Describes and critiques various aspects of the land land of knitting - its people, native language, familiar phrases, strange beliefs, etiquette, and cultural customs.
The Yarn Harlot Writes Again. Everyone's favourite knitter and blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (aka The Yarn Harlot) is back again with more knitting enjoyment to reveal the purest elements of her woolly craft obsession.
Both a celebration of knitting and a book for practical information, this book is a collection of advice for the knitter. It examines essential truisms of knitting, with warnings, realities, and fantasies about the act of knitting and the people who do it. It includes information on everything from yarn needles, gauge, and knitting bag, and more.
Knitting finally takes its rightful place on the spectrum of personal obsessions, alongside golfing, fishing, and gardening. The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in these 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.