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Unraveling
by Peggy Orenstein
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0063081725 | 220 pages | True EPUB | 6.97 MB
"Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it's easy to forget she's an important thinker too."-People
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...
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