Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
By: Clara Parkes
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar…
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1. All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin
By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
4.12
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
". . . a sort of David Sedaris-like take on knitting. Laugh-out-loud funny most of the time and poi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
"As usual, the sock yarns have no idea what is going on."-Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin
"A plain sock by itself is terribly boring, but it could score points by having a clever stitch pattern, or maybe by being made out of a very beautiful yarn that's an enchantment to work with. (Sadly,…"-Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin
"I think my personal minimum score for anything I'm thinking about doing--knitting or not--is about a seven on the interest scale. If something's scoring a five, like a movie, then I need to add at le…"-Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, All Wound Up: The Yarn Harlot Writes for a Spin
2. Adventures in Yarn Farming: Four Seasons on a New England Fiber Farm
By: Barbara Parry
3.87
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
A knitting book focusing on the sheep-to-shawl process by a well-known knitter, shepherd, and artis… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- nature
3. Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
By: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
2.83
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient soci… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
4. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Casts Off: The Yarn Harlot's Guide to the Land of Knitting
By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
4.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Cast off with Stephanie Pearl-McPhee on the ultimate journey through the knitter's world. Pack your… read more
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- memoir
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
5. Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again
By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
4.83
Format: 28 pages,
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- crafts
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6. Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet
By: Catherine Friend
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farmin… read more
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7. A Life in Stitches: Knitting My Way through Love, Loss, and Laughter
By: Rachael Herron (RH Herron)
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In these 20 heartfelt essays, Rachael Herron celebrated romance novelist by day, 911 dispatcher by … read more
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8. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter
By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
3.79
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun … read more
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9. At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
The tangled life of the knitter is the subject of inspired nuttiness in 300 tongue-in-cheek meditat… read more
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10. Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting
By: Ann Hood
3.44
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knit… read more
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11. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
By: Margaret Renkl
4.37
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
12. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
By: Peggy Orenstein
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- nature
- audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater
13. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World
By: Victoria Finlay
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A magnificent work of original research, unwinding history through cloth –how we make it, use it an… read more
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- history
- memoir
- travel
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
14. A Short History of the World According to Sheep
By: Sally Coulthard
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An addictively free-ranging survey of the huge impact that sheep have had on human history. From… read more
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- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- nature
- audiobook
15. The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
By: Jane Cooper
4.05
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray… read more
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- memoir
- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- nature
- audiobook
16. Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool
By: Clara Parkes
4.19
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yar… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- travel
- animals
- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- nature
- audiobook
17. Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting
By: Patty Lyons
4.61
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Do you wish your knitting was better and that you had an expert knitter by your side to help you wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- knitting
18. The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting
By: Alanna Okun
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is a memoir about life truths learned through crafting. Peopl… read more
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- memoir
- knitting
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- crafts
- audiobook
19. The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle
By: Anna Shechtman
3.38
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Combining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.12
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textil… read more
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- knitting
- nonfiction
- crafts
- audiobook
21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- history
- audiobook
