Free-Range Knitter - The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Casa editrice: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC

Sinossi

The author of Yarn Harlot returns with more hilarious personal stories about all the ups and downs of being a knitter. 
 
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) returns to pen another hilarious, insightful, and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite topics: knitting, knitters, and what happens when you get those two things anywhere near ordinary people. Free-Range Knitters shares stories of knitting horrors and triumphs and knitting successes and defeats, but, mostly, it shares stories about the human condition that ring true for everyone—especially if you have to have a rather large amount of yarn in your house. 
 
Praise for Yarn Harlot 
 
“Stephanie Pearl-McPhee turns both typical and unique knitting experiences into very funny and articulate prose.” —Meg Swansen, Schoolhouse Press 
 
“I laughed until my stitches fell helplessly from my needles!” —Lucy Neatby, author of Cool Socks Warm Feet 
 
“A sort of David Sedaris-like take on knitting—laugh-out-loud funny most of the time and poignantly reflective when it’s not cracking you up.” —Library Journal

Disponibile da: 06/04/2010.

Lunghezza di stampa: 242 pagine.

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