Knitting pearls
Subtitle: writers writing about knitting
By: edited by Ann Hood
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press Large Print Lifestyles; Thorndike Press large print lifestyles
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781410488619
Subjects: Knitters (Persons); Knitting; Anecdotes; Large type books; Authors; Psychological aspects; Patterns
Description: In Knitting Pearls, two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift of a knitted stocking. Jodi Picoult remembers her grandmother and how through knitting she felt that everlasting love. And Bill Roorbach remembers his freshman year in college when knitting soothed his broken heart and helped him fall in love again. Other contributors include Steve Almond, Ann Leary, Christina Baker Kline, Lee Woodruff, and knitting rock stars Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed and the Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parks, with knitting patterns from stores such as Purl Soho, Hill Country Weavers, and Churchmouse Yarns & Teas.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Ann Hood; title: Pattern: classic cuffed hat: Purl Soho, New York, NY --; title: Clothes for the living  -- Steve Almon; title: Knitting took me halfway round the world  -- Anne Bartlett; title: Unraveling  -- Cynthia Chinelly; title: Casting off a spell  -- Melissa Coleman; title: Big maroon sweater  -- Michael Collier; title: Pattern: paintbrush lace cowl: Hill country weavers, Austin, TX -- -- The; title: unravelers  -- Stephanie Mannatt Danler; title: Handmade at home  -- Jared Flood; title: Wool  -- Nick Flynn; title: Why, yes, I can knit my way out of a wet paper bag  -- Diana Gabaldon -- The; title: red vest  -- Debra Gwartney; title: Pattern: cheery seed stitch tea cozy, Bainbridge Island, WA --; title: What happened in Scotland  -- Jane Hamilton; title: My mother-in-law, her knitting, and me  -- Cathi Hanauer -- The; title: Italian hat  -- Lily King -- The; title: museum of the lady with only one neck  -- Perri Klass; title: How we spend our days  -- Christina Baker Kline; title: Pattern: chimes cowl: Loop, Philadelphia, PA --; title: On knitting  -- Ann Leary -- The; title: dinosaur sweater  -- Caroline Leavitt -- The; title: thirty-first stocking  -- Laura Lippman; title: Positive capability  -- Maile Meloy; title: Knit your bit  -- Steward O'Nan; title: Pattern: stonehaven stole and scarf: The Yarnery, Saint Paul, MN -- -- An; title: open letter to all my unfinished projects  -- Clara Parkes; title: Why I don't knit  -- Jodi Picoult; title: Creation myth  -- Robin Romm; title: Sarah with an H  -- Bill Roorbach; title: Patterns: rivulet cowl: Knit purl, Portland, OR --; title: Just this  -- Dani Shapiro; title: Ema's lessons  -- Samantha van Leer -- The; title: Santa stocking -- Lee Woodruff.