Knitting yarns : writers on knitting

Knitting yarns Writers on knitting

Book - 2014

A collection of essays about the transformative power of knitting from 27 contemporary authors, including Ann Patchett, Barbara Kingsolver, John Dufresne, and Joyce Maynard.

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Subjects
Knitting.
Knitters (Persons)
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company [2014]
Language
English
Other Authors
Ann Hood, 1956- (editor of compilation)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
viii, 294 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780393239492
  • Introduction
  • Knitting Pattern: "Banks" Fingerless Mittens
  • The Pretend Knitter
  • The Perfect Gift
  • Blood, Root, Knit, Purl
  • To Knit a Knot, or Not: A Beginner's Yarn
  • Home Ec
  • Knitting Pattern: "Bingham" Cabled Head Wrap
  • Soft, Warm, and Fuzzy
  • Looped Yarn
  • Teaching a Child to Knit
  • Knitting in Kathmandu
  • Ten Things I Learned from Knitting
  • Knitting Pattern: "Bowden" Coffee Cozies
  • Judite
  • Where to Begin
  • The One-Year Marriage
  • Knitting a Family
  • Knitting: Epic Fail
  • I Bought This Pattern Book Last Spring
  • Knitting Pattern: "Ashworth" Ruffled Slipper
  • The Supernatural Power of Knitting
  • Straw into Gold
  • Failing Better
  • How Knitting Saved My Life. Twice
  • The Clothes Make the Dog
  • Knitting Pattern: Clevis's Perfect-Fit Sweater
  • High-Strung Knitter
  • Knitted Goods: Notes from a Nervous Non-Knitter
  • What Are You Making?
  • Crafty Critters
  • Found Objects
  • Why Bother?
  • Knitting Pattern: "Fisher" Lacy Wrap
  • Contributors
Review by Booklist Review

This is a collection of essays and one poem by well-known authors about the magical powers of knitting. The book also includes six knitting patterns interspersed throughout the book. Because the focus of the text is on the act of knitting and the feelings evoked rather than the finished product, there are no images or diagrams to accompany the knitting projects. Rather, the text invites the reader to curl up with a book or with knitting and be transported to a world of healing, peace, and calm. These are deeply personal stories ranging from true and heartbreaking (Martha Frankel attempting to keep her friend from joining a cult through knitting), to the honest and humorous (finger knitting being even more relaxing than knitting because you can drink your martini while finger knitting). This book makes you want to start knitting or resurrect an old knitting project.--Pfenning, Rebecca Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Why do we knit? Why do we love to knit? And why, at times, do we need to knit? Novelist Hood (The Knitting Circle) has assembled 26 essays and one poem that meditate on the magic of knitting. Six companion patterns accompany them. With essays as varied as any pattern or skein of yarn, writers as different as Sue Grafton and Andre Dubus III, Anita Shreve and Barbara Kingsolver, follow their own knitting, and the knitting of others, through personal and familial histories, great friendships and romances, through dark, dreamy, and downright dusty times. Knitting plays the role of nemesis, companion, and guide. Grafton claims that "knitting can create an immutable bond between teacher and pupil; one that will resonate through a lifetime." And indeed, this collection is rife with teachers who still resonate with these writers: mothers, grandmothers, aunts, friends, daughters, even complete strangers. Several essays explore the palpably strong role knitting seems to have as grief's companion and salve. While tracing the magic of knitting, these funny, honest, and moving essays turn out to be quite magical themselves. Agent: Maxine Groffsky, Maxine Groffsky Literary Agency. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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