Join me this Friday for a monthly livestream chat about craft and colour at our July Taking Back Friday LIVE! We’ll be talking about the latest news from our SweetGeorgia shop, share some of what’s coming soon to the School of SweetGeorgia, plus talk about the projects I’m currently working on.
We’ll be live Friday, July 14th at 10:00 am PDT (1:00 pm EDT). Grab your current knitting or crochet project and join me in the YouTube live chat online.
Thank you so much for joining me at this month’s online live chat! I’ll be traveling with family in August so there will be no Taking Back Friday livestream next month. (Update: Join me online for a TBF Live catch up on August 18th at 10am PDT!) Instead, I’d love to hear from you… what projects would you suggest to bring along on a road trip? Do you have a favourite portable project to take with you when you travel? Let me know in the comments!
2023 MKAL Prize Pack Giveaway
Enter to win a 2023 Mystery Knit-Along prize pack plus subscribe to receive the latest news from SweetGeorgia. One winner will receive the Playin’ My Song MKAL pattern by Tabetha Hedrick + one hand-dyed MKAL yarn set from SweetGeorgia.
Contest closes Tuesday, July 17 at 9:00 am PDT. The winner will be contacted to select their yarn set choice.
UPDATE: The contest is now closed. Thank you everyone for your entries and congratulations to Joyce H.!
IN THIS EPISODE
- what I’m wearing in today’s livestream: I’m wearing the Summer in Provence design by Tabetha Hedrick, knit in our Pink Flamingo limited-edition sock blank colourway.
- what I’m talking about in today’s livestream: Here are quick links to items mentioned during the livestream…
- My Stoodley Jumper, design by Nic Corrigan, was machine knit on the Singer SK360, knit in our BFL+Silk Fine yarn in Honey Gold, Birch, and Bright Penny and Tempest, both part of our Enigma Collection coming out next month.
- Pink Flamingo sock blank gradient is available only for the month of July.
- Playin’ My Song Mystery Knit-Along with the MKAL shawl pattern by Tabetha Hedrick and six custom MKAL yarn sets. The first clue will come out on August 15th.
- Summer Seconds Sale at the SweetGeorgia Studio on July 29th from 9am to 1pm. We’d love for you to come visit us! (This sale is unfortunately only available in person.)
- New Enigma Collection colourways will be coming out next month, in August. Stay tuned!
- Tour de Fleece conversation has been taking place in the SweetGeorgia Discord server as well as in the School of SweetGeorgia Community Forums.
- New spinning fibre colourways. Handspun shown in BFL+Silk: Salted Caramel 3-ply fractal, Trail Runner 3-ply fractal, Sugarplum 2-ply and Corriedale Beachside Brunch 3-ply fractal. I have been spinning singles on my Saxony wheel and then used my Ashford e-Spinner 3 for the plying.
- Online spinning courses at the School of SweetGeorgia mentioned are: Spinning Textured Yarns taught by Debbie Held, Spinning Up a Level taught by Katrina Stewart, and Spin-In Clinic taught by Kim McKenna. If you’re interested in spinning with an e-Spinner, you can also check out Debbie’s Spinning with e-Spinners course and my SOS article on Choosing an e-Spinner.
- We’ll be chatting with Debbie Held this fall at the School about weaving with your handspun. You can read more about the make-alongs and School community events we’ve got planned here.
- How to test abrasion resistance to see if your yarn will stand up to abrasion from the reed and heddles when weaving.
