Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the Worlds Ugliest Sweater
Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the Worlds Ugliest Sweater "Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important…
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Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the Worlds Ugliest Sweater
"Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too."--PeopleIn 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. Some adopted puppies. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to everyone.The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small.
Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. Others stress-baked. 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