Title: Knitting Yarns Pdf Writers on Knitting
"In this lovely anthology, Sue Grafton, Barbara Kingsolver, and other authors go public with their passion for knitting." —People (four stars)"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters…These essays will break your heart. They will have you laughing out loud." —Ann Hood, from the introductionWhy does knitting occupy a place in the hearts of so many writers? What’s so magical and transformative about yarn and needles? How does knitting help us get through life-changing events and inspire joy? In Knitting Yarns, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Barbara Kingsolver describes sheering a sheep for yarn. Elizabeth Berg writes about her frustration at failing to knit. Ann Patchett traces her life through her knitting, writing about the scarf that knits together the women she’s loved and lost. Knitting a Christmas gift for his blind aunt helped Andre Dubus III knit an understanding with his girlfriend. Kaylie Jones finds the woman who used knitting to help raise her in France and heals old wounds. Sue Grafton writes about her passion for knitting. Also included are five original knitting patterns created by Helen Bingham.Poignant, funny, and moving, Knitting Yarns is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.
Wanted to Like This Reading a book about knitting should be entertaining, and I wanted to like this book. I did find it somehow dreary, and I guess it was more about the problems of the writers than the fiber craft. Granted, many of the stories told of how knitting helped through difficult times, but the fact that these were short stories just did not hold my interest. None of the stories were memorable for me personally. Again, I wish I had liked this better, but I found that I would have rather been knitting than reading.Just for fun These were interesting stories. They get you thinking about all they ways people can be. It reminds you that your own story is part of the big human picture. It's also a good book in that each story is rather short and tidy, so you can read a little at a time. It gives you time to absorb and mull over what happened in the story. When you're knitting, your mind can wander around exploring ideas (once you memorized the lace pattern for that set of rows!).Meh! I abandoned it. I wasn't getting anything out of the essays. There are much better knitting essay books. Don't waste your time on this one.
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