The SweetGeorgia Show

Felicia Lo: Founder & Creative Director of SweetGeorgia Yarns
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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.

  1. 6D AGO

    S5 E4: Ergonomics for Comfortable Crafting with Physical Therapist Andrea Lui

    Send us a text 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 many years of comfortable, joyful making. Andrea also speaks to the powerful role crafting can play in supporting our mental health. Andrea shares her journey from casual crafter to physical therapist, now specializing in craft-related inju...

    43 min

  2. APR 2

    S5 E3: Weaving a Stronger Community with Radical Weavers (Mairi Breslin & Peter Dickie)

    Send us a text 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 workshops and inclusive teaching methods. Peter Dickie, Mairi’s son, runs the studio’s commercial offerings and community work, showcasing the transformative power of weaving. The Radical Weavers organization, which started as a small ho...

    52 min

  3. MAR 19

    S5 E2: Ease Grief, Create Community, Inspire Generosity with Loose Ends (Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic)

    Send us a text 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 conversation, Felicia Lo speaks with Masey Kaplan and Jen Simonic, co-founders of the Loose Ends project, which connects crafters to finish projects left behind by loved ones who have passed away. They discuss their backgrounds, the inception of L...

    46 min

  4. SEASON 5, EPISODE 1 TRAILER

    Season 5, Episode 1: Welcome Back to the SweetGeorgia Show

    Send us a text 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 crafts represent. We want to understand how the act of making things shapes our identities and how these identities transcend geographical boundaries. In this episode of The SweetGeorgia Show, Felicia Lo reflects on her journey as a maker...

    8 min
  5. Episode 097: The Encouraging, Passionate Spinning Teacher with Debbie Held

    12/17/2019

    Episode 097: The Encouraging, Passionate Spinning Teacher with Debbie Held

    Send us a text 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 knitting and fibre arts world to help SweetGeorgia share the love of colour and craft and Debbie is one of those ambassadors. Debbie was chosen as an ambassador due to her passion for handspinning and her ability to share it with the ...

    49 min
  6. Episode 096: Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens

    12/03/2019

    Episode 096: Finding Playful Joy and Purpose Through Knitting with Claudia Gossens

    Send us a text 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 for yarn, fibre, knitting, and colour in everything she does and recently began sharing her experiences on her podcast: Wollinspirationen (available in German only). It’s always wonderful to be able to chat with yarn shop owners from all over the world so we hope you’ll join Felicia and Claudia for their conversation! &...

    41 min
  7. Episode 095: Organizing your Knitting and Life with the Knitter's Planner

    11/19/2019

    Episode 095: Organizing your Knitting and Life with the Knitter's Planner

    Send us a text This week, Felicia is joined by Kara Gott Warner and Stephanie Palmer of The Knitter's Planner. Kara has been on our show not once, but twice before, as she is the former editor of Creative Knitting Magazine and is now the host of the Power Purls Podcast. She is also a coach for creative women and entrepreneurs and is now the editor of The Knitter's Planner. If you want to listen to Kara's previous episodes with us they are Episode 24 and Episode 50. We are also joined by...

    40 min
  8. Episode 094: Building the Craft Industry Alliance with Abby Glassenberg

    11/05/2019

    Episode 094: Building the Craft Industry Alliance with Abby Glassenberg

    Send us a text 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 While She Naps: which is about the home sewing industry and creative entrepreneurship with a focus on craft publishing, fabric manufacturing, feminism, and social justice. Ten years after she started the blog in 2015 she co-founded Craft Industry Alliance and now serves as its president. Join Felicia an...

    48 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Felicia Lo: Founder & Creative Director of SweetGeorgia Yarns
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
  • Episodes
    103
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2025 The SweetGeorgia Show, SweetGeorgia Yarns Inc
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    The SweetGeorgia Show

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