Vanishing Fleece

Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356829
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Fleece written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.

Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams Press
ISBN 13 : 9781419735370
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Fleece written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Travel the country with her as she meets a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin ("the most knitterly state") and back again; along the way, she presents a behind-the-scenes look at the spinners, scourers, genius inventors, and crazy-complex mill machines that populate the yarn-making industry. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead. Simply put, no other book exists that explores American culture through the lens of wool.

Author : Esther Rutter
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 9781783784363
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Golden Fleece written by Esther Rutter and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Britain's long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.

Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683351622
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Stash of One's Own written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this anthology from the author of The Yarn Whisperer, twenty-one devoted knitters examine a subject that is irresistible to us all: the yarn stash. Anyone with a passion has a stash, whether it is a collection of books or enough yarn to exceed several life expectancies. With her trademark wit, Clara Parkes brings together fascinating stories from all facets of stash-keeping and knitting life—from KonMari minimalist to joyous collector, designer to dyer, spinner to social worker, scholar to sheep farmer. Whether the yarn stash is muse, memento, creative companion, career guide, or lifeline in tough times, these deeply engaging stories take a fascinating look at why we collect, what we cherish, and how we let go. Contributors include New York Times–bestselling authors Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and Debbie Stoller, Meg Swansen and Franklin Habit, Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner, Adrienne Martini, and a host of others. Named one of the top ten lifestyle books for fall 2017 by Publisher’s Weekly.

Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613129394
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knitlandia written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned knitter and author of The Yarn Whisperer spins tales of a creative life enriched by world travel in this New York Times–bestselling memoir. In Knitlandia, Parkes invite readers and devoted crafters on excursions to be savored, through seventeen of her most memorable journeys across the globe. Her knitting adventures span from the fjords of Iceland to a cozy yarn shop in Paris’s thirteenth arrondissement. Also known for her PBS television appearances and hugely popular line of small-batch handcrafted yarns, Parkes weaves her personal blend of wisdom and humor into this eloquently volume that is part personal travel narrative and part cultural history, touching the heart of what it means to live creatively.

Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613125771
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yarn Whisperer written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In this charming series of linked essays,” the renowned knitter and author explores the meaning and importance of knitting in her life (Vogue Knitting). In The Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parkes offers reflections and stories from a lifetime of knitting through twenty-two captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny essays. Recounting tales of childhood and adulthood, family, friends, adventure, privacy, disappointment, love, and celebration, Parkes hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters to create. With surprising insight and wry humor, she draws clever parallels between life’s twists and turns what knitters see on their needles. Stockinette, ribbing, cables, even the humble yarn over can instantly evoke places, times, people, conversations, all those poignant moments that we’ve tucked away in our memory banks. Over time, those stitches form a map of our lives (From the preface).

Author : Catherine Friend
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0306818442
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sheepish written by Catherine Friend and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Hit By a Farm"--a "charming memoir...[with]magical moments" ("New York Times Book Review")--comes a hilarious solution to the planet's environmental woes: sheep!

Author : Susan Blacker
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811760952
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pure Wool written by Susan Blacker and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to select and wisely use single-breed wool yarn for knitting, crocheting, and other needlecrafts.

Author : Barbara Teller Ornelas
Publisher : Thrums Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999051757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spider Woman's Children written by Barbara Teller Ornelas and published by Thrums Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navajo rugs set the gold standard for handwoven textiles in the U.S. But what about the people who create these treasures? Spider Woman's Children is the inside story, told by two women who are both deeply embedded in their own culture and considered among the very most skillful and artistic of Navajo weavers today. Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete are fifth-generation weavers who grew up at the fabled Two Grey Hills trading post. Their family and clan connections give them rare insight, as this volume takes readers into traditional hogans, remote trading posts, reservation housing neighborhoods, and urban apartments to meet weavers who follow the paths of their ancestors, who innovate with new designs and techniques, and who uphold time-honored standards of excellence. Throughout the text are beautifully depicted examples of the finest, most mindful weaving this rich tradition has to offer.

Author : Dale Berra
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316525464
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Dad, Yogi written by Dale Berra and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid and nostalgic father-son memoir by Dale Berra, providing a unique perspective on his legendary Hall of Fame dad, the inimitable and highly quotable Yogi Berra. Everyone knows Yogi Berra. The American icon was the backbone of the New York Yankees through ten World Series Championships, managed the National League Champion New York Mets in 1973, and had an ingenious way with words that remains an indelible part of our lexicon. But no one knew him like his family did. My Dad, Yogi is Dale Berra's chronicle of his unshakeable bond with his father, as well as an intimate portrait of one of the great sports figures of the 20th Century. When Yogi wasn't playing or coaching, or otherwise in the public eye, he was home in the New Jersey suburbs, spending time with his beloved wife, Carmen, and his three boys, Larry, Tim, and Dale. Dale presents -- as only a son could -- his family's history, his parents' enduring relationship, and his dad's storied career. Throughout Dale's youth, he had a firsthand look at the Major Leagues, often by his dad's side during Yogi's years as a coach and manager. The Berra's lifelong family friends included Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford. It's no coincidence that all three Berra sons were inspired to play sports constantly, and that all three became professional athletes, following in their dad's footsteps. Dale came up with the Pittsburgh Pirates, contributing to their 1979 championship season and emerging as one of baseball's most talented young players. After three strong seasons, Dale was traded to New York, briefly united with his dad in the Yankee dugout. But there was also an extraordinary challenge developing. Dale was implicated in a major cocaine scandal involving some of the biggest names in the sport, and his promising career was ultimately cut short by his drug problem. Yogi supported his son all along, eventually staging the intervention that would save Dale's life, and draw the entire family even closer. My Dad, Yogi is Dale's tribute to his dad -- a treat for baseball fans and a poignant story for fathers and sons everywhere.