth
This week Felicia welcomes Benjamin Krudwig: a textile and fashion designer from Lafayette, Colorado. Benjamin teaches tapestry and rigid heddle weaving in shops along the Colorado front range. When he isn't designing, he's spending time with h...
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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30:31

085: Weaving with Meaning with Sarah Resnick of GIST Yarn & Fibre
This week, Felicia is talking with Sarah Resnick, the founder of GIST Yarn & Fibre: a little shop dedicated to providing beautiful and unusual yarn and weaving s...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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33:10

084: Slow Fibre in a Fast World with Katrina Stewart
This week, Felicia has a special in-studio guest: Katrina Stewart of Crafty Jak's. Crafty Jak's was founded by the mother-daughter team of Judi and Katrina as a ...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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54:08

083: Sustainable and Slow Yarns with Nomad Noos
This week Felicia welcomes Coty Jeronimus to The SweetGeorgia Show. Coty is one of the co-founders of Nomad Noos: a new mission-driven luxury yarn company that is...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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34:04

082: Crafting a Creative Business with Hanna Lisa Haferkamp
This week Felicia is chatting with Hanna Lisa Haferkamp who runs HLH Designs: a project bag and knitting tool company. Alongside HLH, Hanna Lisa also runs a s...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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52:02

081: Finding Your Colour Courage with Tien Chiu
Our guest this week is Tien Chiu: a master weaver and (in Tien’s own words) a “certified colour nut”. Tien’s work has been exhibited in museums and featured on the cover of Handwoven magazine. She’s the author of
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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42:22

080: Cakes, Colourwork, and Vikings with Dianna Walla
This week, Felicia is chatting with Dianna Walla, a knitwear designer currently based in Montreal, Canada. Originally from the United States, Dianna has also lived in Northern Norway for 2 years. The nordic region continues to have a strong inf...
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45:20
