BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

    (By Peggy Orenstein)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 26 MB (26,085 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 654 times
    Last checked 13 Hour ago!
    Author Peggy Orenstein
    “Book Descriptions: In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.

    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 not just wool but her grief over the recent death of her mother and the decline of her dad, the impending departure of her college-bound daughter, and other thorny issues of aging as a woman in a culture that by turns ignores and disdains them. What she didn't expect was a journey into some of the major issues of our time: climate anxiety, racial justice, women's rights, the impact of technology, sustainability, and, ultimately, the meaning of home.

    With her wry voice, sharp intelligence, and exuberant honesty, Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother, writer, and maker--and teaches us all something about creativity and connection.”

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

    ★★★★★

    Clara Parkes

    Book 1

    Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

    ★★★★★

    Clara Parkes

    Book 1

    A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting Go of Yarn

    ★★★★★

    Clara Parkes

    Book 1

    The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

    ★★★★★

    Clara Parkes

    Book 1

    At Knit's End

    ★★★★★

    Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

    Book 1

    The Joy of Yarn: Your Stash Solution for Curating, Organizing and Using Your Yarn―with 10 Knitting Patterns

    ★★★★★

    Marie Greene

    Book 1

    Please Grow: Lessons on Thriving for Plants (and People)

    ★★★★★

    Alex Testere

    Book 1

    Congratulations, the Best is Over!

    ★★★★★

    R. Eric Thomas

    Book 1

    The Backyard Bird Chronicles

    ★★★★★

    Amy Tan

    Book 1

    No Two Persons

    ★★★★★

    Erica Bauermeister

    Book 1

    Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

    ★★★★★

    Hannah Carlson

    Book 1

    The Last Animal: A Novel

    ★★★★★

    Ramona Ausubel

    Book 1

    Sipsworth

    ★★★★★

    Simon Van Booy

    Book 1

    Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    ★★★★★

    Melissa L. Sevigny

    Book 1

    America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled

    ★★★★★

    Blythe Roberson

    Book 1

    You Could Make This Place Beautiful

    ★★★★★

    Maggie Smith