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Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
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Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter

By Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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One woman shares hilarious personal stories of her obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun with knitting.

An obsessed knitter who can’t seem to put the needles down, author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee reveals the tangled and sometimes maniacal path of her knitting triumphs and disasters in Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter.

Sharing both humorous and poignant tales of knitting escapades, such as fleeing from a yarn-thieving squirrel, dismantling a car to find a vital needle, and what it feels like to wrap a newborn baby in the work of your own hands. Yarn Harlot exposes the extreme sport of knitting, and adventure that can be fulfilling, exasperating, and wickedly funny.

From the moment Stephanie’s family discovers that she has taken to storing yarn in the piano to her attempts to foist knitted socks on a friend with a wool “allergy,” Yarn Harlot looks at knitting with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed.

“Stephanie Pearl-McPhee turns both typical and unique knitting experiences into very funny and articulate prose.” —Meg Swansen, Schoolhouse Press

“An intimate view of the passionate knitter’s psyche: a transport of hilarity for knitters and the knitted-for; 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
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
Release dateSep 1, 2005
ISBN9780740789014
Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot, entertains knitters with her unique humor via her popular blog (www.yarnharlot.com) and her best-selling books, Knitting Rules!, At Knit's End, and Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off.

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  • 5/5
    This is a wonderful book. Stephanie is hilarious at times.
  • 4/5
    Humorous essays about being a knitter.
  • 5/5
    So far, I'm loving it. This isn't new - I really enjoy Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous writing. Surely, this is not just because I knit?
  • 5/5
    Want to read more Harlot!
  • 4/5
    A very fun book to read. A collection of essays or blog posts. Most made me laugh. A couple made me cry.I am a new knitter and learning to appreciate some of the things she talks about. Can't wait to read more.
  • 1/5
    I have to say that Pear-McPhee thinks rather a lot of herself, and, truth to tell, overestimates her own capacity to interest others with her stories of knitting. One book is interesting; two books are tedious.
  • 5/5
    Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is funny and interesting. She equates knitting to real life in a way that I never would have considered, and keeps the pages moving as fast as a fiction novel - even without a decisive plot to tie the whole book together. It is a series of short stories, where the only thread (pun intended) is knitting. I loved it from start to finish and can't wait to read more of her work.
  • 5/5
    A great book. Stephanie aka Yarn Harlot is just an amazing and funny writer. I love her books and could read them a million times each and I would still laugh out loud each time.