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Clara Parkes coined the phrase “yarn whisperer” when she was working on her first book, The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, in 2006. “I was trying to describe what I felt people could become once they started to understand yarn better,” she explains, “because for so long in the knitting world, the focus has been on the project: You start with the project instead of starting from the yarn perspective. But the more you understand about the different fibers and how they can be twisted and spun, you can hold yarn in your hand and intuitively understand what the yarn wants to become.”
That led Parkes to write two more books about yarn, and in her latest venture, The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting, she takes the lessons she’s learned from knitting and applies them to life. “It turns away from factual reference material and really looks more inward in terms of the deeper connection that exists between who you are and what you knit, offering my own stories as the ex-ample,” she notes. “There are so many really amazing parallels between knitting and life.”
Parkes will be signing The Yarn Whisperer tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street; the signing will include an interactive game show and the chance to win some of the author’s homemade chocolate espresso caramels, known as “Claramels.” Visit tatteredcover.com or call 303-436-1070 for information.
Mon., Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m., 2013
