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Handwoven Shawl Pattern. Weave a 15-hue colour gamp using sock yarn in plain weave. Enjoy the interactions of colour between these fifteen hues of a spectrum and weave your own colour gamp shawl. Work with gradient mini-skein sets or limit your colour selections to just analogous colours. The options are infinite!
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Handwoven Shawl Pattern. Wrap yourself in a warm, toasty hug of bluefaced leicester wool and silk. This elegant and substantial handwoven shawl hangs beautifully around the shoulders with softness and drape. The colours blend to produce an almost iridescent effect.
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Plain weave and twill sampler on a 4-shaft loom. Explore the incredible variety of textures, designs, and colour patterns that are possible with just four shafts and four colours! Here we use a DK weight yarn to play with plain weave, simple twills, and basketweave.
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A reed substitution chart is a great way to extend your reeds to be used at a wide range of setts.
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Learn to knit the “little bee” pattern for the Beekeeper Cardigan
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // September 26, 2019"
Weave a beautifully soft and simple scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a hand-dyed or handpainted sock yarn for the warp and create your cloth with a variety of colours in the weft to enjoy the colour interactions.
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Weave a beautifully elegant and silky scarf that can be customized through colour. Choose a range of hand-dyed semi-solid sock yarns for the warp and bring them all together with a single hand-dyed lace yarn.
Continue reading "Colour Field Scarf"There are two different ways to add a “reaction” or “emoji” to a post or thread in the discussion forums. One way is to react to the entire post: At the bottom right-hand corner of each post, there is a heart icon. Rollover the heart icon to reveal the different reactions that you can give […]
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Continue reading "20% off a Craft Industry Alliance Membership"Thank you so much for your interest in giving the gift of a School of SweetGeorgia membership! Here’s how to get started: Visit the Shop section of the site here https://www.schoolofsweetgeorgia.com/shop/ to see the available membership options. Select the membership option you want to send as a gift (either Monthly, Quarterly, or Annual) and click […]
Continue reading "How do I give a Membership as a gift?"Absolutely. Sometimes, I like to be more carefree with my dyeing sessions as well! The information that I share in this course is about giving you a foundation to understand how colour is created with acid dyes and how you can manipulate the variables to produce the effect you want. Once you know these fundamentals, […]
Continue reading "I don’t care to be so precise with my dyeing. Is this for me?"You’ll need some acid dyes (available from ProChemical & Dye or Dharma Trading Co.), undyed protein-based (like wool or silk) knitting yarns or spinning fibres, and some heating equipment (pots, pans, portable burner or something similar). We have the complete list of tools and supplies available for download to students.
Continue reading "What kind of supplies or equipment will I need to take the dyeing classes?"We would never want you to be unhappy! The best way to see if our School is a good fit for you is to first watch the videos that we have made available through our Free membership option. We have our Colour Play, Epic Cloth, and Designer Process workshops available for free to view. This […]
Continue reading "What if I am unhappy with the School?"Forever! As long as the School of SweetGeorgia is in operation and as long as you have an active membership subscription, our content will be available to you. After enrolling, you have unlimited access to our course library for as long as you like — across any and all devices you own.
Continue reading "How long do I have access to the course?"Our entire course library is available as soon as you sign up. All our course and workshop content is completely self-paced – you decide when you start and when you finish. Work at your own pace, whenever and wherever you have time.
Continue reading "Do the courses have a start or end date?"The School of SweetGeorgia offers our All-Access membership plan on a Monthly or Annual basis. If you sign up for a Monthly plan, you’ll be billed once a month on the date that you originally signed up. For the Annual plan, you’ll be billed once a year on the date you originally signed up. You […]
Continue reading "What are the Membership options?"The School of SweetGeorgia All-Access membership is a month-to-month or annual subscription that begins on the date you sign up. The All-Access membership allows members to access and watch all of our education content. More tutorials, workshops, and courses are added on a regular basis. Your membership can be paused or cancelled online at anytime.
Continue reading "What is the School of SweetGeorgia?"To access your member account area, simply click on the avatar icon in the top right-hand corner of the site. Profile Here you can change your Profile Photo for the main website and add a Cover Image if you like. You can also edit your profile to include your birthdate, country, city, and the crafts […]
Continue reading "How do I manage my membership?"To cancel your School of SweetGeorgia membership subscription, please log into your account at https://www.schoolofsweetgeorgia.com/login/ on a computer and follow the steps below. If you are subscribed using a credit card: Go to your “Membership” page by rolling over the avatar icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen. Click “Subscriptions” to see all […]
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This content is only available to Monthly and Annual Members of the School of SweetGeorgia or students who purchased “Dyeing Intentional Colour” or “Dyeing Complex Colour”.
Continue reading "Live Office Hours // August 22, 2019"
https://vimeo.com/356512360 We wanted to welcome you guys officially welcome you guys to the Carolina Waves mystery knit along. We just started this week and people had been getting their "Clue Ones" and casting on and all of this kind of stuff and I wanted to connect with you guys to get you guys i We […]
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // July 25, 2019"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // June 27, 2019"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // May 30 2019"
In this tutorial, we warp and begin weaving on a circular frame.
Continue reading "Weaving Circles // warping and weaving on a circular frame loom"
Using a yarn swift and ball winder to convert a skein of yarn into a ball (cake) of yarn.
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We talked about dyeing full skeins from samples, switching dye brands, dyeing very pale pastels, re-skeining yarns for photography, and developing style and aesthetics when it comes to photographing your hand-dyed yarns
Continue reading "Live Office Hours // April 24, 2019"
Here are a few of the tools that I mention in the Essential Weaving workshop
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Here are some of the most common weaving terms that will help you understand the process.
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In this session, we talk about sett for weaving as well as warp and weft yardage calculations
Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // March 13, 2019"
Here are a few links to various suppliers that manufacture looms and tools for weaving
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Let’s talk about knitting two-colour brioche in the round!
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Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // February 15, 2019"
In this session, we talk about trouble with dye pots not exhausting, techniques for dyeing speckles, and ways that we might test dye sample yarns.
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Digital, physical, and mental organization for crafters
Continue reading "Craft Without Chaos"
Here are a few yarn suppliers, books, and knitwear designers to explore for colourwork knitting
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Join us in a 9-month challenge to making your own slow cloth project
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During this Crafternoon, we discuss our new slow cloth challenge: Epic Cloth and work through the entire downloadable workbook.
Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // January 11, 2019"
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Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // December 14, 2018"
Answering your questions about composition for photography, lighting, camera care, and also how to sew and finish handwoven fabric.
Continue reading "Live Office Hours // November 2018"
In this Crafternoon session, we talked about seasonal colour, finding and modifying light sources for photograph, and I did a little weaving on my big mohair blanket project!
Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // November 16, 2018"
Talking about dyeing colour triangles, fluorescent dyes, dye lot numbers, and also thoughts about content for next year.
Continue reading "Live Office Hours // October 2018"
https://vimeo.com/294874956 In this tiny tutorial, I demonstrate winding a 3-yard warp on a warping board to use in a handwoven blanket. If you have any questions about winding a warp on a warping board, feel free to ask here in the forums » In this tiny tutorial, I demonstrate winding a 3-yard warp on a […]
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During this Crafternoon, I wound a couple balls of mohair yarn and wound a 3-yard warp for a blanket on a warping board.
Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // October 12, 2018"
This the lecture portion of the dyeing workshop that I hosted at the SweetGeorgia Studios for Knit City 2018 on October 1, 2018.
Continue reading "Creating Complex Colourways // October 1, 2018 at Knit City 2018"
In this tiny tutorial, I demonstrate how to use the mosaic knitting technique. It’s a colourful technique that is likely easier than you think!
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Using a spin cycle of a washing machine to remove excess water, finding the most efficient way to wind mini-skeins, and dyeing very light colours on spinning fibre.
Continue reading "Live Office Hours // September 2018"
In this tiny tutorial, I demonstrate how I twist a skein of yarn from a loose hank into a twisted skein format.
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During this Crafternoon, we did a spindle spinning demonstration showing drafting, plying, and how to wind onto the spindle shaft. We also started spinning a handpainted colourway using the fractal spinning colour technique.
Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // September 14, 2018"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // August 2018"
Here are a few links to various suppliers that are mentioned in the Spinning From Scratch course
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Here are a few suppliers in the US, Canada, and UK that provide beautiful dyed spinning fibres to get you started.
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Here are some suppliers and sources of undyed yarns and spinning fibres
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These are a few of my favourite reference books over the years, and a great place to start building a dyer’s library!
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Measuring the angle of twist in your yarn is a wonderful way to ensure consistency in your handspun yarns. Download our twist gauge here to measure the twist in your singles and plied yarns.
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A couple downloadable tools to measure your “wraps per inch (WPI)” while spinning and plying your handspun yarns.
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Learn how to “spin from the fold” with a long draw as a way to manage short, slippery, and downy spinning fibre blends.
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Continue reading "Crafternoon Live // July 20 2018"
In our dyeing courses, we use a combination of WashFast Acid and Lanaset dyes which can be purchased from the suppliers listed below.
Continue reading "Dyes for Wool, Silk, & Protein Fibres"
Here are the sources for some of the studio dyeing equipment that we use for our dyeing courses
Continue reading "Dye Studio Equipment & Tools"
Use our members-only coupon code to get a discount off your yarns and spinning fibres at SweetGeorgia Yarns
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Discover how to knit a ruffle by rapidly increasing the number of stitches on the needle using a double increase.
Continue reading "KYOK Increase (k1, yo, k1 into the same stitch)"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // April 2018"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // February 2018"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // January 2018"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // November 2017"
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Continue reading "Live Office Hours // October 2017"
