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The SweetGeorgia Show

Felicia Lo: Founder & Creative Director of SweetGeorgia Yarns

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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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Mike Vecchione is a stand up comedian turned cutting edge journalist. Watch/Listen to Mike Vecchione Investigates every Thursday at 3pm on the GasDigitalNetwork.com/LIVE. The newest 15 episodes are always free, but if you want access to all the archives, watch live, chat live, access to the forums, and get the show 5 days before it comes out everywhere else - you can subscribe now at gasdigitalnetwork.com and use the promo code: MVI for a 14-day free trial and discount on the entire network!
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Bronston Jones joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate Bronston adjusting to East Coast whether coming from Venice Beach, dating by height and Mike's idea to segregate by height, Mike meeting Tony Hawk, Bronston's job as a breakfast nanny, surfing terms you have to know in California, Bronston not having a home, the elderly woman who sat…
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Jill Gonzalez joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate not showering every day, movie dates, dating someone with roommates, why Jill couldn't date a first responder, getting kicked out of a sorority for being too violent, learning about broadcasting, turning down a proposal, fear of child birth, switching from focusing on sports to financ…
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Sean Donelly joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate Sean getting attacked in a bar, Mike watching the Netflix show The Ultimatum, Sean's 90 Day Fiance experience, whether time blindness is a real thing, intermittent fasting, the alien object found in the ocean, the Ukranian daughters facing 5 years in prison for twerking on a grave site…
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Myka Fox joins Mike Vecchione and together they discuss the plotlines on the TV show Suits, the intelligence of cats, conspiracies about the Maui fires, lying to get into college, estrogen vs testosterone, female incels, Myka's dad being a retired dentist, the MMA fighter get's part of his lung cut off due to vaping, Mike going to a Jiu Jitsu gym, …
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Felicia Gillespie joins Mike Vecchione and they investigate Felicia spending 2 months in Austin, Texas, people who lie about the weather, coping mechanisms when not drinking or doing drugs, Felicia calling out a guy at his own house party, the sexiest instruments, being single and dating and what she looks for in a guy, traveling during Covid, ther…
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Reggie Conquest joins Mike Vecchione and they investigate Reggie using Invisalign, his sleep paralysis demon, Mike using Jesus pictures to keep him safe, Reggie converting to Islam during the pandemic, black church vs white church, Mike's trip to Costa Rica being full of bug bites and monkeys on his balcony, Mike almost getting kidnapped, climbing …
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Keren Margolis joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate Mike's time in Tempe during the heat wave, Keren hostessing at the Comedy Cellar and going to NYU to be a lawyer, growing up as an ugly child, unpacking the story of why everyone is mad at Keren after her post about backpacks, dealing with Instagram trolls, being recorded by a drunk …
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Doug Uram joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate an update on the workers dropping debris on Mike's air conditioner, the best way to teach union workers to speak a different language, how Doug learned to be handy, parents that are too accommodating to children, Doug's father's hot temper, divorce rates and why married people are always …
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Kaneez Surka joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate the workers outside Mike's building dropping debris into his air conditioner, why there aren't any Indian parades, Hollywood vs Baliwood and the danger of Americans taking Indian jobs, why Mike should visit India, Kaneez living in South Africa during the Apartheid, Kaneez's embarrassin…
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Jason Choi joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate Mike visiting the low income whites in North Carolina, Jason's height and the difference between being tall and freakishly tall, being compared to Yao Ming, the Italians stealing noodles from the Asians, Jason rebelling against his parents rules and how he learned his work ethic from his…
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Shannon Lee joins Mike Vecchione for a family episode along with Natalie and they discuss Mike and Shannon's outdoor lunch together, the groom who played a prank on his bride by letting her jump into the pool by himself, getting married to a mermaid, the condiment you're not supposed to put on a hot dog, the coolness of Hunter Biden, who Mike's dre…
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Robbie Bernstein joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate Robbie's summer porch tour, Florida being a peninsula, Robbie's plane exiting strategy, Mike and Robbie being short kings, eavesdropping on other people's phone conversations, people who enjoy golf, when Uber drivers have road rage, the Dear Abby complaining about a flirty doctor, …
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James Mattern joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate the results of the air horn poll, James being better than Mike because he lives on the Upper East Side, human trafficking, whether you can donate an appendix, James' jealousy of families, getting a concussion while moving, James being unsure of his ethnic background, being friends wit…
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JC Mendoza joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate the haters on Mike's Italian clips, JC's brand of Hispanic and how he filters out girls who might be gold diggers, Cubans that came to the US on planes vs boats, JC looking like Jesus, Mike and JC both experiencing life as a middle child, playing baseball, having divorced parents, what J…
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Kunal C. Arora joins Mike Vecchione and together they investigate jokes that they're currently trying to work out, the continuing debate of air horn vs no air horn, Kunal almost getting attacked by a monkey in India, taking his dad's ashes to India, growing up with conservative Indian parents and then moving to NYC, Mike's weekend wedding in Buffal…
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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 t…
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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 …
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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'…
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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. T…
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This week Felicia is joined by weaver, teacher, and designer: Kelly Casanova, from Melbourne Australia. Kelly runs an online weaving school called: Kelly Casanova Weaving Lessons and has been working tirelessly to create ongoing weaving instruction, initially with a rigid heddle loom and now with multi-shaft looms. Kelly has been a huge inspiration…
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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 Textiles and Science. Since 1985 she's lived in Los Angeles where she's still active in arts and education.…
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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 the SweetGeorgia YouTube channel because, as an avid weaver, she is a huge fan of their looms. Please join Felicia and Angela as they discuss all things weaving and the big challenges face…
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This week on the show, Felicia chats with Abbye Dahl: a Vancouver-based knitwear designer and professional photographer. Abbye is no stranger to SweetGeorgia Yarns as she created a collection of hat patterns using our yarns called: Cloche Knits. Abbye has also designed a follow-up collection called Cloche Knits 2. If you haven't seen the photos in …
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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 handspun! You have probably seen Spincycle Yarns featured in such designs like Andrea Mowry's The Shiftcowl an…
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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 shibori. A few years ago, Mariana worked at SweetGeorgia as one of the dyers in our dye team but now has be…
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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 Skeindeer Knits podcast and has published over 100 episodes! Join Felicia and Eli as they chat about colourwork knitting! "...me personally I think you can chang…
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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 his wife and two cats! Join Felicia and Benjamin as they discuss how to welcome more people into the fibre …
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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 supplies to inspire the community of weavers. Join Felicia and Sarah as they discuss the resurgence of weaving within the crafting community! "I... like the process of... making it but... on…
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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 way to share the things that they love about crafts and the fibre arts such as hand-dyed yarns, as well as hand-dyed and hand-carded spinning fibre. Katrina also teaches various spinning cl…
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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 dedicated to the concept of slow cloth and slow fashion. Coty and her co-founder Alessandra work to bring handspun, sustainably sourced yarn from Mongolia and Nepal to the hand knitting c…
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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 successful coaching practice for creative business owners and co-founded and currently runs Making Stories: an independent knitwear design publishing company. Join Felicia and Hanna Lisa as the…
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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 Master Your Craft: Strategies for Designing, Making, and Selling Artisan Work; a book about creative process in craft. She has woven hund…
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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 influence on her work and she is especially inspired by stranded colourwork in Norwegian knitting. She’s crea…
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