Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again (Hardcover)

from mlloyd

If you're looking for a knitting book with splashy color photographs, patterns, and tips and techniques, this isn't it. If you're looking for a knitting book with wry comments, humor, and passion about knitting, then you've found it. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's latest book of knitting philosophy, cl...

from Justy

The Yarn Harlot strikes again! I loved this book, it was a real page turner. This book isn't so much about knitting but is a collection of stories which show how knitting affects knitters and those around them. I think one of my favourite stories is of a small child who was sitting knitting and l...

from kcarmack

This is not just a book for knitters. It is a very funny, very sweet set of essays on the human experience of people who just happen to knit. These are stories for any cook who has ever tried to (unsuccessfully) make a recipe his own; for any mother who wants just five minutes to go to the bathro...

from nittnut

I loved this book. On the back there is a quote from the author that says: This book is about the things we have in common, we knitters, no matter where we live, whom we love, or what we are knitting...This book, though it appears to be about knitting, is actually about knitters. That pretty much...

from BeckyJG

You probably don't know this if you're not a knitter (or a bookseller), but the craft of knitting has a long tradition of literature. Not only how-to books, although there are certainly plenty of those. But even the most basic learn-to-knit book contains rumination on the craft, the art, the trad...