The yarn whisperer : my unexpected life in knitting / Clara Parkes.
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TextPublication details: New York : STC Craft, 2013Description: 160 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781617690020 (hbk.); 1617690023 (hbk.)Subject(s): Parkes, Clara -- Anecdotes | Knitting -- Anecdotes | Knitters (Persons) -- United States -- BiographyDDC classification: 677.028245092 LOC classification: TT820 | .P284 2013Summary: KNITTING. In Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting, Clara Parkes shares 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny stories about the role yarn and knitting play in her life. In the process, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters as well as the ways in which knitting can be looked at as a metaphor for so many other things. Within the foreword, she explains: "In Victorian times, people often spoke through flowers. They called it floriography. A simple acacia signified secret love, an oxeye daisy called for patience, and the pear blossom spoke of lasting friendship. But, as in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mysteries, some were harbingers of danger, dishonesty, even death. Women 'corresponded' through flowers, able to communicate far deeper meaning through them than they could put into words.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | 677.028245 PAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111056491655 |
"A Melanie Falick book."
KNITTING. In Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting, Clara Parkes shares 22 captivating, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny stories about the role yarn and knitting play in her life. In the process, she hits upon the universal truths that drive knitters as well as the ways in which knitting can be looked at as a metaphor for so many other things. Within the foreword, she explains: "In Victorian times, people often spoke through flowers. They called it floriography. A simple acacia signified secret love, an oxeye daisy called for patience, and the pear blossom spoke of lasting friendship. But, as in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple mysteries, some were harbingers of danger, dishonesty, even death. Women 'corresponded' through flowers, able to communicate far deeper meaning through them than they could put into words.
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