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The yarn whisperer : my unexpected life in knitting / Clara Parkes.

by Parkes, Clara.

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STC Craft : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, an imprint of Abrams, 2013.

Knitters (Persons) -- Miscellanea.

Knitting -- Miscellanea.

9781617690020 (hc.)

1617690023 (hc.)

160 pages ; 21 cm.

"A Melanie Falick book."

On fakery- and confidence -- The thing about bobbles -- A good steek -- Choreography of stitches -- Nobody's fool -- How does your garden grow? -- Public/private -- Stitch traffic -- Outed -- Kitchenring -- Brioche -- Casting on -- La Belle France -- Channeling June Cleaver -- Pablo Casals, Grandpa, and me -- The dropped stitch -- Beating the bias -- The great whodunit -- Aunt Judy -- Coming undone -- Making Martha's sandwich -- Happily ever after.

Knitter and author Clara Parkes ponders the roles knitting plays in her life in 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love, and celebration, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters to create and explores the ways in which knitting can be looked at as a metaphor for so many other things. Put simply, "No matter how perfect any one sweater may be, it's only human to crave another. And another, and another."

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