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We love exploring spinning fibre and celebrate it each year with our Fibre Prep February Make-Along. This year, we highlighted bast fibres, inspired by lessons from the Spinning Bast Fibres: Tow Top & Bast Blends course at the School of SweetGeorgia. Each member of the SweetGeorgia team chose a bast fibre (and some chose to sample them all), and prepared multiple wool and bast blends. In this Taking Back Friday video, Felicia shares her explorations with ramie while highlighting the work from the SweetGeorgia Team! Getting to Know Ramie Ramie is a bast fibre taken from the inner bark of a plant stalk, placing it alongside flax, hemp, and jute. It belongs to the nettle family and is sometimes called vegetable silk because of its natural shine. Ramie is strong, absorbent, breathable, and quick drying. These qualities give it a cool, crisp feel, much like linen. It also grows quickly and can be harvested multiple times each year, which makes it an appealing fibre to explore from...

Who doesn’t love a set of handwoven napkins? They catch the eye at dinner gatherings, feel special for everyday use, and are perfect for a relaxed picnic in the park. Kathryn Steely designed these stunning Picnic Plaid Napkins, and we are so excited to share them with everyone. Picnic Plaid Napkins woven in Gist 8/2 Beam Picnic Plaid Napkins This pattern creates four beautiful and generously-sized napkins, woven in a simple straight draw twill with a delicate fringe. The asymmetrical plaid brings each napkin to life with colour and interest, drawing you into the diagonal twill lines with subtle optical colour mixing throughout. Woven in Gist 8/2 Beam , these unmercerized organic cotton napkins are soft and amazingly absorbent. They feel so good in your hands, you may start dreaming about a matching scarf. Gist 8/2 Beam offers a beautiful range of vibrant colours, making it an easy and inspiring choice for your next weaving project. The Picnic Plaid Napkins are woven i...

Every time you receive an order from SweetGeorgia , Chun Hoi Chan (Hoi) is responsible for the shipping (and often the dyeing) of your order. He is our Precision Dyer & Studio Assistant. Hoi is incredibly friendly and wonderful, which is why we wanted to spotlight him this month so our community can know him a bit better.  He has also modelled some of the samples in the studio, like this O’Deery Me pullover . Needle Felting Artist Hoi is an artist in his own right with his amazing drawings! Then in 2023, he decided to try needle felting at one of our SweetGeorgia Knit at Noon in-person crafternoons, and hasn’t stopped. Very quickly, he began making incredible felted figures that occasionally decorate the front of the studio for everyone’s enjoyment. The first and most ambitious felted figure he planned and created was a resemblance to his very handsome cat named Coffee. From dyeing the wool to felting the piece, it took many months of work to achieve a result that everyo...

It’s that time again. Every year, we have our Mystery Bag Sale , and it is on now from February 20th to March 20th, 2026, or while supplies last. It is one of our most popular sales of the year. While it doesn’t really need promoting, we do sometimes hear from people wondering what they can do with yarn or fibre when they don’t know what they are getting. We thought it would be fun to share just a few of the ways you can use these Mystery Bags. Just a small peek at some of the yarns you may find in our Mystery Bag Sale . Why Do We Do These Mystery Bags? First of all, it helps to explain why these Mystery Bags exist and what you can expect to find inside them. Seconds If you have shopped with us before, you know we only sell quality products and colourways that we can reproduce consistently. After we hand-dye a batch of yarn or fibre, we inspect it carefully. If it doesn’t meet our standards, we categorize it as a Second. Many of these yarns and fibres are still beautiful, so we ...