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Bestselling author and self-proclaimed Yarn Harlot Pearl-McPhee spins her third yarn on knitting for the 60 million knitters in North America. In her trademark style, she talks about knitting, parenting, friendship, and--gasp!--even crocheting in essays that are at times touching, often hilarious, and always entertaining.
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The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein hoped the project would help her process...
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Obsidian, published by New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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©2015.
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English
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"In this holiday yarn from the national bestselling author of A Finely Knit Murder, all Izzy Chambers Perry wants for Christmas is to keep her brother out of jail. In Sea Harbor, the holidays mean cozy fires, festive carols, and soft skeins of yarn waiting to become hats and sweaters and scarves. And this year, Izzy and the other Seaside Knitters are also knitting tiny ornaments to decorate a tree for the first annual tree-trimming contest. Their...
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Storey Pub
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[2011]
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English
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"The Knitter's Life List" is a richly illustrated road map to woolly adventures guaranteed to get any knitter's needles clicking faster. Listing more than 1,000 must-have experiences, this is the ultimate guidebook to everything knitting.
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Kensington Books
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English
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When a mentor's murder in the aftermath of a socially embarrassing dinner upends their tightly knit artist community, Knitters Society members Izzy, Birdie, Nell, and Cass connect scattered clues to investigate a list of potential suspects.
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2018.
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English
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Kelly Flynn has been enjoying motherhood and avoiding murder, but when a friend's life is cut short, she enlists the Lambspun knitters to catch a heartless killer in the last Knitting Mystery novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Only Skein Deep. Kelly is happily busy with her son, Jack, now a rambunctious four-year-old preschooler. Jack keeps his mom on her toes and drinking all the coffee she can handle at Pete's Porch Café. Kelly's...
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Obsidian
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©2015.
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English
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"Seaside Knitter Birdie Favazza is thrilled that her granddaughter, Gabby, will be visiting for the fall and attending the Sea Harbor Community Day School. Gabby loves the all-girls school, with its newly adopted progressive curriculum, and she loves that the Seaside Knitters are teaching knitting as part of the enrichment program. It's a huge success, and on crisp autumn days girls camp out on the terraces, knitting hats for charity. But not everyone...
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W.W. Norton & Company
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[2016]
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English
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"The rhythm, ritual, and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature. In [this book], two dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy, and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift...
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LeRoy Watts, owner of Watts Electrical, is waiting for his twin sons to come home when a recently fired employee staggers in and threatens to blackmail him. Watts shoots him with a supposedly non-lethal Taser, and he dies. Meanwhile, several members in a local knitting group are being stalked by telephone. One of them is Victoria Trumbull's granddaughter, and the 92-year-old sleuth sets out to investigate both situations.
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2011.
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Rachael Herron has always had a knitting project close at hand, as she learned that knitting is more than just a process of making objects...knitting can be a way of measuring a life by the stitches made. Honest, funny, and full of warmth, her tales will speak to knitters of every type showing that even when things unravel, there is always a way to knit them back together...sometimes into something even better.
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Kensington Books
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2019.
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English
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While the Seaside Knitters get ready to showcase their new Danish-inspired event, locals can't stop talking about Tess Bean-a bright-eyed environmental activist with a way of charming both animals and humans alike. Birdie's granddaughter is mesmerized by ethereal Tess's passion for saving the earth and ocean, and even Izzy's old Irish setter becomes attached to the young woman's gentle touch . . . Except not everyone is a fan of Tess and her strong...
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Kensington Books
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2017.
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English
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After retrieving fresh lobster nets from a local Laundromat, Cass Halloran rushes to attend a last-minute gathering with her knitting circle. But Cass cant stop worrying about the lonely boy seen hanging around the dryers, and the school uniform he left behind in a hurry. When the ladies return the lost clothing the next day, they find the child and his younger sister alone, seemingly abandoned by their mother . . . The knitters intend to facilitate...
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©2013.
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Springtime in Fort Connor, Colorado, is a breeze until a veteran con man shows up in town. Everyone-including the House of Lambspun knitters-is up in arms, and once again it's up to Kelly Flynn to untangle the threads of a complicated crime. Years ago, Jared Rizzoli operated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded countless Fort Connor residents-including Barbara, one of the shop's knitters. Jared went to jail for his crime, but after being released for good...
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