This was my least favorite of the three. By this point, the material felt hackneyed. The first book was so funny and touching. I read the third after that and was less than charmed but it had good points. This one was a rehashing of the same concepts -people's negative feelings about knitting, bu...
The Yarn Harlot always brings a smile to the knotty-tired-of knitting with her sense of humour and goodwill. A yarn diva of the highest order - providing that it's a serving of home-made soup because it's off to knit night - and Stephanie Pearl-Mcphee is a true treasure. Down-to-earth, user and r...
While this one didn't have as much knitting content, I can admit she's covered that a lot and we luckily have her blog posts for that. It had it's literal laugh out loud moments for me (scared my family a time or two) and it's thought provoking and touching times as well. There was only one chapt...
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun as baseball and way cooler than the evil looped path of crochet. Every project, from a misshapen hat to the most magnificent sweater, holds a story. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, i...
At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Both a celebration of the craft and a sourcebook for practical information, "Knitting Rules!" is a collection of useful advice and emotional support for the avid knitter. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee unravels the mysteries of tangled yarn, confusing patterns, and stubbornly unfinished projects. Daring ...
(Megan says I freak her out, but I don’t care. As long as I’m keeping her alive and housed, I’ll look at her any way I want to.) Megan has grown up into a lot of things that I am not. Tall, for starters. Long limbed for another. Where I am short and compact, Megan is lean, long, and at this age l...
A swift is a tool used to replace your friends and family. Clever knitters will procure one the first time their mates or children refuse to hold the skein of yarn for them, thus reducing the number of yarn-related disputes in the family environment. Swifts also reduce knitter injury by eliminati...
UPSTAIRS IN MY HOUSE, in the very back of the linen closet, behind the sheets and towels, are several pieces of my old knitting. They are in the back, packed up tight where people (including me) are unlikely to see them. They are terrible — absolutely, viciously, breathtakingly terrible. Truly, t...
The last straw may have been when my husband, trying to put on a sweater he hadn’t worn for a while, encountered a sock-in-progress stuffed down its sleeve. Don’t look at me like that. The sock was originally perched atop a pile of other stuff in the sweater closet, but owing to a shortage of spa...
Cabled Grey died suddenly at home following a lengthy illness, surrounded by other knitting projects and a few knitters, on the 14th of November 2009. Cabled Grey was an ill-fitting sweater with raglan sleeves and largish cables, who began life as nine skeins of a pretty decent three-ply merino p...