The yarn whisperer
Subtitle: my unexpected life in knitting
By: Clara Parkes
Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang; Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781617690020
Subjects: Knitters (Persons); Knitting; Biography; Anecdotes
Other titles: My unexpected life in knitting
Description: "Renowned knitter and author Clara Parkes uses the metaphor of knitting to tell her own story via twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays."--Front jacket flap.
Notes: "A Melanie Falick book."
Table of contents: title: On fakery... and confidence; title: The thing about bobbles; title: A good steek; title: Choreography of stitches; title: Nobody's fool; title: How does your garden grow; title: Public/private; title: Stitch traffic; title: Outed; title: Kitchenering; title: Brioche; title: Casting on; title: La belle France; title: Channeling June Cleaver; title: Pablo Casals, Grandpa, and me; title: The dropped stich; title: Beating the bias; title: The great whodunit; title: Aunt Judy; title: Coming undone; title: Making Martha's sandwich; title: Happily ever after.