Hooked : : how Crafting Saved my Life

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Call Number: 745.509 Fo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Musicians & Entertainers / Foster, Sutton
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Musicians & Entertainers / Foster, Sutton	4-week checkout	Due 05-24-2024

Introduction: Get a Hobby -- Crafting: A Family Affair -- Tomato Plants -- Basket Case -- Dada's Blanket -- Shattered Girl -- Crazy Family DNA -- Christian's Mom's Christmas Cookies -- Failed Projects -- Divorce Blanket -- Badass: An Ode to Patti Lupone -- You Rock -- Owl Blanket -- Character Portraits -- Prayers to the Fertility Gods in Copic Markers -- Baby Blankets: Making My Own Patterns -- Hooked: Crafting a Book about Crafting.
In these intimate stories and reflections about how crafting has kept her sane while navigating the highs and lows of family, love, and show business, Tony Award-winner and the star of TV's Younger Sutton Foster shares memorable moments - including her fraught relationship with her agoraphobic mother; a painful divorce splashed on the pages of the tabloids; her struggles with fertility; the thrills she found on the stage; her breakout TV role in Younger; and the joy of adopting her daughter, Emily. Accompanying the stories, Sutton has included crochet patterns, recipes, and so much more.

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Liked the marrying of crafting and her personal story submitted by kkjammers on June 19, 2022, 7:23pm I enjoyed reading about how Foster crocheted her way out of personal difficulties. A unique story. The author turned to crafting to help manage some of the challenges she faced in her life. Although I was unaware of her professional life, and can't relate to her as a performer, I do appreciate and understand how making something tangible with our hands for catharsis or as an expression of our current situation, may help enormously.