Epic Lessons That I Have Learned // Episode 100 // Taking Back Friday // a fibre arts vlog

[@adamakaru2683]

Young lady I love your practicality in your approach and works. Thank you and just to let you ken ow I am waiting impatient for my new Loom (Ashford folding table #24-4Shaft) to start weaving and never again leave the room heheheheheh just kidding WOW I can't wait and of course to hear more information & how too from you cheers and have a great week.

[@nwele]

Felicia, it is such a gorgeous cloth! Congratulations!! My epic cloth project was a queen size Tunisian blanket made with Brooklyn Tweed shelter. I have always wanted a huge blanket for my bed in Tunisian crochet. It took me 10 months as I did it by panels of three colors. There were times when I got discouraged then run out of yarn, got more discouraged. I also had doubts about my color choices , I did not plan a color scheme..I just chose colors according to how I felt at that moment...Then once, I washed each individual panel, some were larger than others..However, I finished it, assembled it and I have been using it every day! I love it! It is imperfect and there are colors I could have placed differently...however it is warm, beautiful and a true artisan work! Two lessons I learned in the process: every little bit of time invested in the cloth helped..even 5, 10 minutes. The second is to protect my hands, on days where I spent 2-3 hours working on the blanket, my right hand ended up hurting more. I don't think I will make another Tunisian blanket anytime soon, so I will treasure this blanket even more! Bonus lesson: some things take a very long time and it is worth the wait!

[@hollaceannstruve9805]

Thank you Felicia for all of your thoughtful, inspiring ideas. I have learned over my lifetime, that I manifest exactly what I spend time thinking about... So now I try to only think about KNOWING that I have plenty of time, money, good health and love in my life. Letting go of the worrying and fear has been very freeing for me.

[@sweetgeorgia]

Love this message... I've been thinking all weekend about your idea and just focusing on believing that we do have many many good things right now :) thank you for sharing!

[@cm4107]

Maybe if you would have put the handle on the counter instead of back on the fridge.. Just a thought. I've had to train myself that way, if I don't have time to fix something, I don't put it back together.. I put the broken piece next to where it goes, so I remember it needs to be fixed

[@clairecrochets7672]

Thank you so much for this video. Listening to you talk about embracing the time spent to make something well, it gave me fresh perspective and lifted me out of the sheer panic caused by the Covid-19. Glad the fridge injury wasn't too serious!

[@stephenkropf2087]

I always love listening and watching your videos...thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and perspectives

[@wendym9021]

I love your epic cloth! I like how the colors gradually change. I also love your sailing sweater. I’m definitely going to buy that pattern and knit it.

[@wendym9021]

Also- what size needle did you use for your sailing sweater?

[@judimuscroft5018]

So enjoy theses podcasts! Love the Sailing sweater!

[@heatherellam4137]

I love seeing your weaving projects and I hope you will share more! I'm an avid weaver and would love to see more content using hand dyed yarns

[@sweetgeorgia]

Thank you Heather! That’s perfect because I’m mostly weaving hand dyed yarns these days 😍

[@aroundtheworldfibers]

The cloth is really gorgeous. Love the colors. I would love to try weaving one day. Oh and beautiful sweater too.

[@sweetgeorgia]

Thank you so much! I love it too

[@cbss1487]

I REALLY like the way you made the Sailing Sweater but I noticed yours looks a little different that the photos shown on Ravelry. Can you talk about the modifications you made?

[@sweetgeorgia]

Oh thank you! I actually didn’t make any modifications except that I didn’t pick up around the sleeves to add cuffs. That’s the only thing that is different 😊

[@mariek0312]

Hand woven cloth is not finished when it comes off the loom. It need to be washed so that any sizing or excess dye is removed and washing exposes the true nature of the cloth.