At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much Audiobook (Free)

The Yarn Harlot takes time away from her knitting to provide observations, meditations, reflections, and rants to soothe and delight the knitter’s unraveled soul.

Like golfing, fishing, and gardening, knitting can be an obsession. It’s a task fraught with guilt, stress, over-optimism, sly deception, and compulsion, along with passionate moments of innovative enlightenment. Not forgetting heaps of yarn you truly believe you’ll knit someday.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee totally understands. In this about At Knit’s End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much hilarious collection of tangled reflections, she offers ample reassurance for anybody who has ever wondered, ‘Am I only in my mania?’ Casting off with some of her preferred quotations, she muses on why you can’t really knit too much, how many calorie consumption knitting burns up (about ninety one hour, not really counting the excess for retrieving your ball of yarn from beneath the couch), so when it’s okay to stalk a man in the supermarket (not because he’s good-looking, but because he’s putting on an Aran sweater you want to know how to knit).

The first rung on the ladder toward recovery is getting help-and having a good laugh at the compulsion. At Knit’s End is normally a wicked and wickedly funny repair for just about any knitter.