Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair : The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit after He Split by Laurie Perry download book MOBI, FB2, PDF
9780757305917 English 0757305911 '?Watch out, Bridget Jones: There's a new singleton in town, and she's got needles! This hilarious book chronicles the life of a newly divorced woman, as she struggles, dates, and knits her way back to sanity.'? --Knit.1 magazine If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to ?get his creativity back.'? (Whatever the hell that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem? ?I was a thirty-something woman living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace appliqués. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100 percent of some road I did not want to walk down.'? Yet, surprisingly, it's knitting that saves her and emboldens her to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the ins and outs of the modern dating scene. ?Dating has changed in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft, and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he'll ask you to read his screenplay.'? And such is life in this quirky, irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon, www.crazyaunt purl.com, one of the most successful online diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base of enthusiastic readers. But don't worry, you don't have to knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of faith. We've all been there: Pass the wine. Laurie Perry has written for the Los Angeles Daily News. She has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Vogueknitting. Visit her website at www.crazyauntpurl.com., A moving, hilarious, and irreverent glimpse into a woman's life after her marriage ends--and her knitting hobby begins!Over 50 million Americans knit. That's a lot of blankets, scarves, and sweaters. But there's only one how-to-knitting book that's edgy, hilarious, and informative: "Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair". One part self-help, one part how-to, this quirky "keeping-you-in-stitches" new release provides a brutally honest glimpse into a woman's first year of divorce and how her new found hobby--knitting--transforms her. Or, at the least, keeps her hands too busy to dial her ex to give him an unsolicited piece of her mind.Written by Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, whose wildly popular blog (www.crazyauntpurl.com) attracts thousands of visitors a day, "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair" is the ultimate spin-off. Her blog was featured in The Wall Street Journal and cited as newsworthy by Interwave Knits, a premiere knitting magazine. Crazy Aunt Purl already has a huge fan base and now with the release of "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair", fans get a welcome dose of humor as well as some pretty cool knitting projects.Features step-by-step knitting projects to suit all levels of knitters with accompanying wine selection, from beginning to experienced, along with 4-colour photos. Readers will lean how to make:*A leopard-spotted Kleenex box cover (for a just-dumped crying jag)*A wide-brimmed roll-down hat for bad hair days*The every-new-knitter-knits-a-scarf*Flower pom-pom (if men don't bring you flowers, knit your own)*Felted overnight bag (for when you're ready to date again), After her husband of eight years left her to A'get his creativity back,A? Crazy Aunt Purl took up knitting, not to unleash her Inner Domestic Goddess, but to keep from obsessing over him. She soon became addicted to knittingA'from fondling new yarns at JoAnn Fabrics to putting down the Cheetos in favor of attending a knitting group. By A'picking up the sticks,A? she picked up her life. Here, in this spin-off of her wildly popular blog, www.crazyauntpurl.com (10,000 visitors a day!), she chronicles how she gets her groove back . . . while knitting some really cool (and really botched) stuff in the process. Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the irreverent first-person narrative of Crazy Aunt Purl facing life as a contemporary cat-loving, divorced, knitting-obsessed female. Readers will laugh and cry with her as she gets dumped (A'cast offA? in knitting terms), gains weight (A'casts onA?), and finds new friends, and her true self, as she learns to knit. For beginning to off-beat knitters, each group of vignettes showcases an original knitting recipe, from the quirky to the practical: A leopard-spotted Kleenex box cover (for a just-dumped crying jag) A wide-brimmed roll-down hat (for bad hair days) The every-new-knitter-knits-a-scarf scarf The Coworker scarf Felted drink coasters Flower pom-pom (if men don't bring you flowers, knit your own) Easy wine bag The Knitted Cat Thingmajig (or, the "Caterpiller") stripey knitted cat tunnel Felted overnight bag (for when you're ready to date again), Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the irreverent first-person narrative of a contemporary, displaced Southern woman facing life after her husband leaves her to "get his creativity back." With infectious humor and heart, she explains how she gets her groove back after finding herself alone in a rented house with four cats, a mountain of boxes and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem. Reeling from the sting of divorce, it is the hobby of knitting -- and the adventures it leads her to -- that keep her from "directing traffic in her nightgown." Readers will laugh and cry with her as she gets dumped, makes new friends, gains weight (aka The Divorce Diet), travels abroad, and navigates the ins and outs of the modern dating scene. With her sense of humor and broken heart, she chronicles how "picking up sticks" helps her to pick up her life. Each group of vignettes features original knitting recipes with patterns and color photos, ranging from beginner scarves, her Quick Felted Bracelet Bag, an Easy Roll-Brim Hat and a striped cat tunnel called "The CATerpillar.", If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to 'get his creativity back.' (Whatever that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem?"I was a thirty-something woman living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace appliqués. