num_pages: 192
description: From New York Times bestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes comes a new collection of essays and stories drawn from the yarn-loving stash-collecting close-knit community of knitters. This addictive-to-read anthology celebrates yarnspecifically the knitters reputation for acquiring it in large quantities and storing it away in whats lovingly referred to as a stash. Consider contributions from knitting and teaching luminaries including: BUST co-founder Debbie Stoller Meg Swansen daughter of master knitter Elizabeth Zimmermann Knitting blogger and author Susan B. Anderson alongside offerings from knitting greats Amy Herzog Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and Franklin Habitplus stories from a romance novelist an illustrator a PhD-wielding feminist publisher a globetrotting textile artist a licensed clinical social worker and the people behind the worlds largest collective online stash Ravelry.com. The pieces range from comical to earnest lighthearted to deeply philosophical as each seeks to answer the question of how the stash a knitter has accumulated over the years reflects his or her place in universe. The stories in A Stash of Ones Own represent and provide validation for knitters wildly varying perspectives on yarn from holding zero stash to stash-busting to stockpiling masses of itand even including it in estate plans. These tales are for all fiber artists spinners dyers crafters crocheters sheep farmers shop owners beginning knitters to yarn experts and everyone who has ever loved a skein too hard to let it go. 
language: None
title: A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn
publisher: Harry N. Abrams