Knit the Season
A Friday Night Knitting Club Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The ladies of the #1 New York Times bestselling Friday Night Knitting Club return in a moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family
Whipping up chocolate-orange scones at pastry school is Dakota Walker s passion,...
Whipping up chocolate-orange scones at pastry school is Dakota Walker s passion,...
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The ladies of the #1 New York Times bestselling Friday Night Knitting Club return in a moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family Whipping up chocolate-orange scones at pastry school is Dakota Walker s passion, but she ll never give up the Friday Night Knitting Club at Walker and Daughter, the coziest yarn shop in Manhattan. The club is also a haven for Peri, Darwin, Lucie, K.C., Anita, and Catherine Dakota s dearest friends, big sisters, and sometimes surrogate mothers.
With the holidays just around the corner, the women have reason to celebrate: There s a special wedding planned for New Year s Day. And in the meantime, Dakota is finishing a sweater her mother started before she was born. As she takes on her mother s pattern, she learns that there was much more history in these stitches than she had anticipated, and to build on her mother s legacy, Dakota must become the woman she truly desires to be.
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Thanksgiving How essential to stop, reflect, be grateful. For food. For family. For subtle joys, such as the feel of soft yarn on fingertips, for the sense of ease that comes, stitch upon stitch, from following the rhythm of the pattern. Honoring the spirit of the holidays can also be a celebration of the experience of crafting.
Chapter 1
New York seemed to be a city made for celebrations, and Dakota Walker loved every moment of the holidays: from the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds breathlessly waiting for the lighting of the gigantic Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center, to the winter-themed department store windows displaying postmodern Santas, to her favorite the kickoff to a month of fun with that ruckus of a parade on Thanksgiving morning.
Dakota's grandmotherly friend Anita Lowenstein who, nearing eighty, could text almost as well as some of her college classmates had escorted Dakota to the parade when she was small. Last Thanksgiving morning, in a fit of nostalgia, the two of them bundled up in layers, chunky handmade cable-knits over cotton turtlenecks, and staked out a spot near Macy's just after sunrise to watch the river of floating cartoon characters and lip-synching pop stars and freezing but-giddy high-school marching bands flowing down Broadway. Just as it should be.
But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers on the street, in elevators, in subways were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.
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The excuse the expectation to bake also played a large part in her personal delight. Crumbly, melty shortbread cookies and iced chocolate-orange scones and whipped French vanilla cream cakes and sugary butter tarts: November through December was about whipping and folding and blending and sampling. Though she'd spent only one semester at pastry school so far, Dakota was eager to try out the new techniques she'd learned.
Still, she hadn't stopped to consider how it might feel to roll out crust, to pare fruit, to make a meal, back in what was her childhood home, as she adjusted her bulging backpack, groceries in each hand, and climbed the steep stairs two floors up to Peri's efficient little apartment situated one floor above the yarn shop her mother had started long ago, the tiny shop the shelves packed to bursting with yarns fuzzy, nubbly, itchy, and angel-soft, its walls a kaleidoscope of cocooning pastels and luxurious jewel shades that Georgia Walker had willed to her only child and that Dakota had, finally, come to truly appreciate.
The white-painted cupboard door creaked loudly as she opened it, surprising not because of the unpleasant volume but because Dakota realized, in that moment, she had forgotten the quirks of this particular kitchen. At the same time, overflowing bundles of yarn spilled burgundies and cobalts, wools and acrylics, lightweights and doubleknits from the shelves, tumbled to the grocery bags she'd just set on the counter, and then bounced to the linoleum tile floor below. Almost as an afterthought, a tidy pile of plush plum cashmere dropped noiselessly through the air, just missing her head, and landed directly into the small stainless sink.
"This isn't a kitchen!" cried Dakota, reaching out her arms as widely as was possible in her heavyweight white winter coat, trying to hug yarn and food and prevent all of it from rolling off the edge. "It's a storage facility!"
She hesitated. What she'd wanted was simply to find a bowl, something in which to pile up the apples she'd purchased, and she'd approached Peri
The excuse the expectation to bake also played a large part in her personal delight. Crumbly, melty shortbread cookies and iced chocolate-orange scones and whipped French vanilla cream cakes and sugary butter tarts: November through December was about whipping and folding and blending and sampling. Though she'd spent only one semester at pastry school so far, Dakota was eager to try out the new techniques she'd learned.
Still, she hadn't stopped to consider how it might feel to roll out crust, to pare fruit, to make a meal, back in what was her childhood home, as she adjusted her bulging backpack, groceries in each hand, and climbed the steep stairs two floors up to Peri's efficient little apartment situated one floor above the yarn shop her mother had started long ago, the tiny shop the shelves packed to bursting with yarns fuzzy, nubbly, itchy, and angel-soft, its walls a kaleidoscope of cocooning pastels and luxurious jewel shades that Georgia Walker had willed to her only child and that Dakota had, finally, come to truly appreciate.
The white-painted cupboard door creaked loudly as she opened it, surprising not because of the unpleasant volume but because Dakota realized, in that moment, she had forgotten the quirks of this particular kitchen. At the same time, overflowing bundles of yarn spilled burgundies and cobalts, wools and acrylics, lightweights and doubleknits from the shelves, tumbled to the grocery bags she'd just set on the counter, and then bounced to the linoleum tile floor below. Almost as an afterthought, a tidy pile of plush plum cashmere dropped noiselessly through the air, just missing her head, and landed directly into the small stainless sink.
"This isn't a kitchen!" cried Dakota, reaching out her arms as widely as was possible in her heavyweight white winter coat, trying to hug yarn and food and prevent all of it from rolling off the edge. "It's a storage facility!"
She hesitated. What she'd wanted was simply to find a bowl, something in which to pile up the apples she'd purchased, and she'd approached Peri
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Autoren-Porträt von Kate Jacobs
Kate Jacobs is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Friday Night Knitting Club, Knit Two, Knit the Season, and Comfort Food.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kate Jacobs
- 2010, Repr., 336 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 0425236765
- ISBN-13: 9780425236765
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Praise for Knit the SeasonThe spirit of the season permeates every page. USA Today
Readers who anticipate comforting, heartwarming stories from Jacobs s series will not be disappointed: curling up with a Friday Night Knitting Club novel is like visiting with old friends...This holiday entry is sure to please fans and leave them hungry for the next installment. Booklist
The newest addition to Kate Jacobs s immensely popular Friday Night Knitting Club series...[gives readers a] warm, fuzzy feeling. Family Circle
More Praise for the Friday Night Knitting Club Series
Like Steel Magnolias set in Manhattan. USA Today
The book's great worth reading now. Glamour
Impossible to put down. Booklist
As comforting, enveloping and warm as a well-crafted afghan. Publishers Weekly
Fans [will] eagerly snuggle in to see how the friends piece together their knitting projects while finding solace in one another s company. People
Fans of Debbie Macomber s Blossom Street series will find much to enjoy here. Library Journal
It's all here dating, love, motherhood, career, estrangement, death and, especially, friendships that span generations...[A] quick, fun, poignant yarn. The Seattle Times
Knitters will enjoy seeing the healing power of stitching put into words. Its simplicity and soothing repetition leave room for conversation, laughter, revelations, and friendship just like the beauty shop in Steel Magnolias. Detroit Free Press
An absolutely beautiful, deeply moving portrait of female friendship. New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah
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