At Knits End, Stephanie PearlMcPhee
At Knits End, Stephanie PearlMcPhee
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At Knit's End
Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Author: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Narrator: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Unabridged: 3 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/04/2007


Synopsis

The Yarn Harlot takes time away from her knitting to offer observations, meditations, reflections, and rants to soothe and delight the knitter's unraveled soul.

Like golfing, fishing, and gardening, knitting is an obsession. It's an activity fraught with guilt, frustration, over-optimism, sly deception, and compulsion, along with passionate moments of creative enlightenment. Not to mention heaps of yarn you really think you'll knit someday.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee totally understands. In this hilarious collection of tangled reflections, she offers ample reassurance for anyone who has ever wondered, "Am I alone in my mania?" Casting off with some of her favorite quotations, she muses on why it's impossible to knit too much, how many calories knitting burns (about ninety an hour, not counting the extra for retrieving your ball of yarn from under the couch), and when it's okay to stalk a man in the grocery store (not because he's good-looking, but because he's wearing an Aran sweater you want to know how to knit).

The first step toward recovery is getting help—and having a good laugh at your compulsion. At Knit's End is a wicked and wickedly funny fix for any knitter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jesse on February 05, 2017

Fantastic read! I couldn't put it down! As a new knitter and a lover of pithy sayings this book was a treat to my inner knitter and nerdy soul.......more

Goodreads review by Jane on October 15, 2019

I'm going to give this five stars but also some caveats. 1) This is not Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's best format to work in. She's at her best when she can take a long time and dig deep, but the meditation format is brief and undercuts any major buildup. 2) The format of listening to it rather than readi......more

Goodreads review by Kelsey on January 02, 2025

Not really what I expected -- I was looking for/thought this would be serious -- but it was EXTREMELY relatable, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny. I sought this one out because I was looking for writing about using knitting as a coping or escape mechanism. Maybe it did end up being the book I......more

Goodreads review by Frederike on September 24, 2020

I love the quotations, e.g. by J.R.R. Tolkien "Not all who wander are lost" and also the accompanying texts and homespun truths "Respect your inner compass. It points to yarn."......more

Goodreads review by Shelby on April 20, 2023

Short and sweet and the inspiration for an exclusive yarn store trip this weekend 😄......more