At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Narrated by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Overview

The Yarn Harlot takes time away from her knitting to offer observations, meditations, reflections, and rants to soothe and delight the knitter's unraveled soul.



Like golfing, fishing, and gardening, knitting is an obsession. It's an activity fraught with guilt, frustration, over-optimism, sly deception, and compulsion, along with passionate moments of creative enlightenment. Not to mention heaps of yarn you really think you'll knit someday.



Stephanie Pearl-McPhee totally understands. In this hilarious collection of tangled reflections, she offers ample reassurance for anyone who has ever wondered, "Am I alone in my mania?" Casting off with some of her favorite quotations, she muses on why it's impossible to knit too much, how many calories knitting burns (about ninety an hour, not counting the extra for retrieving your ball of yarn from under the couch), and when it's okay to stalk a man in the grocery store (not because he's good-looking, but because he's wearing an Aran sweater you want to know how to knit).



The first step toward recovery is getting help-and having a good laugh at your compulsion. At Knit's End is a wicked and wickedly funny fix for any knitter.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

Obsessive knitter Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, whose popular knitting blog gets 20,000 hits per day, offers her fellow knitters humorous knitting anecdotes, bits of homespun (no pun intended!) wisdom, helpful tips and little "mantras" to help keep their sanity when realizing an entire sleeve of a sweater has come out wrong and has to be redone. Even nonknitters can appreciate much of her humor-for example, her technique for "darning" socks that have holes in them, "which consists of loudly exclaiming 'DARN!' and a few other choice expletives before dropping them in the garbage." Pearl-McPhee has a warm, engaging voice brimming with humor and often punctuated by a self-deprecating chuckle. This audiobook of her folksy ruminations would make the perfect gift for anyone who loves to knit. The print version of this title won the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award in humor. A Storey Publishing paperback. (July)

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From the Publisher

Craft books unite knitters of all skill levels”
-Sunday Advertiser, Lafayette, LA

Baltimore Sun

"It's candy for knitters."—Baltimore Sun

Booklist

"A treasure of thoughts with which every knitter can identify."—Booklist

DEC 07/JAN 08 - AudioFile

Who knew that the life story of a knitting junkie could be pieced together through a combination of apt literary quotes and her own personal confessions? Stephanie Pearl-McPhee will have listeners in stitches as she tells tales of obsessive knitting and offers commentary on knitting patterns and yarn choices ordinary and exotic. She is completely open about her many excesses—knitting at the most implausible moments, spending a small fortune on gorgeous wools, and wasting hours on a project only to have to begin again. Pearl-McPhee proves to be quite the entertainer as she turns her stories into an amusing yarn. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169981735
Publisher:	HighBridge Company
Publication date:	06/04/2007
Edition description:	Unabridged

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