archive | March 2008

Every shade of white

Monday, March 31st, 2008

It’s breathlessly beautiful up here at Whistler Blackcomb. I’m almost tempted to not return to real life. Almost.

Getting to the Symphony Amphitheatre
Getting to the Symphony Amphitheatre

It’s pretty white up here though and sometimes all you see is miles and miles of white marked with tiny little coloured flags. But it’s fascinating to me… you think that all you see is white and nothingness, but really you see all the subtlety of light and shadow and every shade of white you can imagine. Cool white. Warm white. White in the morning light. White in overcast light. White in blindingly beautiful bluebird skies. I fully expect and look forward to being visually assaulted when I return to my yarns and dyepots next week.

Return to [sweetgeorgia] Mountain

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Soon soon soon. We’ll be re-opening SweetGeorgia Yarns online in the next few weeks after I return from Whistler. My office is starting to look a lot like it once did… piled high with brightly coloured yarns and fibres… tags hanging delicately off the end of each skein. I’m excited to show you what I’ve been working on, but here’s a teeny tiny sample…

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Brand new shiny yarn tags
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Weld and indigo on silk… and it looks like springtime
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Mordanted silk and bamboo in my fridge

Yep, that last photo is my fridge full of pre-mordanted yarn. All I need to do now is add some colour… soon soon soon.

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Driven by an obsessive, passionate and often tumultuous relationship with colour, Felicia Lo is the owner of SweetGeorgia Yarns, an artisan yarn company that makes exquisite and luxurious hand-dyed yarns for knitting and fibres for spinning. She writes about all things knitting, spinning, dyeing, and weaving here at sweetgeorgia.

 

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