Short description
Celebrates artisans from all over the world of knitting. This book features thirty-eight interviews with American spinners, weavers and knitters. It also features shepherds caring for rare breeds, a plant biologist developing a strain of naturally colored cotton, and the hand spinners and hand dyers who produce gorgeous skeins of yarn.
Long description
Melanie Falick celebrates artisans from all over the world of knitting in these thirty-eight illuminating interviews with America's leading spinners, weavers and knitters. Meet the fascinating people behind the knitting scene: shepherds caring for rare breeds, a plant biologist developing a strain of naturally colored cotton, the hand spinners and hand dyers who produce gorgeous skeins of yarn which are works of art in themselves and the creative knitting designers, all of whom have changed our knitting lives and made knitting the important, magical craft it is.Melanie Falick interviews Kathryn Alexander, Pam Allen, Big Sky Fiber, Katy Blanchard, Beth Brown-Reinsel, Doris Brunton, Nancy Bush, Katharine Cobey, Judy Dercum, Valentina Devine, Nicky Epstein, Kerry Ferguson, Sue Flanders, Sally Fox, Norah Gaughn, Molly Geissman, Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, Julie Hoff, La Lana Wools, Selma Miriam, Morehouse Farm, Deborah Newton, Northwest Alpacas Ranch, Kristin Nicholas, Lisa Parks, Louise Parsons, Mary Walker Phillips, Linda Romens, Michele Rose, Karen Searle, Meg Swansen, Sarah Swett, Yvonne Uhlianuk, Lisbeth Upitis, Lynne Vogel and Barbara Walker. This title is read by Christine Marshall. The audiobook is abridged. Patterns not included. It contains 4 CDs, 4 hrs 56 min. Christine Marshall narrates the online version of the New Yorker magazine.