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2013.
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English
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"In this charming series of linked essays," the renowned knitter and author explores the meaning and importance of knitting in her life (Vogue Knitting).
In The Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parkes offers reflections and stories from a lifetime of knitting through twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love,...
In The Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parkes offers reflections and stories from a lifetime of knitting through twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love,...
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"Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her adventures around the world. Building on the success of The Yarn Whisperer, Parkes's rich personal essays invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, from a guide who quickly comes to feel like a trusted confidante. In Knitlandia, she takes readers along on 17 of her most...
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Join Parkes on a cross-country adventure as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, she meets the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle,...
5) Unraveling
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"Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too."-People
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch, shearing, spinning, dyeing wool, and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.
The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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The true-life misadventures of Perry, a slightly displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to "get his creativity back." Knitting saves her, and emboldens her to navitage the ins and outs of the modern dating scene.
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