Description

• Description
• Book Specs

• Hardback copy: From New York Times bestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes,this is a brilliantcollection of essays and stories drawn from the yarn-loving, stash-collecting, close-knit community of knitters.

  An addictive-to-read anthology which celebrates yarnspecifically, the knitters reputation for acquiring it in large quantities and storing it away in whats lovingly referred to as a stash. Consider contributions from knitting and teaching luminaries, including:

  – BUST co-founder Debbie Stoller
  – Meg Swansen, daughter of master knitter Elizabeth Zimmermann
  – Knitting blogger and author Susan B. Anderson

  alongside offerings from knitting greats Amy Herzog, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, and Franklin Habitplus, stories from a romance novelist, an illustrator, a PhD-wielding feminist publisher, a globetrotting textile artist, a licensed clinical social worker, and the people behind the worlds largest collective online stash, Ravelry.com.

  The pieces range from comical to earnest, lighthearted to deeply philosophical as each seeks to answer the question of how the stash a knitter has accumulated over the years reflects his or her place in universe.

  The stories in A Stash of Ones Own represent and provide validation for knitters wildly varying perspectives on yarn, from holding zero stash, to stash-busting, to stockpiling masses of itand even including it in estate plans.

  These tales are for all fibre 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.

  PRAISE
  One of the top 10 lifestyle books for Fall 2017. Publisher’s Weekly
  Clara Parkes is the M. F. K. Fisher of knitting: unflinching, all-seeing, mysteriousand also kind. Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner, Mason-Dixon Knitting

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  Clara Parkes, a celebrated raconteur and highly sought-after teacher, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Knitlandia and The Yarn Whisperer, as well as The Knitters Book of Yarn, The Knitters Book of Wool, and The Knitters Book of Socks. She is the founder and publisher of Knitters Review, an online epublication that explores the pleasures and subtleties of yarn, and a contributor to Mason Dixon Knitting. She lives in Maine with her partner and far too much yarn.

• Hardback: 191 pages

  Dimensions: 14 x 20 x 1.2 cm

  Publisher: Abrams Press