while my pretty one knits
the black sheep knitters maggie lucy dana suzanne and phoebe meet once a week without fail sharing the varied and colorful skeins of their lives as much as knitting tips recipes and small town gossip and creating an intricate durable pattern of friendship . now a shocking murder has peaceful plum harbor massachusetts in knots and the black sheep women must herd together to protect one of their own from a scandalous frame up . br maggie messina beloved owner of the black sheep knitting shop is thrilled to be hosting a workshop for one of her former students now a celebrity in the knitting world . but the celebration is upstaged when amanda goran the owner of the rival knitting nest is found dead in her shop on the other side of town . br maggie had reasons to dislike amanda a thorn in her side ever since maggies shop surpassed amandas in popularity . then again it wasnt hard to dislike amanda the contentious woman whose marriage was on the rocks seemed to specialize in causing misery all over town . but the pointed evidence has a detective casting a suspicious eye on maggie . she may be a whiz at knitting but can she keep the police from needling her before her shop her reputation and her circle of friends become unraveled