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All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes For A Spin (2011)

by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0740797573 (ISBN13: 9780740797576)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Andrews McMeel Publishing

review 1: I picked up this little book because this year my new hobby has been teaching myself how to knit, and I found Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's blog which I enjoy. This was a nice easy read, sort of comfy little stories or essays about knitting, among other things. Some are funny, some very heartfelt. Nothing amazing but I enjoyed it. I think you probably would want to have some kind of interest in knitting or similar hand-made crafts in order to appreciate it.
review 2: Her subject is knitting, but she's really a philosopher. The picture Pearl-McPhee paints of herself is of someone a bit ditzy, more than a little OCD (I mean, who gets twitchy if they forget to take their knitting to a restaurant?), but there's wisdom beneath the surface. Who hasn't way optimistically... more overestimated what she can accomplish in a given amount of time? Who hasn't bought something that represents the self she'd like to be, instead of the one she is? I love her struggles with gauge ("An Irresponsible Multiplier") and with starting a pattern that just won't go right ("Failure to Think"). A shot of encouragement to help you realize that we all go through the same struggles. less

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