Secret Stash Club Reveal: Cold Snap

It’s been a whirlwind of a year filled with colour, yarn, and fibre adventures through our Secret Stash Club. We’re excited to finally share with you our final Club colourway for 2025—our wish for a blanket of snow this winter: Cold Snap! These hand-dyed hues are designed to evoke the tart, sharp, and dark hues of cranberry red, paired with deep icicle navy and blue against a crisp white background. We hope this special colourway inspires cozy projects and brings a touch of winter magic to your creations!

Cold Snap on SweetGeorgia CashSilk Solo
Cold Snap on SweetGeorgia Targhee

DECEMBER’S COLOURWAY INSPIRATION

This month’s colourway, Cold Snap, is my little prayer for snow this winter. As I drove to the studio this morning, I can see the mountains on the North Shore are still brown except for a little patch of white.

My childhood was spent in Toronto where we saw snow every winter, sometimes as early as October. Snow angels, making bricks of snow, and of course rolling up snowmen were part of it all. Here on the west coast, we don’t get much snow and I totally miss it! I’m hoping we get a cold snap and then a couple days of snow in the city… for old times’ sake.

Hues of cranberry red, and deep icicle navy and blue against a snowy white background

PROJECT IDEAS

For the Yarn

This month’s colourway is dyed on our exclusive SweetGeorgia CashSilk Solo yarn, a soft single-ply yarn that would be suitable for some kinds of projects, but not all. This yarn works up beautifully in shawls, scarves, and delicate items, but it would not stand up well as socks. For this month’s sample knitting, we chose the Winter Dawn shawl pattern by Tabetha Hedrick. Sample knit by Deborah Dar Woon, more details are coming soon about this fabulous sample to our project library.

Winter Dawn pattern showcasing the Cold Snap December Club colourway

We’ve been experimenting with crochet this year and found that Tunisian crochet causes colour pooling in a very different way than traditional crochet. It might be a great experiment here with this colour. Or stripe this yarn with another solid colour yarn to create a larger project.

For the Fibre

Targhee is a bouncy, poofy fibre and when you spin it, the yarn can bloom and puff up beautifully! I’d love to see this in a hat or mitts because it’s so insulating and warm.

A spongey wool that makes wonderfully soft and lofty handspun yarns

In terms of colour management, try blending it with undyed wool to see if you can create a “raindrop” yarn as taught by Kim McKenna in our School of SweetGeorgia. Or spin a fine single ply and then chain-ply your singles into a 3-ply yarn with sharp, clear dots of colour.

handspun singles — December Cold Snap fibre
Greta Cornejo’s handspun Cold Snap singles. Spun 6:1 with a short forward draft from the full top, rewound to bobbins for plying

JOIN THE CLUB CONVERSATION

One of the fundamental beliefs we have at SweetGeorgia is that the colours we surround ourselves with can transform our experience of life. Whether you knit, crochet, weave, or something else, join us over at our SweetGeorgia Community. We’d love to hear your thoughts on our Cold Snap yarn and fibre, as well as see what you make with it.

Thank you for being part of our creative Secret Stash Club journey this year!

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