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100 percent of some road I did not want to walk down."Yet, surprisingly, it's knitting that saves her and emboldens her to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the ins and outs of the modern dating scene."Dating has changed in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft, and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he'll ask you to read his screenplay."And such is life in this quirky, irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon, www.crazyauntpurl.com, one of the most successful online diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base of enthusiastic readers. But don't worry, you don't have to knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of faith.We've all been there: Pass the wine., The blog phenomenon is finally a must-read book--A moving, hilarious glimpse into a woman's life after her marriage end...and her knitting hobby (along with a new life) begins.Over 50 million Americans knit. That's a lot of blankets, scarves, and sweaters. But there's only one how-to-knitting book that's edgy, hilarious, and informative: "Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair". One part self-help, one part how-to, this quirky "keeping-you-in-stitches" new release provides a brutally honest glimpse into a woman's first year of divorce and how her new found hobby--knitting--transforms her. Or, at the least, keeps her hands too busy to dial her ex to give him an unsolicited piece of her mind.Written by Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, whose wildly popular blog (www.crazyauntpurl.com) attracts thousands of visitors a day, "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair" is the ultimate spin-off. Her blog was featured in The Wall Street Journal and cited as newsworthy by Interwave Knits, a premiere knitting magazine. Crazy Aunt Purl already has a huge fan base and now with the release of "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair", fans get a welcome dose of humor as well as some pretty cool knitting projects.Features step-by-step knitting projects to suit all levels of knitters with accompanying wine selection, from beginning to experienced, along with 4-colour photos. Readers will lean how to make:*A leopard-spotted Kleenex box cover (for a just-dumped crying jag)*A wide-brimmed roll-down hat for bad hair days*The every-new-knitter-knits-a-scarf*Flower pom-pom (if men don't bring you flowers, knit your own)*Felted overnight bag (for when you're ready to date again)
9780757305917 English 0757305911 '?Watch out, Bridget Jones: There's a new singleton in town, and she's got needles! This hilarious book chronicles the life of a newly divorced woman, as she struggles, dates, and knits her way back to sanity.'? --Knit.1 magazine If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to ?get his creativity back.'? (Whatever the hell that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem? ?I was a thirty-something woman living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace appliqués. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100 percent of some road I did not want to walk down.'? Yet, surprisingly, it's knitting that saves her and emboldens her to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the ins and outs of the modern dating scene. ?Dating has changed in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft, and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he'll ask you to read his screenplay.'? And such is life in this quirky, irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon, www.crazyaunt purl.com, one of the most successful online diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base of enthusiastic readers. But don't worry, you don't have to knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of faith. We've all been there: Pass the wine. Laurie Perry has written for the Los Angeles Daily News. She has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Vogueknitting. Visit her website at www.crazyauntpurl.com., A moving, hilarious, and irreverent glimpse into a woman's life after her marriage ends--and her knitting hobby begins!Over 50 million Americans knit. That's a lot of blankets, scarves, and sweaters. But there's only one how-to-knitting book that's edgy, hilarious, and informative: "Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair". One part self-help, one part how-to, this quirky "keeping-you-in-stitches" new release provides a brutally honest glimpse into a woman's first year of divorce and how her new found hobby--knitting--transforms her. Or, at the least, keeps her hands too busy to dial her ex to give him an unsolicited piece of her mind.Written by Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, whose wildly popular blog (www.crazyauntpurl.com) attracts thousands of visitors a day, "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair" is the ultimate spin-off. Her blog was featured in The Wall Street Journal and cited as newsworthy by Interwave Knits, a premiere knitting magazine. Crazy Aunt Purl already has a huge fan base and now with the release of "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair", fans get a welcome dose of humor as well as some pretty cool knitting projects.Features step-by-step knitting projects to suit all levels of knitters with accompanying wine selection, from beginning to experienced, along with 4-colour photos. Readers will lean how to make:*A leopard-spotted Kleenex box cover (for a just-dumped crying jag)*A wide-brimmed roll-down hat for bad hair days*The every-new-knitter-knits-a-scarf*Flower pom-pom (if men don't bring you flowers, knit your own)*Felted overnight bag (for when you're ready to date again), After her husband of eight years left her to A'get his creativity back,A? Crazy Aunt Purl took up knitting, not to unleash her Inner Domestic Goddess, but to keep from obsessing over him. She soon became addicted to knittingA'from fondling new yarns at JoAnn Fabrics to putting down the Cheetos in favor of attending a knitting group. By A'picking up the sticks,A? she picked up her life. Here, in this spin-off of her wildly popular blog, www.crazyauntpurl.com (10,000 visitors a day!), she chronicles how she gets her groove back . . . while knitting some really cool (and really botched) stuff in the process. Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the irreverent first-person narrative of Crazy Aunt Purl facing life as a contemporary cat-loving, divorced, knitting-obsessed female. Readers will laugh and cry with her as she gets dumped (A'cast offA? in knitting terms), gains weight (A'casts onA?), and finds new friends, and her true self, as she learns to knit. For beginning to off-beat knitters, each group of vignettes showcases an original knitting recipe, from the quirky to the practical: A leopard-spotted Kleenex box cover (for a just-dumped crying jag) A wide-brimmed roll-down hat (for bad hair days) The every-new-knitter-knits-a-scarf scarf The Coworker scarf Felted drink coasters Flower pom-pom (if men don't bring you flowers, knit your own) Easy wine bag The Knitted Cat Thingmajig (or, the "Caterpiller") stripey knitted cat tunnel Felted overnight bag (for when you're ready to date again), Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the irreverent first-person narrative of a contemporary, displaced Southern woman facing life after her husband leaves her to "get his creativity back." With infectious humor and heart, she explains how she gets her groove back after finding herself alone in a rented house with four cats, a mountain of boxes and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem. Reeling from the sting of divorce, it is the hobby of knitting -- and the adventures it leads her to -- that keep her from "directing traffic in her nightgown." Readers will laugh and cry with her as she gets dumped, makes new friends, gains weight (aka The Divorce Diet), travels abroad, and navigates the ins and outs of the modern dating scene. With her sense of humor and broken heart, she chronicles how "picking up sticks" helps her to pick up her life. Each group of vignettes features original knitting recipes with patterns and color photos, ranging from beginner scarves, her Quick Felted Bracelet Bag, an Easy Roll-Brim Hat and a striped cat tunnel called "The CATerpillar.", If you've ever been dumped, duped, or three minutes from crazy, you'll love Crazy Aunt Purl. Side-splittingly funny and profoundly moving, Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair is the true-life misadventures of Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, a slightly neurotic, displaced Southerner trying to create a new life after her husband leaves her to 'get his creativity back.' (Whatever that means.) But will she get her groove back in a tiny rented apartment, with a mountain of boxes, visible panty lines, and a slight wine-and-Cheetos problem?"I was a thirty-something woman living alone with four cats. I was probably going to be divorced. I was on the short bus to crazy. I pictured my grandmother making hoop-skirted yarn cozies for the toilet paper. I pictured myself making doilies for furniture that I did not own. I saw my cats wearing knitted hats with lace appliqués. From my vantage point, knitting seemed like 100 percent of some road I did not want to walk down."Yet, surprisingly, it's knitting that saves her and emboldens her to become fully engaged in life again--to discover new friends; to take risks, however scary; and to navigate the ins and outs of the modern dating scene."Dating has changed in a decade. Now there is a higher chance of meeting someone who has an internet porn addiction than someone who has a job. In Los Angeles, your dinner companion might have served time in Pelican Bay or run a meth lab. Or, worst of all, he might spend all night talking about his agent, his craft, and what it means to grow as an actor. Then he'll ask you to read his screenplay."And such is life in this quirky, irreverent memoir, a spin-off of the blog phenomenon, www.crazyauntpurl.com, one of the most successful online diaries in history, exploding to an international fan base of enthusiastic readers. But don't worry, you don't have to knit to love Aunt Purl. You just have to know what it feels like to have loved, to have lost, or to have taken a leap of faith.We've all been there: Pass the wine., The blog phenomenon is finally a must-read book--A moving, hilarious glimpse into a woman's life after her marriage end...and her knitting hobby (along with a new life) begins.Over 50 million Americans knit. That's a lot of blankets, scarves, and sweaters. But there's only one how-to-knitting book that's edgy, hilarious, and informative: "Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair". One part self-help, one part how-to, this quirky "keeping-you-in-stitches" new release provides a brutally honest glimpse into a woman's first year of divorce and how her new found hobby--knitting--transforms her. Or, at the least, keeps her hands too busy to dial her ex to give him an unsolicited piece of her mind.Written by Laurie Perry, aka Crazy Aunt Purl, whose wildly popular blog (www.crazyauntpurl.com) attracts thousands of visitors a day, "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair" is the ultimate spin-off. Her blog was featured in The Wall Street Journal and cited as newsworthy by Interwave Knits, a premiere knitting magazine. Crazy Aunt Purl already has a huge fan base and now with the release of "Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair", fans get a welcome dose of humor as well as some pretty cool knitting projects.Features step-by-step knitting projects to suit all levels of knitters with accompanying wine selection, from beginning to experienced, along with 4-colour photos. Readers will lean how to make:*A leopard-spotted Kleenex box cover (for a just-dumped crying jag)*A wide-brimmed roll-down hat for bad hair days*The every-new-knitter-knits-a-scarf*Flower pom-pom (if men don't bring you flowers, knit your own)*Felted overnight bag (for when you're ready to date again)