The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting
"...Clara Parkes has taken the common threads that join all knitters, and she's made them into a glorious patchwork blanket of a book. It's warm, it's beautiful, and there's love in every bit of it." -Mary Mooney, The Oregonian"Clara Parkes is the MFK Fisher of knitting: unflinching, all-seeing, mysterious--and also kind. In this collection of beautifully wrought essays, Clara explores the territory where knitting overlaps with a life well lived." - Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner, Mason-Dixon Knitting"I was utterly captivated by the book." - Knitty.com"In this charming series of linked essays, Parkes metaphorically puts the fast whorl on her wheel and spins something entirely new, showing that she's not just a good writer but a great one. Funny, sweet, and trenchant and offered in twenty-two digestible bits, this book is not only the quintessential sampler afghan of knit lit, it is also the 'It' gift of the season. Buy a stack to stuff inside the handmade stockings of your knitting-circle friends."   -Vogue Knitting