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Four lives knit together....
There's a little shop on Blossom Street in Seattle. You go there to buy yarn, knitting supplies, and patterns-and now you can join a knitting class. How To Knit A Baby Blanket, that's the first lesson.
Lydia Hoffman owns the shop, which she calls A Good Yarn. It represents her dream of a new beginning, a life free from the cancer that has ravaged her twice. A life that offers a chance at love...and maybe marriage.
Jacqueline Donovan, the first woman to join the class, is estranged from her husband; her marriage has dwindled into an arrangement of separate rooms and separate lives. She disapproves of the woman married to her only son, but if she knits a baby blanket, she can at least pretend to like her pregnant daughter-in-law.
For Carol Girard, the baby blanket brings a message of hope, as she and her husband make a final attempt at in vitro pregnancy.
And tough looking Alix Townsend-that's Alix with an "i"-is learning to knit her blanket for a court-ordered community service project.
These four women, brought together by the age-old craft of knitting, make unexpected discoveries-about themselves, and each other. Discoveries that lead to love, to friendship, and acceptance, to laughter and dreams. Discoveries only women can share...

I loved this story, it's the first of hers I read and I've been reading her books as fast as I can get them since.

I was surprised at the amount of sex and reference to sex in this book! A book does NOT have to be steamy in order to be good...look at the Jane Austen books! This was a HUGE disappointment as the storyline was good.

This is a heartwarming book about four very different women who come together in a knitting class. It is classic Debbie Macomber, a compelling story that gives the reader hope for the future as each woman comes to terms with her lot in life, finds the gumption to succeed -- no matter what her aspirations -- and learns to understand and appreciate the people around her. I'd love to see the story go on to the women in the next class. I loved it!

The Shop on Blossom Street was a really good book about unlikely friends and knitting. I had never read anything by Debbie Macomber, but can't wait to read the next in the series.