Stephanie Pearl-McPhee – författare

Knitting might be relaxing for some people, but Stephanie Pearl-McPhee knows that the real spirit of knitting lies somewhere between obsession and insanity! This hilarious book will have obsessive knitters everywhere laughing in relieved recognition – even while planning their next yarn-buying expedition.Do you ever...Experience palpitations when passing a yarn shop?Sneak new yarn purchases into the house?Utter the words "just one more row"?Plan your vacation around yarn store locations?Secretly scope out new spots to store your stash?If you answered "yes" to one or more of these, you are at risk of becoming an obsessive knitter. This totally incurable condition is sure to be helped by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and heartfelt "meditations". Her tangled reflections on the knitter's life with keep you in stitches and unravel your tensions for many warm and woolly moments to come.

In Thing I Learned From Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not), Pearl Mc-Phee examines age-old aphorisms in light of knitting. From "Hope Springs Eternal" to "A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed" and "Birds of a Feather Flock Together", Pearl=McPhee casts a fresh, off-beat light on these sayings. Presented in quick, punchy takes, each entry in this book calls out to be read aloud and shared with anyone who enjoys playing with yarn and needles.Pearl-McPhee's observations are hilarious; the situations she describes strike a familiar "not you, too?" feeling in the heart of anyone who knits. Interspersed throughout the book are her notes on the things that "Knitting is still trying to teach me..." That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open. Nobody looks good that close up.

Both a celebration of knitting and a sourcebook for practical information, Knitting Rules! offers simple instructions for making hats, socks, and scarves, and sympathetic, emotional support. Pearl-McPhee examines essential truisms of knitting, side by side with tongue-in-cheek warnings, realities, and fantasies about the act of knitting and the people who do it. Unraveling the mysteries of what it is that makes knitting click, the Yarn Harlot is at her hilarious best!

Everyone's favourite knitter and blogger Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) is back again with more knitting enjoyment to reveal the purest elements of her woolly craft-obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun in the paperback edition of Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again. Free-Range Knitter has the same wide appeal to knitters as her first book. Stephanie's unique and humorous look at her obsession is written so that knitters of every skill level can appreciate, laugh, and elate to her experiences.