More laughs and thought-provoking commentary. Very funny, even for the less experienced knitter. The Yarn Harlot is great!

My review can't possibly do justice to the eloquence of this woman's writings. She is a wife and a mother and a knitter and a beautiful soul. She helps me to make sense of my crazy life, and to feel that my obsession with yarn is a normal and natural thing. And she makes me laugh.

I love this book. So easy to pick up and put down as time permits. It is lighthearted and funny.

Another winner from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee!

This is a pretty good book, and has some funny insights in it, but it is not as funny as Stephanie's first book was. However, I would purchase it again, and would definitely recommend it as a good read for all fiber enthusiasts. And why don't we have a radio show????

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee is the funniest lady I know. She truly is the Erma Bombeck of knitting. I was thrilled to get this book as early as I did so that I could take it to the book signing and actually meet Steph and get it autographed.

If you have a chance to read her books - any of them - or hear her live, do it. Your sides will hurt from laughing.

It's an easy carry-around book, too. Small format and broken into short essays for short-term reading. Try it.

I had expected this book to be like the Stitch and Bitch books with trendy and/or practical patterns and amusing comments thrown in. I was soon over that disappointment. After all, like most knitters, I have plenty of patterns that I have not completed--sufficient to last me many years into retirement. The author, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, has delightfully knit together this collection of essays about herself, motherhood, yarns, and knitting. I particularly liked what she wrote about her daughters. I spoke to my daughter last evening and checked to see if she was still knitting. She lives in a warm and humid climate, and she acknowledged that it has sufficiently cooled off that she is returning to her knitting and has found a knowledgable knitting friend. This was such a delightful little book--a perfect "just because" gift. I'll package up the book with a couple skeins of interesting yarn and mail it to my daughter. Maybe she too will prop it up as she is eating lunch and read one of the short chapters. (So far I have found it impossible to knit and eat at the same time. )

This is a pretty little book and very enjoyable to read and share.

I am at the half way mark and I can say this is a very entertaining book.
For a knitter, all of these situations, anecdotes are totally relatable to. Most of this has happened to a Knitter at some time !
For those who loved the previous books by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, you will not regret your purchase.
For those who love this one, you will probably end up buying the previous ones.
I'm a fan of the writting, the subject matter, the lay-out of the book (really beautiful and almost delicate)

Just when I had Stephanie pegged as a writer of humor,(Just visit her website!) she pens this thoughtful, insight little book. I enjoyed reading it, and do not regret adding it to my knitting library...and yet....
I wanted to LAUGH!! The kind of "wake the hubby up because I am shaking the bed laughing" read. With a cover so like her first book, I was hoping for a repeat of that winner! There is some funny stuff, but I left reading Free Range Knitter feeling sad. I can see where she's going with the essays in the book and building her theme, and it is beautifully crafted. It just wasn't what I thought it would be or what I had hoped for.
While my copy of The Yarn Harlot is tattered from frequent reading, I rather doubt that I will reread this one.

Stephanie's newest book leaves me unable to find words to match those inside the book. I doubt I can do this book justice.

This fine book is about knitting, yes, but really not so much about knitting as about what happens when knitting is part of life. The stories and essays glide and ripple and twist, carrying the reader pellmell into intimate contact with men, women, children, animals, ideas, and humor - and always the light of knitting is leaking through, shining its innocence, tough love, and grace onto stumbling humanity.

Stephanie is a master at fostering reflection through story-telling. The first story, about a very young knitter named Annabelle, holds many layers of meaning about incredibly important things. And the last story, about a very old knitter, who needed no yarn to knit, let me close the book with a sense of fulfilment. We knitters, as well as non-knitters (who would love this book) are so very lucky to have someone like Stephanie spinning tales for us, with her sharp and shiny wit rising so naturally from an honest heart. I am grateful.