Author: Hettie
Bell
Imprint: Carina
Press (Carina Adores)
Genre: Contemporary
Romance, New Adult
Romantic Leads:
Female/Female
On-Sale:
March 30, 2021
Format:
Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.99 US
ISBN:
9781335688002
Book Description: Some people can’t wait to have babies. They’re ready for it—with their perfect lives and their pregnancy glow…
Poppy Adams doesn’t have a perfect life, and she wasn’t ready for the positive test. An unexpected baby—Poppy’s unexpected baby—won’t exactly have her family doing cartwheels. But she’s making the right choice.
Right?
Poppy’s totally got this. She just needs a
little encouragement, and a knitting group is the perfect place to start. Baby
blankets, booties, tiny little hats—small steps toward her new life. But she
feels like she’s already dropped a stitch when she discovers the knitting group
is led by the charismatic Rhiannon.
It’s not exactly a great time to meet the woman who might just be the love of her life. While the group easily shuffles around to make room for Poppy, it’s not so easy fitting her life and Rhiannon’s together. With the weeks counting down until her baby arrives, Poppy’s going to have to decide for herself what truly makes a family.
Read on for an excerpt from Knit, Purl, a Baby and a Girl.
It doesn’t take long for
everybody in the group to set aside their own projects to focus on me and mine.
Grace
has my ball of yarn in her hands, twisting the strand between her fingers
critically. “If you’re knitting for a baby, you should really consider a nice
bamboo…”
Louise
is scrutinizing my choice of project. “You know, I started with dishcloths,
then graduated to scarves. It’s not as glamorous, but it does let you get the
fundamentals down.”
“Oh,
my, no.” Mary flips the free pattern card I picked up in the craft store and
scans the back with critical eyes. “You don’t want to do this, this is for a
completely different weight of yarn than what you’ve got here. Where did you
pick this up? They should be putting these patterns next to the suggested yarn. This
one calls for fingering. What
you
need to do is get an account on Ravelry and find a pattern that’s been
user-rated so you know it’s accurate and suitable for your skill level, and do
that. You can search by yarn weight on there, too. This yarn is a DK…” She
pulls out her phone, trailing off as she opens her web browser.
Damian,
who has been sitting silently so far, takes this chance to finally speak up.
“Do you have needles?” he asks plainly, no judgment in his tone. Nobody else
has bothered with that crucial detail to this point.
Now
those, at least, I do have. I reach into my purse and pull out the needles I
scavenged from my last failed scarf project. I hold them up for the group’s
inspection proudly.
“Poppy,
no!” they say in unison, and even Damian joins in their exclamation of dismay.
“These will never work!”
My
shoulders slump. “What? Why?”
Louise
clucks at me. “Much too big! Too long for a tiny baby pattern and too thick for
this yarn. You’re going to end up with stretched out knitting full of gaps and
holes.”
The
familiar urge to just give up and quit hits me hard and fast, like a gut punch.
I gust out a breath, slumping in my seat.
A
hand closes around my shoulder. Rhiannon. “Hey, don’t feel bad. First time I
tried to knit, I got my needles secondhand from the thrift store and
accidentally bought two different sizes.” She laughs and shakes her head.
“Here. If you don’t mind that they’re not high-tech Addi Turbos, you can borrow
some needles from me.”
“She needs a pattern
first,” Mary puts in. “And personally I think she should start by knitting
mittens before she graduates to booties.”
“I
guess that sounds all right.” I know they’re just trying to help, but I feel
overwhelmed and outnumbered. But what would the alternative be? For them to sit
there focused on their own projects, socializing with each other and ignoring
me as I struggle?
It’s
Rhiannon, once again, who calms the chaos, both the stuff going on around us
and the stuff in my head. “Okay, okay, give the girl some space, now. Mary, can
you search Ravelry for a pattern for a set of mittens and booties? And Grace and Louise, can you wind
Poppy’s skein real quick so she doesn’t get stuck untangling yarn barf on her
very first project?” My fellow stitch n’ bitch members nod, immediately
turning to their tasks. She turns to me. “I left my straight needles with the
rest of my stuff back at my place. It’s just a short walk from here. You wanna
come and keep me company?”
“You’ll need a size five needle by the
looks,” Mary calls, eyes glued to her phone.
Rhiannon looks at me expectantly, awaiting my
answer. I get the sense that if I said no to her invitation, she’d be totally
cool about it. But I don’t want to say no.
“Sure, yeah. Can I leave my stuff here?”
“We’re not leaving any time soon,” Damian
flaps a hand. “Go, go. Sooner you go the sooner you get back, sooner you get
back the sooner you can get started, and the sooner you get started the more
time you have knitting with people who can pick up your dropped stitches.”
“Gotcha.” I nod. “Thanks.”
“Ready?” Rhiannon asks. She
grabs a cookie for the road, stuffing it halfway into her mouth and holding it there
comically.
I
fight down the sudden image of myself biting that half a cookie right out from
under her nose.
Wow,
do I need some air. And some semblance of hormonal balance.
Instead,
I’m getting alone time with Rhiannon.
Crash and burn time, here I come.
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About Hettie Bell
Hettie Bell grew up in small towns in New Brunswick and British Columbia, and now lives outside Edmonton Alberta with her family. She first fell for Highland historicals as a preteen, and that love deepened as the romance genre grew more diverse and queer. A proud bisexual woman, she’s honored to write all the happy endings she never thought she’d get to read. When she’s not writing, she's knitting one of the at least three projects she has on her needles at any given time.
Website: https://www.hettiebell.com/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/HettieBelleau
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Carina Adores is home to highly romantic contemporary love stories featuring beloved romance tropes, where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters.
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