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A Good Yarn (Blossom Street Series #2) by Debbie Macomber. Macomber revisits the cozy Seattle yarn store of 2004's The Shop on Blossom Street.As you read the story, you begin to feel that you personally know each character. Synopsis You might have heard about a wonderful little yarn store in downtown Seattle. Debbie Macomber can take you there! In the year since it opened, A Good Yarn has thrived -- and so has Lydia Hoffman, the owner. A lot of that is due to Brad Goetz. But when Brad's ex-wife reappears, Lydia is suddenly afraid to trust her newfound happiness. Elise Beaumont joins one of Lydia's popular knitting classes. Living with her daughter, Aurora, Elise learns that her onetime husband plans to visit and that Aurora wants a relationship with her father, regardless of how Elise feels about him. Bethanne Hamlin is facing the fallout from a divorce and joins the knitting class as the first step in her effort to recover a sense of dignity and hope. Courtney Pulanski is a depressed and overweight teenager. She's staying with her grandmother, who's trying to help by taking her to the knitting class at A Good Yarn. Four women, brought together by the craft of knitting, find companionship and comfort in each other. Who would've thought that knitting socks could change your life?Read full review
I love reading Debbie Macomber. Now she is writing a series about very special women in a knitting group. Being a knitter for years, I love reading books about knitting, as well as, a great book. This is a great book, as all of Debbie's are. You will fall in love with her characters and feel like you are there. The whole series is wonderful. Debbie is a knitter herself and now has a website with free patterns, chat about knitting and the book and has added patterns that the women have knit in her book. I loved reading this book and look forward, when I get a chance, to read the next in this series. You will love this book, I guarantee it! Make sure you can stay up all night once you start one Debbie's books.
While well written and entertaining, this book is not just a pleasant diversion. It ties (pun intended) together people, yarn, and life changes. Just as everyone deals with life situations differently, the people in this book find their own way; adapting the patterns of life just as you would for a crochet or knitting project. As an added bonus, the author includes a sock pattern that the main character teaches in her yarn shop. Any avid knitter will remember that first project. Whether a scarf, a sock, or a sweater; the coming together of a pattern will soothe your soul. I believe this book will do the same.
I got start with Twenty wishes by Debbie Macomber and enjoyed it so much that I wanted to read another book written by this author. I purchased A Good Yarn and read it in two days. Debbie Macomber is an excellent writer, her plots are down to earth and believable, just like real life. I also enjoyed the knitting instruction given in this book for the socks. I have now purchased 4 other of the Cedar Cove Series that she has written. Once I have read this entire series I intend to look into other books she has had published.
I love the mix of people, their ages, backgrounds and issues that became part of this knitting circle. So very much like real life. But I didn't buy the book because of that. I'd received the original as a trade of books friends had read and remembered that my friend Deb knitted and thought, 'I'll bet she'll love to get this book with its instructions on how to knit socks.' and after our trip to Kona, Hawaii, I had a Hawaiian cookbook to give to Bill's mother. My mistake was sending both books with Bill with verbal (not written) instructions on who was to receive what. So Deb ended up with the Hawaiian cookbook and Bill's mom ended up with A Good Yarn. Rather than take the book from Bill's mom to give to Deb, I bought another book on eBay.
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