The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber

               The Shop on Blossom Street is the first book in the Blossom Street Series.  I have read each book in the series, and while I admit I like the older books better than the more recent, I anxiously await for each new book to come out.  Every book introduces new characters and storylines.  As the series has grown, the stories have moved off Blossom Street and there is less knitting, but it is always involved somehow.              

                There would not be a series if it were not for Lydia.  The books start with her, and in her own way she keeps everything together.  The Shop on Blossom Street begins with the opening of Lydia’s knitting shop, A Good Yarn.  It is located on Blossom Street in Seattle.  Opening the knitting shop is a big gamble, but it is one she feels she needs to take.  After beating cancer twice and the death of her father, Lydia believes it is time.

                In order to get her business off the ground, Lydia decides to offer a knitting class.  Only three women sign up for the class and they are drastically different from each other.  At first it seems as though there will not be any way for these women to get along.  Over time the women realize that why they may come from very different walks of life, they each have something to offer the others.

                This is a good book to read at any time, but it is especially so when you need to be reminded that things do work out.  It is just not always in the way one would expect.