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Title: A Stash of One's OwnAuthor: Various - edited by Clara Parkes
Genre: Essays
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 192
Date read: December 2018
This addictive-to-read anthology celebrates yarn—specifically, the knitter’s reputation for acquiring it in large quantities and storing it away in what’s lovingly referred to as a “stash.”
The stories in A Stash of One’s Own represent and provide validation for knitters’ wildly varying perspectives on yarn, from holding zero stash, to stash-busting, to stockpiling masses of it—and even including it in estate plans. These tales are for all fiber artists, spinners, dyers, crafters, crocheters, sheep farmers, shop owners, beginning knitters to yarn experts, and everyone who has ever loved a skein too hard to let it go.
A charming collection on essays about living with yarn in all its permutations. As always with anthologies, there were some essays I connected with more closely than others (and even some - like the one by Rachael Herron - which made me ugly-cry), but as a knitter (and stasher!) myself, I could relate to all of them in one way or another, and it was interesting to see how differently people stash! I'm definitely more like Stephanie Pearl-McPhee than Amy Herzog. There were a few I skimmed, and some I probably won't reread on subsequent read-throughs, but all in all it was definitely a comfort read and an anthology I would recommend to other knitters.
