Free-Range Knitter - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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Title: Free-Range Knitter
Author: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Genre: Essay
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 228
Date read: July 2012, July 2013, January 2020

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee returns to pen another hilarious and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite topics: knitting, knitters, and what happens when you get those two things anywhere near ordinary people.

For the 60 million knitters in America, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) shares stories of knitting horrors and triumphs, knitting successes and defeats, but, mostly, stories about the human condition that ring true for everyone--especially if you happen to have a rather large amount of yarn in your house.


I loved this essay collection :) It's the first book I've read by the Yarn Harlot (although I've read some of her blog), but it definitely won't be the last. I've only knitted "for real" for two years, but already I could see far too much of myself in it, and she gave me a lot of new ideas for how to 'knit on the go'.

It's a cozy read whose only fault was that it kept making me want to put down my Kindle and pick up my knitting instead.

Reread 2020 Unfortunately I had to downgrade the rating a bit. I LOVED the first essay collection, but like her later ones, many of the essays in this one were only tangentially related to knitting.... and I just don't care as much about those. I still loved the ones that were focused on the knitting, but ended up mostly skimming the others.