Full name: The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

Author: Clara Parkes Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Memoirs, Essays Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781617690020 1617690023

Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we've tucked away in our memory banks. Over time, those stitches form a map of our lives. --From the preface in  The Yarn Whisperer: Reflections on a Life in Knitting, renowned knitter and author Clara Parkes ponders the roles knitting plays in her life via 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love, and celebration, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters to create and explores the ways in which knitting can be looked at as a metaphor for so many other things. Put simply, �No matter how perfect any one sweater may be, it's only human to crave another. And another, and another." Similar books: Sweater Quest by Adrienne Martini The Knowledgeable Knitter by Margaret Radcliffe The Knitter's Life List by Gwen W. Steege Cast On, Bind Off by Leslie Ann Bestor Circular Knitting Workshop by Margaret Radcliffe Stitch 'n Bitch Superstar Knitting by Debbie Stoller Knitter's Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters by Ann Budd The Knitting Sutra by Susan G. Lydon All Wound Up by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee DomiKNITrix by Jennifer Stafford Itty-Bitty Hats by Susan B. Anderson Baby Knits For Beginners by Debbie Bliss Traditional Knitting Patterns from Scandinavia, the British Isles, France, Italy by James Norbury Knitting Counterpanes by Mary Walker Phillips Nordic Knitting by Susanne Pagoldh High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten A Lowcountry Heart by Pat Conroy The Writing Life by Annie Dillard Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan