A Stash of One's Own by Clara Parkes

Hardback copy: From New York Times bestselling knitting writer Clara Parkes, this is a brilliant collection of essays and stories drawn from the yarn-loving, stash-collecting, close-knit community of knitters.

An addictive-to-read anthology which celebrates yarn—specifically, the knitter’s reputation for acquiring it in large quantities and storing it away in what’s lovingly referred to as a “stash.” Consider contributions from knitting and teaching luminaries, including:

- BUST co-founder Debbie Stoller
- Meg Swansen, daughter of master knitter Elizabeth Zimmermann
- Knitting blogger and author Susan B. Anderson

alongside offerings from knitting greats Amy Herzog, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, and Franklin Habit—plus, stories from a romance novelist, an illustrator, a PhD-wielding feminist publisher, a globetrotting textile artist, a licensed clinical social worker, and the people behind the world’s largest collective online stash, Ravelry.com.

The pieces range from comical to earnest, lighthearted to deeply philosophical as each seeks to answer the question of how the stash a knitter has accumulated over the years reflects his or her place in universe.

The stories in A Stash of One’s Own represent and provide validation for knitters’ wildly varying perspectives on yarn, from holding zero stash, to stash-busting, to stockpiling masses of it—and even including it in estate plans.

These tales are for all fibre artists, spinners, dyers, crafters, crocheters, sheep farmers, shop owners, beginning knitters to yarn experts, and everyone who has ever loved a skein too hard to let it go.

PRAISE
One of the top 10 lifestyle books for Fall 2017. — Publisher's Weekly
“Clara Parkes is the M. F. K. Fisher of knitting: unflinching, all-seeing, mysterious—and also kind.” — Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner, Mason-Dixon Knitting

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Clara Parkes, a celebrated raconteur and highly sought-after teacher, is the author of the New York Times bestseller Knitlandia and The Yarn Whisperer, as well as The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, The Knitter’s Book of Wool, and The Knitter’s Book of Socks. She is the founder and publisher of Knitter’s Review, an online epublication that explores the pleasures and subtleties of yarn, and a contributor to Mason Dixon Knitting. She lives in Maine with her partner and far too much yarn.