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Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein
3 reviews
streberkatze's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
This memoir strue just the right balance between entertaining and toughy-provoking for me. I loved how the author interweaves her sweater-from-scratch journey with the exploration of bigger life issues. It never seemed forced. Highly recommend the audiobook version, narrated by the author.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Dementia
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Fatphobia
krisha's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
I enjoyed the reflections on the pandemic and the journey of sheep to sweater. However, it all seemed a bit unfocused. The author jumped from pandemic, to the environment, to relationships with her mother and daughter, to feminism, and on and on. Some of it worked, a lot of it didn't.
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal cruelty
alixcallender's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.75
If fiber craft occupies a big bright corner of your heart (like it does mine), pick up a copy of this book. Peggy Orenstein’s perspective as a curious and determined amateur tackling the process of sheep-to-sweater knitting is equally delightful, emotional, thoughtful, and funny.
She intersects her own experience of shearing, cleaning, carding, spinning, dyeing, designing, AND knitting this sweater with the history of wool textiles, “women’s work,” the evolutionary relationship of sheep and humans, the ecological plight of modern fast fashion, and so much more - all while unpacking the unpredictable vagaries of motherhood, aging (as a woman), losing your parents, climate change, and lockdown.
I absolutely adored this book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent, Dementia, Animal cruelty, and Sexism
Minor: Racism and Eating disorder
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