Review by alixcallender - Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

A review by alixcallender
Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

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.

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A review by alixcallender Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

A review by alixcallender
Unraveling: What I Learned about Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein