Knit Two - Kate Jacobs

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Title: Knit Two
Author: Kate Jacobs
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 235
Date read: August, 2010

At the Manhattan knitting store founded by Georgia Walker, the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club - including Georgia's daughter Dakota, now a college freshman - continue to rely on each other for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventy something Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. As the club's projects - an afghan, baby booties, a wedding coat - are pieced together, so is their understanding of the patterns underlying the stresses and joys of being a mother, wife, daughter, and friend. Because it isn't the difficulty of the garment that makes you a great knitter: it's the care and attention you bring to the craft - as well as how you adapt to surprises.

Not quite as good as "Friday Night Knitting Club", but then sequels seldom are. And it's still a very enjoyable and comforting read. As usual it made me want to knit, so I guess I'll have to go out and replenish my stash after all ;) But to me, its true merit is in the descriptions of the friendships between the women of the knitting club. From Saving Graces to The Sweetgum Knit Lit Society that aspect never ceases to appeal to me.