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Author Parkes, Clara, author.

Title The yarn whisperer : my unexpected life in knitting / Clara Parkes.

Publication Info. New York : STC Craft, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B PARKES CLARA P    Check Shelf
Description 160 pages ; 21 cm
Note "A Melanie Falick book."
Contents On fakery... and confidence -- The thing about bobbles -- A good steek -- Choreography of stitches -- Nobody's fool -- How does your garden grow -- Public/private -- Stitch traffic -- Outed -- Kitchenering -- Brioche -- Casting on -- La belle France -- Channeling June Cleaver -- Pablo Casals, Grandpa, and me -- The dropped stich -- Beating the bias -- The great whodunit -- Aunt Judy -- Coming undone -- Making Martha's sandwich -- Happily ever after.
Summary "Renowned knitter and author Clara Parkes uses the metaphor of knitting to tell her own story via twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays."--Front jacket flap.
Subject Parkes, Clara -- Anecdotes.
Knitting -- Anecdotes.
Knitters (Persons) -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9781617690020 (hardcover)
1617690023 (hardcover)
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