Yarn Harlot
The secret life of a knitter

by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
$12.89 CDN
$12.95 US
240 pgs, softcover
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Category: knitting books

In the Author's Words.....
"Why have I had, over the course of decades, a love affair with knitting that consumes me so completely? Why would any sane person give up so much closet space and money to a craft that seems simple and silly?
The answer: Because knitting is more than it seems. Knitting is a complex and joyful act of creation in my everyday life.
Knitting is magic. Knitting is an act of creation and a simple transformation each and every time. Each knitted gift holds hours of my life.
So - why this book? Because there are fifty million knitters in the North America. I can't be the only one who feels this way.
Raise your needles (straight or circular) if you're with me."(pg xii, xiii)

From the publisher.....
Yarn Harlot
"Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn-she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn. Since the upsurge in knitting began in the early '90s, the number of women under 45 who knit has doubled. Knitting is no longer a hobby for just grandmothers—women and men of all ages are embracing this art. Describing its allure is best left to Stephanie who explains: "It is a well-known fact that knitting is a sparkling form of entertainment, as spiritual as yoga, as relaxing as a massage, and as funny as Erma Bombeck trapped in a PTA meeting."

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