Yarn Harlot - Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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Title: Yarn Harlot
Author: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Genre: Essays
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 219
Date read: October 2012, October 2013, August 2014, December 2019

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun as baseball and way cooler than the evil looped path of crochet. Every project, from a misshapen hat to the most magnificent sweater, holds a story. "Yarn Harlot" moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn--she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn.

After reading Free-Range Knitter I wanted to read more of the Yarn Harlot's essays. Thankfully she didn't disappoint, and the only problem was that I could only read one or two essays at a time - then I had to go pick up my own knitting for a spell! Good thing they were short! ;)

Most of the essays were funny, charming and/or uplifting. However, there were two very sad ones, and one especially that left me sobbing :(

Reread for the October 2013 Read-a-Thon: PERFECT Read-a-Thon reading - especially for the late night / early morning hours.