Knit the Season — Kate Jacobs

For college-age Dakota Walker, whipping up butter tarts and chocolate-orange scones at pastry school has become her passion, but she'll never give up knitting and gabbing on Friday nights at Walker and Daughter. The coziest yarn shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Walker and Daughter has also been a haven for Peri, Darwin, Lucie, KC, Anita, and Catherine - the women who have become Dakota's dearest friends, her big sisters, and sometimes her surrogate mothers.

With the holidays are just around the corner, the women have even more reason to celebrate: there's a special wedding planned for New Year's Day. In the meantime, Dakota is working to finish a sweater her mother started before Dakota was born. As she takes on her mother's pattern, she learns from her family and friends that there was much more history in these stitches than she had anticipated, and that to build on her mother's legacy, Dakota must allow herself to become the woman she truly desires to be...