Michelle Edwards
Michelle Edwards is an author and illustrator of many award-winning books for children, one book for adults, and nearly one hundred essays and cards for knitters. Her picture book, A Hat for Mrs. Goldman: A Story About Knitting and Love, illustrated by G. Brian Karas, received four starred reviews, a Sydney Taylor Silver Medal, a Wilde Award, and was both a Hicklebee’s Book of the Year and a Junior Library Guild selection. Her other titles include: Chicken Man (National Jewish Book Award), Room for the Baby, Stinky Stern Forever (Gryphon Award, Blue Crab Award), and A Knitter’s Home Companion, an adult title. In her newest book, Me and the Boss: A Story About Mending and Love illustrated by April Harrison, a boy learns to sew and discovers he can mend a special thing for someone he loves.
Michelle writes about family, friendship, and community. Her work chronicles the large and small victories and defeats of everyday life. Michelle frequently shares her paintings and process on Instagram (hashtag #studioscrawls), Facebook, and her website.
Michelle grew up in Troy, New York and now lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she shares, with her husband, a house full of books, yarn, and the artifacts of their three daughters’ childhoods.
Contributions From Michelle Edwards
Knitter’s Notebook: Keep Looking at Your Hands
On stitching, and sticking close to the joy of our collective victories.
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Knitter’s Notebook: Waiting Room Knitting
A personal and hopeful account about how knitting comforts and fortifies.
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Knitter’s Notebook: These Times We’re Living In
Keeping track, knitting on.
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Knitter’s Notebook: For the January Baby
Many hands make light work.
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Knitter’s Notebook: Warm Hats and Good Friends
Knitting can bring forth wonders.
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Knitter’s Notebook: Knit On and Model Calm
Knitting to keep yourself—and the whole checkout line—calm.
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Knitter’s Notebook: How the Needles Hug the Wool
It is a kind of love, is it not?
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The Little Yarn Store Around the Corner
Sometimes happiness is hiding in plain sight, on the way to the Metro.
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Knitter’s Notebook: The 100 Hats of Sara Sprung
A Wall Street trader is bullish on woolly hats.
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A Knitter’s Dictionary
Wool words: the made-up words that enrich our knitting lives and help us express all that we make and love.
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Knitter’s Notebook: Wool Words
Feelings about what is made for us, what we make for ourselves and others: we need words for this, right?
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Knitter’s Notebook: Portrait of a Knitter
Iowa City's Angie Jordan has a mission: to get more knitters in the world.
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Knitter’s Notebook: Knitting Courage
A pair of gloves that did more than keep hands warm.
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