IN THE MEDIA
Podcasts
Junction Fiber Mill, Millcast with Clara Parkes (February 27, 2024)
Articles of Interest with Avery Trufelman (October 11, 2023)
The Long Thread (June 2023)
A Verb for Keeping Warm, Episode 12, A Slower, More Mysterious Contemplative Soltice with Clara Parkes (December 21, 2022)
Ja-Wol, Episode 23, A Smaller Life: Clara Parkes on all things wool industry & community (December 1, 2021)
Gist Yarn, Episode 94, An Exploration of the Vanishing American Wool Industry with Clara Parkes (January 14, 2020)
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Fruity Knitting, Episode 94, Clara Parkes Vanishing Fleece (January 2020)
The American Scholar, Smarty Pants Podcast, A Good Yarn (November 8, 2019)
Very Pink, Episode 67, Clara Parkes and Stashing Yarn (2018)
CRAFT-ish with Vickie Howell, Episode 3, NYT Best-selling Author, Clara Parkes (2016)
Squam Art Workshops, Episode 14, Morning on the Dock with Clara Parkes (2016)
CraftSanity Podcast, Episode 181, Clara Parkes chats about her new book “Knitlandia,” Clara Yarn and life exfoliation (February 18, 2016)
KnitFM, Episode 14, Breed Specific Wool (December 14, 2015)
Pompom Magazine, Pomcast 11, With Clara Parkes (March 30, 2015)
The Yarniacs Podcast, Episode 47, Clara Parkes (October 18, 2013)
In Print
In these occasional podcasts, I talk with people around the world whose lives touch, or have been touched, by wool.
Illustrations MDK staff artist Hannah Jones.
Swapped Skeins, A Miss Clarple Mystery
The story of Miss Clarice Clarple, fiber sleuth, Modern Daily Knitting.
Chapter 1: A Visitor | Listen
Chapter 2: The Arrival | Listen
Chapter 3: A Car in the Night | Listen
Chapter 4: A Bag Goes Missing | Listen
Chapter 5: Enter the Police | Listen
Chapter 6: ….
Chatper 7: ….
Chapter 8: ….
Chapter 9: ….
MDK: Modern Daily Knitting: “First Person” monthly column
Life with Wool in 2026
01/14/26: New Year, New Cake
Life with Wool in 2024-25
09/12/24: Our Journey Begins
10/21/24: The Great Textiles Transhumance
11/11/24: Bring on the Blanket Forts
12/09/24: Maker’s Month
01/13/25: Only Bad Clothing
02/12/25: Bundle Up with Style and Substance
Vogue Knitting (Winter 2021-22): Channel Your Knowledge: Clara Parkes, The Wool Channel
Publisher’s Weekly: The Politics of Yarn: PW Talks with Clara Parkes
NPR: Ravelry, The Knitting Website, Bans Trump Talk and Patterns
Times Literary Supplement: Yarn
Inside Hook: The 80 Best Single-Operator Newsletters
Wall St. Journal: Fiber Optics: Wool Lovers Battle Animal-Rights Crowd Over Sheep Shearing
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03/12/25: Counting Sheep
04/09/25: Guess Who Came to Dinner
05/07/25: Three Bags Full
06/09/25: Fleece Among the Flowers
07/09/25: Perpetual Sunscreen and AC
08/11/25: Dog Days, Wool Days
09/10/25: Glad Gatherings
10/08/25: Hold Me Closer, Tiny Blanket
11/10/25: Orange You Glad It’s November
12/10/25: Other Games of Wool
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Washington Post: Knitlandia Review
Reader’s Digest: 50 Best Summer Reads of All Time
Esquire: Know Your Wool
NY Mag: Tell Me Everything You Know About Wool
Heifer International: Celebrity Knitter Talks Yarn, Work-Life Balance and Traveling the World
Modern Farmer: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Wool But Were Afraid to Ask
Farm and Dairy: Fleeced: A Social Media Post about Duluth Trading Goes Viral
Tri-State Livestock News: Duluth Trading Taken to Task Over Wool Comment
Associated Press: Shop Local Movement Drives Sales of American-Made Yarn
Vogue Knitting: Twenty Minutes with Clara Parkes
Interweave Knits: Clara Parkes, the Yarn Seer
Radio
BBC Newshour (starting at the 40-minute mark)
Leonard Lopate (WNYC): Please Explain Wool
Wisconsin Public Radio: Knitting as a Lens Through Which to See the World (2016); The Yarn Whisperer (2013)
Television / Radio
KATU TV’s Afternoon Live (October 2019)
Vanishing Fleece Reading at Strand Books (October 2019)
Knitlandia reading at Strand Books (February 2016)