Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun as baseball and way cooler than the evil looped path of crochet. Every project, from a misshapen hat to the most magnificent sweater, holds a story. Yarn Harlot tells all those stories with humor, insight, and sympathy for the obsessed. Over 50 million people in America knit. The average knitter spends between $500 and $1,700 a year on yarn, patterns, needles, and books. No longer just a fad or a hobby, knitting has advanced to a lifestyle. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter moves beyond instructions and patterns into the purest elements of knitting: obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's humorous and poignant essays find humor in knitting an enormous afghan that requires a whopping 30 balls of wool, having a husband with size 13 feet who loves to wear hand-knit socks, and earns her "yarn harlot" title with her love of any new yarn--she'll quickly drop an old project for the fresh saucy look of a new interesting yarn. Since the upsurge in knitting began in the early '90s, the number of women under 45 who knit has doubled. Knitting is no longer a hobby for just grandmothers--women and men of all ages are embracing this art. Describing its allure is best left to Stephanie who explains: "It is a well-known fact that knitting is a sparkling form of entertainment, as spiritual as yoga, as relaxing as a massage, and as funny as Erma Bombeck trapped in a PTA meeting."

The Secret Life of a Knitter

Yarn Harlot

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the celebrated blogger and humorist of the knitting world, is back, continuing her running dialogue with her knitting compatriots. Both a celebration of knitting and a sourcebook for practical information, this book is a collection of useful advice and emotional support for the knitter. 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. She unravels the mysteries of what it is that makes knitting click, and dares to question longstanding rules and uncover the true essence of what makes a hat a hat, a sock a sock, and so on. Insights into why certain techniques work encourage knitters to take control and knit in the way that works best for them.--From publisher description.

Knitting Rules!

Shares humorous and reflective essays about such topics as e-mail, parenthood, the permanent effects of dodgeball, and creative discipline.

Stories of Tidiness, Self-Esteem and Other Things I Gave Up On

The Amazing Thing about the Way It Goes

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. --publisher.

Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

At Knit's End

In 'All Wound Up', Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, the self-proclaimed Yarn Harlot and the "New York Times" bestselling author of 'Free-Range Knitter', offers her third assortment of yarns on knitting. In her latest collection of compositions, McPhee touches on knitting, parenting, friendship, and life in essays that are at times touching, often funny, and always entertaining.

The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin

All Wound Up

A collection of essays in which Stephanie Pearl-McPhee shares knitting related life lessons.

Whether I Wanted to Or Not

Things I Learned from Knitting

The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off

the yarn harlot writes again

Free-range knitter

This paperback edition of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's popular Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again reminds us of the joy we felt upon first encountering her hilarious and poignant collection of essays surrounding her favorite topics: knitting, knitters, and what happens when you get those two things anywhere near ordinary people. For the 60 million knitters in America, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (a.k.a. the Yarn Harlot) shares stories of knitting horrors and triumphs, knitting successes and defeats, but, mostly, stories about the human condition that ring true for everyone--especially if you happen to have a rather large amount of yarn in your house. Funny, unique, and gleeful in her obsession, Pearl-McPhee speaks to knitters of all skill levels in this delightful celebration of craft and creativity.

The Yarn Harlot Writes Again

Free-Range Knitter

The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in 300 tongue-in-cheek meditations from the Yarn Harlot, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee. At Knit’s End captures the wickedly funny musings of someone who doesn’t believe it’s possible to knit too much and who willingly sacrifices sleep, family, work, and sanity in order to keep doing it. Covering everything from the deadly “second sock syndrome” to a pile of yarn so big it can hide a washing machine, this hilarious collection will have knitters in stitches!

The author of Knit’s End and the popular Yarn Harlot blog takes crafters on a creative voyage through the world of knitting. Pack your crafting bag, chart a course to the nearest yarn shop, and cast off with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee on a journey into the Land of Knitting. With wry humor and a contagiously obsessive love for everything knitted, Pearl-McPhee is your ideal travel guide. She explains the local history and culture, recounts stories of prominent citizens, and offers advice on potential dangers, such as the rare Finish-It-Upitis and the dreaded Second Sock Syndrome!

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