Georgia Walker is a single mother who owns a yarn shop in Manhattan. The club consists of her daughter Dakota, a 12-year-old, who flits in and out of the club with baked goods and entrepreneurial ambitions; a widow named Anita who is Georgia's mentor; an academic named Darwin ; a 40-year-old single woman named Lucie who fools a date into getting her pregnant; an aspiring purse designer and part-time worker in the shop named Petra ; Georgia's best friend, named K.C. in her mid-40s hoping to get into law school; and Georgia's childhood friend Cat who is a wealthy wife bored to tears.

When Dakota's father, James comes back into Georgia's life, Georgia's life becomes even more hectic than it already is. James wants to spend more time with Dakota and also Georgia. Dakota loves having a dad around and loves the gifts she gets.

Anita is Georgia's sounding board and mentor. She is a widow but her children are now grown and living elsewhere. Marty the downstairs Deli owner is interested in Anita.

Darwin, Lucie, Petra and K. C. all have their own issues which the other members of the knitting club help them with.

The pattern at the end of the book is for a scarf and I would have expected to see the sweater pattern that everyone in the club was knitting. ???

This was an okay book. It seemed to me that the story has been done before and was not as smooth as it should have been.

I really really really enjoyed this book. It was one of those pick up, put down again books- but one that you really enjoying picking up again. I love how the friendships of the women from different walks of life came together to form a tight loving circle of friends who used their strengths and weaknesses to build each other up. It was really sad too, nostalgic in a way as it made me miss my Oma who loved to knit, but thankful that she taught me! But the ending was sad in a way that I was totally not expecting!

Amazing! A really interesting tale of diverse friends & relationships. Not a mystery - Chick-Lit actually (however, I do know some guys who are also reading Jacobs' series and r-e-a-l-l-y enjoying same!). Really good CL, and a pleasure to read. I found the characters well-developed & definitely interesting - we shouldn't know EVERYTHING about each character all at once. That doesn't sell books... Frankly, I think that Jacobs has 'drawn' excellent pictures of her characters - I can really visualize them, which I enjoy doing. Can hardly wait to get to Comfort Food & Knit Two (on the TBR piles in kitchen!). Why did I wait so long to read this one (bought in 2009, but it kept shifting down in the TBR pile!) ?? Looking forward to more from this author.

I really, really wanted to like this book, but in the end, it just made me mad. I have not read typical "Chic-lit" in a while, but this is really disappointing. The subject matter first of all seems to be a heap of clichés, is this book about being a struggling single mother? It is really debatable weather Georgia really is struggling considering all the help she has, but that's just my point of view. Is the book about race? Raising a child of mixed race? Women and their relationships? Discovering your roots? None of these seem to be really addressed in depth. And the writing is rather poor. Georgia is portrayed a smart, independent, successful woman, then why does she speak like a teenager? Why does she seem to behave like one??? None of the characters are developed, and most of their decisions do not make sense. Also it seems that no editor properly read this book, otherwise how could they have missed the fact that apparently in England the "passenger is on the curb-side "???? One other thing drove me crazy, and that is the fact that at least 20 times throughout the book it is repeated that Georgia has curly hair!!! Is this the only thing that can be said about the woman??? Why does it have to be repeated ad nauseam??
And speaking of nausea….the ending?? Why on earth was that necessary? All in all, I was horribly disappointed.