Here she deftly handles the relentless labor of sheep shearing, yarn dying, even child minding, with all those sticky fingers and sodden, sagging diapers.
In Peru, you can visit an alpaca farm where yarn is created, died, woven and sold.
In the film, McDormand's Marge is contacted out of the blue by an old school friend who spins her a yarn about how his wife has died from leukaemia.
So I'm stuck spinning the same old yarns: when I was 4 and my brother was 10 a priest died in my brother's arms at the end of mass.
Diana Pullein-Thompson, who has died aged 90, was the author of 30 pony books – ripping yarns, full of adventure, in which plucky young heroines overcome daunting challenges and turn feeble nags into champions.
By Anthony Lane June 10, 2011 The news arrived, this morning, that Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor traveller, author, soldier, swimmer, gluttonous reader, yarn-spinner, handsome devil, and as free a spirit as you could ever hope to meet has died at the age of ninety-six.
The news arrived, this morning, that Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor — traveller, author, soldier, swimmer, gluttonous reader, yarn-spinner, handsome devil, and as free a spirit as you could ever hope to meet — has died at the age of ninety-six.
After their father died, the family was poor... Benetton is the first company to make garments, then dye them (versus dying yarn which enables them to maintain the latest color trends.
He must have died earlier in the year, probably from a fall, which would explain his injuries without any need to bring in yarns of jealousy or flight.
Here is a bestseller that by rights should die off the page: a detective yarn told by a teenage boy who appears to have Asperger's.
