OUR YARNS & HAND-DYEING PROCESS

Hand-Dyed Yarns

SweetGeorgia creates hand-dyed yarns for knitting, crochet, and weaving. We create vibrant, nuanced, and unapologetic colours. Our hand-dyed yarns are dyed in small batches by hand in our studio in Vancouver, Canada. Our yarn bases include luxurious blends of breed-specific wools, silk, mohair, and cashmere.

SweetGeorgia Yarn Bases

BFL+Silk Fine

This toothy and wooly 3-ply yarn is ideal for knitting stranded colourwork or weaving scarves or shawls.

370 yd (338 m) per 3.5 oz (100 g) skein; 75% bluefaced leicester wool, 25% silk

weaving sett (epi): 10 to 12 for plain weave, 12 to 15 for twill

CashLuxe Fine

Indulge in this beautifully soft fingering weight yarn with 20% cashmere. It’s perfect for knitting shawls.

420 yd (384 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 70% sw merino, 20% cashmere, 10% nylon

weaving sett (epi): 10 to 12 for plain weave, 12 to 15 for twill

CashLuxe Spark

Add a touch of sparkle to our already luxurious cashmere-blend fingering weight yarn. Great for a hint of bling.

420 yd (384 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 80% superwash merino, 10% cashmere, 10% sparkling stellina

weaving sett (epi): 10 to 12 for plain weave, 12 to 15 for twill

CashSilk Lace

Delicate, soft, and silky, this combination of cashmere and silk knits lace shawls and can be woven as weft.

400 yd (365 m) per 1.75 oz (50 g) skein; 45% cashmere, 55% cultivated silk

weaving: works beautifully as weft

Flaxen Silk Fine

Linen and silk in a fine weight that knits into summertime tees and shawls or weaves up into scarves or stoles.

480 yd (439 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 65% silk, 35% linen

weaving sett (epi): 12 for plain weave, 15 for twill

Merino Silk Lace

One skein has incredible yardage and can knit up into very large lace shawls. This also works beautifully like 18/2 wool/silk in weaving projects.

765 yd (700 m) per 3.5 oz (100 g) skein; 50% fine merino, 50% silk

weaving sett (epi): 20 for plain weave, 24 for twill

Mohair Silk Sock 

If you need a gorgeous, hand-dyed, silky and strong sock yarn, this is it. This yarn dyes amazingly with rich depth.

437 yd (400 m) per 3.5 oz (100 g) skein; 50% superwash merino, 15% silk, 15% mohair, 20% nylon

weaving sett (epi): 12 for plain weave, 15 for twill

SeaSilk Lace

Slinky, supple, and ever so soft. This wool-free lace yarn is a favourite of knitters in warmer climates.

494 yd (452 m) per 3.5 oz (100 g) skein; 65% silk, 35% seacell

weaving sett (epi): 15 to 18 for plain weave, 18 to 20 for twill

Silk Mist 

This yarn is like finding jewels behind puffs of cotton candy. There’s a shimmer to the core of the yarn and a marvelous haze of fine kid mohair.

325 yd (297 m) per 0.88 oz (25 g) skein; 60% fine kid mohair, 40% cultivated silk

weaving: works beautifully as weft

Superwash DK

One of our most popular yarns, this yarn knits into soft and squishy sweaters and accessories.

256 yd (234 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 100% superwash merino

Superwash Worsted 

Our workhorse knitting yarn, choose this for quick knitted sweaters, blankets, accessories, and basically anything.

200 yd (182 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 100% superwash merino

Tough Love Sock

Our best-selling yarn ever, this yarn makes everything from knitted socks to shawls to sweaters and handwoven scarves. 

425 yd (388 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon

weaving sett (epi): 10 to 12 for plain weave, 12 to 15 for twill

gradient yarns

Hand-Dyed Sock Blanks

Gradients are ever-so-fun in our line of SweetGeorgia Sock Blanks. These machine-knit stockinette stitch tubes allow the hues to flow from one shade to another seamlessly throughout your project. No ends to weave in and no yarn to wind means a no-fuss, ready-to-go project for the gradient-loving maker.

Enjoy the fun of unraveling these hand-dyed gradient sock blanks and recreating them into projects for knitting, crochet or weaving. 

425 yd (388 m) per 4 oz (115 g) skein; 80% superwash merino, 20% nylon

weaving sett (epi): 10 to 12 for plain weave, 12 to 15 for twill

mini-skein yarn sets

Party of Five

For nearly a decade, these mini-skein sets have been one of our most popular offerings. Each set of five colourful mini-skeins is a curated palette of on-trend hues, perfect for use in a variety of knit, crochet and woven projects. Great for colourwork, to feature a gradient, or for a fun splash of colour.

Choose from Superwash DK yarn or Tough Love Sock fingering-weight yarn options.

Yarn Sourcing

We are committed to sourcing our yarn and fibre bases from suppliers who prioritize fair labour practices and sustainable materials, ensuring that our products reflect our deeply held values of social responsibility and environmental stewardship.

Beautiful things take time to make

From start to finish, our hand-dyed yarns can take several days to produce

Every one of our yarns and fibres is hand-dyed at our dye studio in Vancouver, Canada. We aim to dye our orders in a first-come, first-served basis. So once we receive your order, it is entered into our dye queue. Our production manager reviews all the yarns and colours across all the orders every day to see which items from different orders can be dyed together efficiently. 

the dyeing process

Yarns are pre-washed and soaked to remove excess dust or oils from the spinning process and make the fibres more open to receiving dye. Our skilled hand-dyers then apply dye by either hand-painting the skeins on a table or by dip-dyeing them in a large pot to produce a semi-solid colourway. Skeins that are mottled or glazed in appearance have multiple colours that are dyed in succession, like layers, each time allowing for all the dye to be absorbed into the yarn. Each layer can take up to an hour or more to process, adding to the dyeing time. 

In dyeing, we have a few fundamental principles that we focus on — dye as reliably and consistently as possible, from dye lot to dye lot and from dyer to dyer. We want to provide hand-dyed yarns that makers can trust each and every time they choose our yarns.

the finishing process

Once the yarns are dyed and the colours are set, we cool the skeins to prevent felting and then rinse them to remove any excess unattached dye. Extra water and moisture is removed from the skeins and then they are hung up to dry. Depending on the humidity and temperature, this drying time can be anywhere from one to three days! 

Finally, the dry yarns are twisted, labeled with dye lots, and packaged together. Each step of the process is done by hand, even tying the yarn hang tags and wrapping the labels!